Communications

Members of the UN Human Rights Council panel, which presented its findings Monday regarding Israel's war with Gaza last summer, should have been made aware of the doctrine that guided Hamas actions in Operation Protective Edge. 

Just hours after the United Nations Human Rights Council released its findings June 22, attorney Col. Pnina Sharvit-Baruch (res.) offered Al-Monitor this assessment: “In terms of a criminal indictment, Israel has no reason to worry about the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The UNHRC report on Operation Protective Edge didn’t investigate the events on a...

In the West Bank, one of the things that comes out over and over again is the lack of good government and the corruption that is associated with the PA.

Egypt’s role as an apparent underwriter of the deal “continues to be problematic” because of its interests in weakening the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot Hamas, said Benedetta Berti, a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Israel. “Egypt’s pressure on Israel during this round of escalation has not necessarily been a...

When Secretary Kerry’s anticipated failure to mediate an Israeli-Palestinian permanent status agreement resulted in a complete stalemate of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, it was clear it might have severe short and long-term repercussions. 

At this moment a black Swastika adorns Paris’s Statue de la République – the sacrosanct symbol of the French Republic – which for the past few weeks has also been covered with Palestinian, Algerian, Turkish and Islamic State flags in protest against Israel’s Operation Protective Edge to prevent Hamas missile attacks and terrorist infiltration...

But Israeli analysts said that since 1973, no prime minister has emerged from a war unscathed. Yehuda Ben Meir, an expert on public opinion at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, cautioned that it was too early to assess the outcome of the campaign.