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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Knesset ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Six Day War and the start of settlement in the West Bank, June 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Netanyahu vows to occupy the West Bank forever
If Israel is not willing to relinquish military control over the West Bank, then it is saying that there can be no two-state solution. Benjamin Netanyahu last week promised that Israel will never relinquish security control over the West Bank, even as part of a two-state peace deal, which is to say that the Israeli…
By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man June 13, 2017
Binyamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid (Photo: IsraeliinUSA/CC BY 2.0, Activestills.org)
Top 10 reasons Israel should be going to early elections
From bombs dropped on innocent children in Gaza to the increasing gap between rich and poor, there are many good reasons why the current government needs to go. 1. Israel is going to early elections, but not because this government went on an unnecessary adventure in Gaza killing 500 innocent children only a few months…
By Ami Kaufman December 2, 2014
Women driving, November 2005, Riyadh (Photo: Khowaga1/flickr)
Drive, Saudi sisters, drive
Over a decade ago, I wrote a small piece about Druze women in Israel undertaking their own form of social initiative, by learning how to drive.  (It was sometime in 1998; the original internet magazine where it was published it no longer exists.) I remember being fascinated to learn that driving could be a key…
By Dahlia Scheindlin June 17, 2011
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