“Hamas has driven Gaza to a state of desperation,” Mr. Kushner said on Sunday. “Provocations will not be rewarded with aid.”

Western diplomats say the White House’s aid review is meant to force Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to return to negotiating table, but former U.S. officials say it won’t work.

Israel has formally declared the right of national self-determination, once envisioned to include all within its borders, as “unique to the Jewish people.”

“After voting against the nation-state law in the Knesset, I stepped out of parliament and encountered Netanyahu in the parking lot,” writes MK Aida Touma-Sliman. “I told him he’ll go down in history as the first prime minister of Israeli apartheid.”

Critics, especially Jews in the diaspora, see it as a definitive declaration in favor of a Jewish identity at the expense of a democratic one.

Instead of gradually transferring power to PA, Israel is handing it to settlers, says a former US State Department representative for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Some 200 Israeli activists surreptitiously entered the evacuated settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank under the cover of darkness early Tuesday in a symbolic protest of the government’s refusal to pass legislation allowing them to return permanently.

New documents reveal how Israel’s leaders prepared to celebrate the country’s 10-year anniversary: by bringing tourists to participate in orientalist ‘fantasy’ tours to Arab villages, then under military rule.

Hundreds of Israeli settlers have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem to commemorate the historic destruction of Jewish temples, referred to in Israel as Tisha B’av.

Israel says it hopes the program will improve living conditions in impoverished Palestinian neighborhoods and grant residents access to Israel’s robust economy. But the city’s long-neglected Palestinian community views the project with deep skepticism and mistrust, fearing it is a way of cementing Israel’s control over the eastern sector.

The Strategic Affairs Ministry headed by Gilad Erdan recently published a report that includes harsh accusations against the European Union. The report charges that the EU provides financial support for the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement by means of 13 organizations – seven European and six Palestinian – that promote the delegitimization of Israel.

A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel is holding following worst escalation of violence since 2014 war on Gaza, but civilians in the Palestinian enclave remain fearful.

President Trump’s belligerent, all-caps tweet about Iran this past weekend is hardly a natural response to anything the Iranians have been saying or doing lately.