Occupation

Could the Palestinian Authority be planning a Jewish genocide in the West Bank? - opinion

The government might be making the same mistake with the PA as it did with Hamas by believing it is a peace partner rather than an enemy

|ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
Palestinian Security Forces, who have been trained under US General Keith Dayton in Jordan, train in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 13, 2009.
The IDF conducts large-scale anti-illegal immigration operations in the West Bank on July 26, 2026.

There is no military solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - opinion

The conflict will end only when Palestinians achieve freedom, sovereignty, dignity, and statehood, and Israelis achieve security, recognition, and regional acceptance.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN
JEWISH SETTLERS are seen at the unauthorized Beit Anot outpost in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank after being informed of an expected evacuation, June 1, 2026.

How democratic Israelis can win the war against the messianic settler Right - opinion

It is time to wake up and acknowledge that there is no democracy with occupation.

|ByGERSHON BASKIN
Demonstrators hold signs against what they describe as international silence over sexual violence perpetrated against Israeli women during the attack by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, at a protest in Jerusalem, November 27, 2023.

Breaking the individual to break the collective - opinion

Occupation does not begin at a border. It begins inside the human mind. That is why sexual violence has remained such an effective weapon across centuries.

|ByCATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM

Israel's persecution of Palestinians is wrong and has to end - opinion

No moral human being can look at what we as Israelis are doing to the Palestinian people and not feel outrage.

APRIL 13, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
MUSLIMS, JEWS and Israeli security forces are present on the Temple Mount during Passover and Ramadan.

Palestinians should learn from Israeli judicial reform protests - opinion

Israelis are right to rebel against a government bent on altering the laws for the expediency of forming a ruthless coalition government.

APRIL 4, 2023ByBISHARA A. BAHBAH
ISRAELI FORCES detain a Palestinian, during a protest in Huwara, last week. Maybe now that Israelis fear for their democracy, they might start thinking about what their government has done to the Palestinians, says the writer.

Israel, Palestinians never intended to follow Sharm el-Sheikh agreement - opinion

I have spoken to some senior officials on both sides, and it seems clear that there is no real intention of actually implementing the communiqué that was agreed on in Sharm el-Sheikh.

MARCH 23, 2023ByGERSHON BASKIN
A MAN holds a Palestinian flag and tires are burned at the Israel-Gaza border fence, during a protest against the Israeli-Palestinian meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, on Sunday.

Letters to the Editor March 1, 2023: The very concept of democracy

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MARCH 1, 2023ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Moral idiocy: Academics fuel Palestinian terror against Israel - opinion

Jews have often been blamed for their enemies’ enmity. This Palestinian addiction to violence, however, reveals more about the killers than those killed. 

FEBRUARY 15, 2023ByGIL TROY
MOURNERS ATTEND the funeral of Asher Menachem Pally on Saturday night, after he died of injuries sustained in Friday’s car-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem.

Israel's Right lied about the court, lust for despotic rule - opinion

Israel's legal system has managed to preserve our right to not be arrested in the middle of the night by an elected dictatorship’s political militia.

FEBRUARY 7, 2023ByDAN PERRY
SUPREME COURT President Esther Hayut flanked by justices Uzi Vogelman (left) and Isaac Amit. The court has, in fact, not dared to decisively impact the burning issues rending Israeli society, says the writer.

From legal occupation to annexation, and how it’s viewed internationally - opinion

Since 1967, there has been a situation known internationally as temporary occupation, with legal recognition of the temporary legitimacy of the Israeli presence in the territories.

FEBRUARY 5, 2023ByDANIEL CARMON
FOREIGN MINISTRY Director-General Alon Ushpiz (right) sits alongside Foreign Minister Eli Cohen at a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem when Cohen was welcomed as the new minister.

UNHRC discriminates against Israel, should send rapporteur home - opinion

Appointing a UNHRC rapporteur to Israel is an outrageous and totally fictitious antisemitic assessment of the relationship between our Arab citizens and residents, and the Jewish Israeli public.

JANUARY 31, 2023ByWALTER BINGHAM
MICHAEL LYNK, then-special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a session of the Human Rights Council at the UN in Geneva, in 2019.

In Nablus, Lions' Den vows to continue resistance against Israel

To most residents of this large city in the northern West Bank, these young men are the new face of Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.

JANUARY 27, 2023ByLINDA GRADSTEIN
Posters of Palestinian ‘martyrs’ in Nablus

EU must sanction Israel, Shtayyeh tells foreign ministers in Brussels

Mohammad Shtayyeh: There is a need for serious intervention to protect the Palestinian people and preserve the two-state solution.

JANUARY 23, 2023ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, KHALED ABU TOAMEH
French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna welcomes Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh before a meeting on the sidelines of a EU's Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium January 23, 2023.