The bill for capital punishment progressing in Israel's Knesset would be used exclusively to target Arabs, and would mark another departure from Western international norms. Israel has only executed two men in its history: an IDF officer wrongly charged with treason in 1948, and Adolf Eichmann

Israel's center and left have failed to offer a clear-eyed liberal strategy to counter the far-right's Kahanist agenda, leaving the Israeli public with no political choice except the right

Friday's planned participation of Jewish left-wing activists in the Palestinian olive harvest in the West Bank was derailed by the IDF and Israel police, who only appear to stop those suspected of nonviolence

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich urged Netanyahu to immediately draw up an 'appropriate and decisive response' to the resolution, while National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir pledged to leave the government if Israel agrees to establish a 'terror-rewarding state'

The American's Arab partners see the Israeli prime minister as someone who will not allow any progress toward a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is openly signaling that he is undermining the transition to the second stage of the Gaza cease-fire