Why does Israel extend International Covenant of political and civil protections to Israelis living in the settlements, but not to their far more numerous Palestinian neighbors? A conversation with Dutch jurist Cees Flinterman

White House officials say there will be no more negotiations on the stalled peace process during the rest of the Obama administration, but the key is to instill hope in Palestinians that they will some day get “dignity” — empty words Obama and Netanyahu are sure to echo tomorrow

BBC’s Stephen Sackur, host of HardTalk, interviewed Saeb Erekat, PLO Secretary General and veteran chief…

Israeli forces shot and killed an elderly Palestinian woman, Tharwat al-Sharawi, 72, after an alleged vehicle attack in Halhul, north of Hebron on Friday. Israel killed her husband Fouad in during first Intifadah in 1988; he was a teacher who succumbed to teargas

Crisis grows among liberal Zionists: Lara Friedman of Peace Now urges US to give up the peacemaking business before Israel becomes a “pariah state,” David Grossman says Netanyahu has led frightened Israelis down a blind alley, and Amos Oz says he will boycott Israeli embassy events. Well, it’s something.

Zionism excuses a multitude of sins. That’s why reform temple B’nai Jehoshua Beth Elohim of Deerfield, Il., led by a female rabbi, is welcoming rightwing Chabad rabbi Shmuley Boteach, whose community is sexist–because he supports Israel.

NYT wants Obama and Netanyahu to patch up differences. By reducing Israel’s crimes to settlement building the NYT makes Israeli misdeeds seem nonviolent and abstract, while the only violence ever condemned is Palestinian. NYT puts liberal Zionism lip service away from neoconservatism.

Brace yourself for another eight years of the US president kissing up to the Israeli prime minister.

Hebron is an epicenter of resistance: Around a third of the 70 Palestinian deaths in October came from Hebron and the surrounding area. The city itself, which has always had a heavy Israeli army presence, is now seeing increased soldier numbers.

Yet another American advises that the solution to structural violence in Palestine is that Palestinian mothers must teach children nonviolence. But look at these children’s experience of occupation and apartheid.