When President Biden issued an executive order two weeks ago aimed at combating violence in the West Bank by enabling sanctions on anyone engaging in or complicit in terrorism, property destructi...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2024/02/15/the-sleight-of-hand-in-dismissing-settler-violence/
After Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s insistence last Thursday that anyone speaking about the day after him is actually speaking about a Palestinian state, and that Israel’s requirement t...
Israel suffered an ugly terrorist attack on Monday in a spot where such attacks are uncommon. Two Palestinian cousins from a village outside of Hebron stole cars in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’an...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2024/01/18/the-dilemma-of-the-short-term-versus-the-long-term/
Among the various crises that Israel is juggling in the post-October 7 world is a financial one. Israel’s economy—and particularly the value of the shekel—had been on a downturn all year un...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/11/30/the-most-irresponsible-man-in-israel/
Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are not shy about expressing their often-blunt thoughts about Israeli policies in the West Bank and those policies’ critics. In what has b...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/08/31/reading-between-smotrich-and-ben-gvirs-lines/
Up until this week, most people asked about the current tension between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu—embodied by the ongoing and glaring absence of an Oval Office i...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/07/13/bidens-new-focus-regarding-israel-is-exactly-right/
It is challenging to write on a week like this, with the situation on the ground between Israelis and Palestinians pockmarked with terrorism, IDF operations requiring tactics that are unprecedent...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/06/22/take-a-deep-breath/
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was interviewed on Britain’s Sky News last week, and among the various topics covered was Israeli settlement policies in the West Bank. Netanyahu’s answer wh...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/06/15/enjoy-your-one-state-reality/
Now that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has passed his budget through the Knesset, giving him some much-desired political breathing space, his priorities—or, at least, the priorities of his ...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/06/01/the-netanyahu-government-proclaims-its-priorities/
Any analyst of Israeli policy worth their salt knows that the animating feature of Israeli government decision-making is security. It is what drove the Labor government’s earliest settlement po...
https://ottomansandzionists.com/2023/03/23/dropping-the-pretense-of-israels-security-obsession/