When you read the Trump plan closely, you realize it is a mirror image of the Oslo Accords. Rather than Israel being required to prove its good will, the Palestinians are required to prove their commitment to peace.
Thankfully, past efforts to trade the Golan to Syria for “peace” failed. Israel is right to seek to foreclose the possibility of such a mistake in the future.
“A big impetus for this friction is the fact that there’s been a disparity between the Bedouin’s perception of their property rights and Israel’s view of Bedouin property rights,” said David May, a senior research analyst at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. “Bedouin simply don’t have deeds to the land that they claim to be theirs.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was bashed for extolling strength and deploring weakness. The ongoing slaughter in Syria illustrates the wisdom of his sentiment.
Israel calls sentencing of Naama Issachar, 26, “disproportionate” • Incident comes amid a campaign by Russia to prevent Israel from extraditing a Russian hacker to the United States.
Debuting in 1982 and airing for 34 years until host John McLaughlin’s death in August 2016, the show was known to pioneer the political panels so common now on television.