Netanyahu’s party and the Israeli opposition are at an electoral stalemate that only an alliance with the Palestinian citizens of Israel can break, but neither camp is willing to extend their democratic ideals to the Arab lists who won 19 seats in the latest election.

Covering Israeli settler attacks on the Palestinian olive harvest, Mondoweiss’ Palestine Staff Writer asks how to tell a story when you and the subject are one and the same.

Israeli settlers are blocking, assaulting, and robbing Palestinian olive harvesters. For some 100,000 families in the West Bank who rely on the harvest for income, this season may decide whether the olive harvest survives at all.

Settler attacks in the West Bank are ongoing with the enthusiastic approval of the Israeli army, as Palestinians are barred from accessing their own land, and their olive groves, for the fourth year in a row.

From my uncle’s exasperated sighs over olive groves we can no longer reach, to the iron gates the Israeli army has erected at the edge of my village, there is one word we use to cope: ‘aadi’, or, “normal” in Arabic. But this reality is anything but.

Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth.

In Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are accelerating their attacks on Palestinian farmers and herders in the area by cutting off their water supply.

As a Palestinian journalist, I have spent my career explaining the context the world keeps ignoring. But I’ve come to realize that the context is itself the story, and we aren’t done telling it.

As Israel’s financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign that began with a schoolteacher’s bounced check.

For three generations, Ali Abu Khdeir’s family lived in the home his grandfather built in Deir Jarir until Israeli settlers made staying too dangerous. Now residents fear that their families are next.