Is PA crackdown on terror too little, too late; Jewish extremist violence still high; confronting the Iranian smuggling threat from Jordan
Had the defendants been only convicted of less dangerous rock throwing, lighter sentences might have been less surprising.
While the threat of our enemies today feels so palpable, we must not lose sight of ourselves and of who we are as Am Yisrael.
For the first religious Zionist in the job, tackling both Palestinian terror wave, extremist Jewish violence could be a nearly impossible task.
In a New York Times report, the writer discusses the history of violence among Jewish residents of the West Bank against Palestinians and how it led to the emersion of their supporters in government.
In February, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington deemed West Bank settlements inconsistent with international law, reverting to a position that had been overturned by Donald Trump.
Each fundamentalist movement presents to its followers a vision of a state of religious law between the river Jordan and the sea - a Halachic State or an Islamic Caliphate.
The abuses include "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," the EU Council said in a statement.
Gopstein, who leads the extremist anti-Arab group Lehava, was convicted for a speech ten years ago at a memorial to the extremist Jewish rabbi Meir Kahane.
Imagine if the roles were reversed, with Christians spitting at Jews in some European capital.
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