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Headline: “Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich aims to legalize 68 outposts in Judea and Samaria and has instructed various ministries to prepare to provide them with public services.”Although Israel’s Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir are portrayed as extremist fringe politicians within Israel and by the world for claiming all the land “from the river to the sea,” truth is that this has become the national, centrist consensus in Israel.After October 7, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been adamant that in the future Israel will exercise 100% security control from the river...

A joint study by TAU and the Hebrew University, involving 20 researchers from different countries and disciplines, has accurately dated 21 destruction layers at 17 archaeological sites in Israel by reconstructing the direction and/or intensity of the earth's magnetic field recorded in burnt remnants. The new data verify the Biblical accounts of the Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.

Perpetrator As Victim: No End To A Self-Inflicted "Tragedy" What "Nakba" commemorations really disclose. May 16, 2016 Daniel Mandel    Yesterday, May 15, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over recent years, marked the nakba (Arabic for ‘catastrophe’) –– the day 68 years ago that Israel came into existence upon the expiry of British rule under a League of Nations mandate. That juxtaposition of Israel and nakba isn’t accidental. We’re meant to understand that Israel’s creation caused the displacement of hundreds of thousand of Palestinian Arabs.  But the truth is different. A British document from the...

From an interview in Asharq al-Awsat of Palestinian Arab Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki: Q: You said that there are a number of contentious issues. Which is the most intractable? This is the issue of recognizing the Jewish nature of the Israeli state. This is a sharply contentious issue. It would be dangerous to recognize this because this would mean our acceptance of the dissolution of our own history and ties and our historic right to Palestine. This is something that we will never accept under any circumstances. Isn’t that interesting? The Palestinian position is that if there is any Jewish...