The conflict between the Gaza and the West Bank impacted by the 1967 Arab-Israeli War: What are we doing to save Israel from our enemies?
He said because of the military operations in Gaza and the shock all Israelis felt about the atrocities committed by Hamas, Israeli soldiers were now, more than ever, failing to live up to their duty to protect Palestinian civilians in occupied areas.
The United Nations had been keeping track of settler violence since the mid-2000s, and it had reached its highest levels before the Hamas attacks. According to U.N. figures, there used to be one incident of settler violence a day. It’s seven now. On top of that, the number of protests by Palestinian youth, furious about the relentless bombardment of Gaza, is also rising. Fatal confrontations with Israeli troops can result from these protests. Soldiers are also staging nightly counterterrorism raids, which the Israelis say are necessary to crack down on armed groups. But the raids, often conducted in tight alleyways and densely inhabited neighborhoods, can set off more bloodshed as well.
The West Bank has been affected by uprisings before. Palestinians and the Israeli security establishment worry about what will happen if it does. If the violence spills out from the West Bank, it could lead to a larger, even more catastrophic regional conflict.
Gaza and the West Bank are two separate areas that Israel captured in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Gaza was sealed off by Israel after it withdrew in 2005, leaving the people in the area subject to a blockade that stifled its economy.
More than 100 Israeli settlements are considered to be illegal by most of the world because they were placed on occupied land.
The Palestinians say that everything in the Middle East is their land.
In recent days threatening leaflets have been thrown under the windows of Palestinian cars in the belief that they came from settlers.
“A great catastrophe will descend upon your heads soon,” read one flier. “We will destroy every enemy and expel you forcefully from our Holy Land that God has written for us. Wherever you are, carry your loads immediately and leave to where you came from. We are here to help you.
She’s not kidding: Israeli policy isn’t the only problem of Hamas, it’s the Palestine problem, not Israel’s
Ms. Tishby said that she was fired by the Israeli government due to her criticism of the administration. Even though she does not apologize for her belief that Israel has a right to defend itself even though it is being criticized for its attacks in Gaza, she does not stop there.
Simone says that she is critical of Noa for her involvement in an effort to link criticism of Israeli government policy with antisemitism.
Israel was attacked by savages three weeks ago. If Mexico had done that to the US, nobody would have told them to stay in school. Israeli is doing the best it can in an impossible situation.”
When she was asked if she stood behind Netanyahu’s handling of the war, she refused. She said she didn’t want to talk about it.
In social media videos and interviews, Ms. Tishby speaks with ease, self-assured, and a passion for the cause she’s trying to promote.
Her objective, she said, is to lift the morale of Jewish people around the world and to try to reach those on the political left who believe the killing of 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping of 240 more by Hamas was an act of Palestinian resistance. She said the progressive left had been played.
Israel is at a time when the Middle East and the world are facing a crisis that is not just an Israeli problem. This is not a battle between Jews and Muslims. And it is not just between Israel and Hamas. It is between those who adhere to norms of humanity and those practicing a barbarism that has no place in the modern world.
High-stakes litigation in Israel against the perpetrator of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001: A case of Bakr vs. Tishby
Ms. Tishby spoke to the camera about the plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. “Imagine if within days of the Al Qaeda attack on 9/11,” she said, “a group of students on American campuses were holding rallies in support of that terror attack.” That is happening on America’s campuses right now.
Before the war, Ms. Tishby was relatively unknown in the United States. But for decades, “she was a household name in Israel,” said her friend Gideon Raff, who created the Israeli television series “Prisoners of War” and was an executive producer of “Homeland,” the Showtime series based on it.
While still in the army, she was cast in a television drama as Dafna Maor, a designer hired to bring youth and relevance to a fashion company. The show was a sensation, named after the affluent suburb of Tel Aviv.
As a lawyer, I don’t have the ability to tell the stories of people who have died or been injured in Gaza. I never met Mr. Nabaheen in person: The intense blockade over Gaza made it impossible for him to visit me, and vice versa. But for my client, and for all of us at Adalah and Al Mezan, giving up on effectively the only pathway to claim redress for Mr. Nabaheen’s injury was not a choice. Our client decided to challenge the constitutionality of the law that prevented people like him from suing in the first place.
The Supreme Court’s approach toward potential war crimes remained consistent. Mr. Nabaheen’s first appeal to the court was dismissed in 2022. In February, the Israeli Supreme Court president, Esther Hayut, turned down our request for a rehearing of the case even though he admitted that the result for him was difficult and that it could affect residents of Gaza. Ultimately, though, she did not deem the case “special and exceptional” enough to pass the legal grounds for holding a rehearing. The Hayut court turned down the petition to reopen the investigation into the four deaths of the Bakr boys, who were playing on the beach in Gaza City. Taken together, these cases demonstrate how the Supreme Court has been an active participant in the effort to shield the Israeli government from any form of accountability, be it criminal or civil.
I wrote these lines in Jerusalem after visiting the families of some of the people kidnapped by Hamas. Jewish Israelis, Muslim Israelis, and foreign citizens are among the hostages held in Gaza.
In all my years of public life, the meetings with these families were the most difficult and fraught I’ve ever held. I spoke with some of the families of people that were killed on that day and they all said their loved ones were murdered in their homes. When I came back from the devastated kibbutz, I had to remove the blood from my shoes.
Just like ISIS and Al Qaeda, the Hamas terrorists who attacked Israeli homes and families had no qualms about burning babies. They raped women and tortured children. They broadcast their good deed live because they were so proud of it. These videos will forever remain a stain on those Palestinians and their supporters who celebrated that day and a testament to the depravity of the terrorists and of the ideas that inspired them.
We have heard that some governments fail to condemn Hamas, instead condemning Israel and seeking to justify Hamas’s atrocities. It would have been unthinkable to hear such moral confusion after the Sept. 11 attacks or after the bombings in London and Barcelona. When I spoke to a joint meeting of Congress this year, I said terrorism “contradicts humanity’s most basic principles of peace.” It turns out that not everyone agrees.
The result of these sickening tactics is the civilian suffering we are all watching unfold. There are reports of humanitarian difficulties in parts of Gaza but they are not reliable and we are also suffering. In 2005 the full withdrawal from Gaza was supposed to give them a chance to live a good life, and open the door for peace. Hamas and its supporters chose not to do so.
These questions will be key among the strategic issues on the agenda in our discussions with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to the region beginning Friday — as they were during the visit to Israel of President Biden a few weeks ago.
Much is at stake at this moment, not just the future of Israel. On Oct. 7, we were presented with a challenge to our hopes and morals. How we meet this challenge will have a big impact on our future.