Hamas’s plan to force Israel to ease the Gaza blockade has failed, but the deadly border riots have trained the international spotlight back on the enclave while Israeli public diplomacy faltered • The next security challenge is the holy month of Ramadan.
It is such a basic thing to say, but perhaps it needs saying: Even if you oppose all foreign aid and all foreign military commitments, the rest of the world cannot be treated as an afterthought, or as something to ignore entirely.
After attacks on five buildings in two municipalities, including two Democratic party buildings, police arrest and charge Allison Johnson, 45, after releasing photos of a female suspect wanted for questioning.
Israel has quietly increased the number of permits issued to Gazans in exchange for fewer rocket attacks and border demonstrations, Palestinian Authority officials tell foreign media.
Israel’s ambassador to Berlin retweeted an article claiming the offending security guard was of “Arab descent,” and connected the incident with P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas’s claim that Israel had perpetrated “50 Holocausts.”