“As prime minister, Netanyahu not only has a duty to ensure Iran doesn’t achieve a nuclear weapon, but to also preserve U.S. support, goodwill and readiness to stand by Israel,” write Mel Levine and Oded Eran.

GOP officials ignored a warning not to take a trip funded by groups tied to ‘bigoted’ rhetoric.

“No wonder Israel’s ambassador thinks he can get away with insulting the White House,” writes Peter Beinart. “He’s watched his mentor Netanyahu do it his entire career.”

In some areas, street signs only indicate the nearest Israeli settlements.

In light of physical assaults and abuses in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, some Palestinian journalists are avoiding sensitive political and security issues.

The military police is investigating five incidents of suspected looting by Israeli troops during Operation Protective Edge. Four of the incidents took place in the southern Gaza towns of Khuza’a and in Khan Yunis, where Palestinians complained that Israeli troops had stolen their possessions when they fled their homes due to the fighting.

“Given the expected tie between the Likud and the Zionist Union, and the political aspirations of Lapid and Kahlon, it is imperative that Center and left-wing voters unite and offer Herzog and Livni a clear mandate to form the next government,” writes Ilan Manor. “Only a significant electoral victory will end Netanyahu’s reign as prime minister.”

The government of national accord is not working and neither Fatah nor Hamas are doing anything about it, Dr Hanan Ashrawi tells MEE in a wide-ranging interview.

Senior Fatah party official Jibril Rajoub on Monday compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler and accused Israel of having Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on its “hit list.”

On her daily visit to the nurses at Doctors Without Borders in Gaza City, Bisan Daher, 7, tries to take her bandages off herself for the first time. Bisan’s house was destroyed in an Israeli air raid in northern Gaza. After being stuck in the rubble for five hours, rescue workers were finally able to reach her. The same attack killed both her mother and her father, as well as several brothers.

Not only are fishermen from Gaza subject to being shot by Israeli sailors, they also struggle against potentially fatal weather conditions.