The harm of fanaticism is amply apparent in the Palestinian arena. Generations of Palestinian leaders have led their people astray by dogmatic adherence to unrealistic goals, territorial and otherwise. Were a genuinely pragmatic Palestinian leadership to emerge, we could advance realistic solutions to our disputed issues. The malaise of fanaticism hasn’t yet disappeared from Palestinian society, and until it does it is difficult to see a change for the better.

On the other hand, we see much evidence of sober thinking elsewhere in the region, notably among the Gulf states. Perhaps the clearest example is Saudi Arabia, …

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called on moderate Sunni states, especially Saudi Arabia, to bolster their security ties with Israel in an effort to fight global terrorism and counter the Iranian threat.

In an opinion piece titled “Uniting behind pragmatism in the Middle East” that was published in Defense News, one of the world’s top military magazines, Lieberman asserted that the “strategic divide in today’s Middle East between fanaticism and pragmatism outweighs the sectarian divisions of the past.”

(24.6.2017) „We have to change the regime in order to save the Israeli democracy from the fascistization that is threatening it,“ Herzog continued.

The opposition leader explained that the current government was „threatening artists, Supreme Court judges and threatening and firing journalists.“

(17.8.2017) America is currently experiencing a wave of increasingly aggressive far-right and neo-fascist activism. Observers have routinely considered fascism an ideology alien to American society. Yet it has deeper roots in American history than most of us have been willing to acknowledge.

(3.12.2017) A top Sephardi rabbi in Israel sparked controversy when he ruled recently that religious people should not look at the 50-shekel banknote because it is adorned with the image of Shaul Tchernichovsky, a renowned Hebrew poet who was married to a Christian woman.

Shaul Tchernichovsky was born in Russia and created most of his work in Israel in the early 19th century and is considered to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets.

After she gets punched by the soldier, she lays on the ground unconscious.

–a sustained popular uprising that exposed the ugliness of Israel’s occupation.

According to medical officials on Friday, Israeli troops shot and wounded over forty Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank as protests over U.S. President Donald Trump‘s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel‘s capital. One man was shot near the Palestinian city of Ramallah, three others were shot and wounded in the West Bank, and a further thirty-eight were injured on the border of the Gaza Strip.

Most of the casualties were on the Gaza Strip border, where thousands of Palestinians gathered to hurl rocks at Israeli soldiers beyond the fortified fence. Medics said two protesters, one of them wheelchair-bound, were killed and 145 wounded.