Posts Tagged: Judea and Samaria
IDF Forces Enter Palestinian Village After Thwarted Terror Attack
JNS.org - Israeli forces entered the village of Ras Karkar in Judea and Samaria early on Friday, following a terror attack in the Sde Ephraim...
The Future of Settlement in Israel
Two matters currently in dispute that are on the agenda of the settlement enterprise constitute a key to the future of Israel: the choice of...
Israel Must Look Beyond the Coronavirus Crisis
JNS.org - The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that “noise kills thought.” We are in a period with much coronavirus-related noise. Yet as the world...
Zionism, Messianism and the Question of the Settlements
At least 500,000 Israelis live in territories won in the 1967 Six-Day War, and possibly a great deal more than that. They reside everywhere from...
Sovereignty in Judea and Samaria: Historical and Legal Milestones
JNS.org - The subject of the rights under international law of the Jewish People and the State of Israel in Judea and Samaria involves a...
Fifty-Two Years Late Isn’t Too Late
JNS.org - As Israel considers how and when to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria — drawing its map in cooperation with the...
‘Annexation’ or Sovereignty?
“Annexation Looms” headlined a mournful New York Times article (June 19) co-authored by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David M. Halbfinger and Adam Rasgon, Palestinian affairs reporter...
Washington Post Amnesia on Israel and ‘Annexation’
JNS.org - “History,” the late historian Bernard Lewis wrote, “is the collective memory and if we think of the social body in terms of the...
Annexation Fulfills Zionist Dream
Yossi Klein Halevi has long been one of my favorite Israeli writers. Our shared New York boyhoods -- his in Brooklyn and mine in Queens...
Settlements and Sovereignty
As the Trump administration develops its plan, soon to be announced, for the extension of Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, fury...
The New York Times’ Anguish Over Annexation
Nothing is likelier to rile New York Times editors -- and, not infrequently, columnists and contributing writers -- than Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria,...
American Jews ‘Dismayed’ by Israel
Of the writing of books critical of Israel by American Jews, invariably liberals, there is no end. All that has changed is that women have...
Netanyahu Says Work on Annexation Map Has Begun: ‘We Are Turning Parts of the Homeland in Judea and Samaria Into Part of the State of Israel Forever’
Israel's government has established a team to map out areas of the West Bank that it will annex in accordance with President Donald Trump’s recently...
The New York Times Dreads Peace
When President Donald Trump’s peace plan was released, assuring Israel of sovereignty along the Jordan River, the security of settlements in Biblical Judea and Samaria,...