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Israeli military vehicles and tanks are seen along the Israeli border with Lebanon amid the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah, March 8, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel’s renewed war on Lebanon is about more than just Hezbollah

After violating the ‘ceasefire’ 10,000 times, Israel is once again pounding Lebanon as its enduring thirst for war drives ever expanding ambitions.

By Elia Ayoub March 11, 2026

Israeli forces fire a water cannon on residents of the settlement of Kfar Darom in Gaza, who barricaded themselves on the roof of the synagogue during its evacuation, Aug. 18, 2005. (Zamir Yossi/GPO)

How Israel’s Gaza ‘disengagement’ planted the seeds of today’s genocide

Enraged by the 2005 withdrawal, the national-religious camp worked to brand territorial concession as a disaster — with ethnic cleansing as the only solution.

By Daniel Levy September 10, 2025

Israelis look at a giant map of the Gaza Strip depicting future Israeli settlements at the "Conference for Israel's Victory" in Jerusalem, January 28, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli summit envisions Gaza resettlement

Undeterred by the ICJ, ministers and settler leaders promoted plans to expel Palestinians and ‘return’ Israelis to Gaza at a major conference in Jerusalem.

By Oren Ziv January 30, 2024

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Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

The settlers wanted supreme power. They got a rebellion instead

The religious-Zionist movement has made vast inroads in Israeli state and society for two decades. The judicial overhaul may bring it all crashing down.

By Meron Rapoport August 15, 2023

Police arrest Gil Hammerschlag at a protest in Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem, April 2, 2023. (Shai Kendler/Megaphone News)

An Israeli activist was thrown in jail for a week — over a hat

Police arrested Gil Hammerschlag in Jerusalem, after he attended a protest wearing a cap featuring a photo of a Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces.

By Oren Ziv July 11, 2023

Settlers of the Nachala Settlement Movement set up tents near Kiryat Arba, with the intention to establish illegal outposts in the West Bank, July 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why settlers don’t want annexation — yet

Settler leaders panicked when Israel was on the cusp of annexing the West Bank. The government's legal reforms now intend to put their concerns to rest.

By Merav Amir January 26, 2023

Israeli Border Police guard as settlers stand on a rooftop in the Jewish neighborhood of Netiv HaAvot in Gush Etzion, June 12, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Israeli right’s new vision of Jewish political supremacy

The settlement project's success has led to an intertwined Jewish and Palestinian population, reviving the problem Israel tried to solve through expulsion in 1948. Now, the right's priority is segregation.

By Raef Zreik October 27, 2020

Right-wing Israeli activists march in support of Elior Azaria, the Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian attacker, in Jerusalem, November 22, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How the settlers took over Israel

Over the past 13 years the settler Right succeeded in establishing itself as a hegemonic force in Israeli politics, education, judiciary, culture, and society. If the Left has any chance of pushing back, instead of moderating itself it must radicalize. By Rami Kaplan A sense of doom has overcome the left-wing camp in Israel these days.…

By +972 Magazine November 2, 2018

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, MK David Bitan, Culture Minister Miri Regev and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a Knesset plenum session, December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Welcome to Netanyahu’s Westworld

Israelis have a choice: they can either oppose the occupation or watch the Right turn their country into a sadistic theme park. By Alon Mizrahi ‘Westworld’ is a new science fiction television show that revolves around a futuristic amusement park populated by androids. Westworld caters to high-paying guests who can do whatever they wish within…

By +972 Magazine December 11, 2016

Government Press Office doing PR for the settler movement

It seems that every state agency in Israel is becoming a tool in the effort to further colonize the West Bank and deepen the control over the lives of Palestinians. Soon after the government reached an internal “deal” with the settler movement that would keep the families who settled in a so-called “illegal” outpost on the…

By Noam Sheizaf January 13, 2012