What Israel’s Settlement-Legalization Law Does, and Why It Matters
A watershed moment.
February 9, 2017
What Israel’s Settlement-Legalization Law Does, and Why It Matters
A watershed moment.
On Monday, the Knesset passed a bill that allows for West Bank settlements built in violation of Israeli law—or determined after-the-fact by Israeli courts to have been built on private Palestinian land—to obtain legal status. In effect, the bill will, for the first time, bring Israeli law to the West Bank. Haviv Rettig Gur clears away some of the now-widespread misconceptions about this law and explains its implications:
February 9, 2017
The Future of Iraq after Islamic State
Iranian influence and sectarian fragmentation.
Fighting Hizballah in Latin America
Money-laundering, heroin, and terror.
Minimizing the Holocaust at the “New Yorker”
The competition for victimhood wasn’t started by Jews but in reaction to them.
Archaeologists Find a Twelfth Dead Sea Scroll Cave—Without Scrolls
They were most likely stolen in the 1950s.