Last Tuesday, Israel’s military approved a plan to invade Lebanon to fight its dominant militia, Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s leader issued his strongest threats against Israel in years the following day. And the U.S., Israel’s most powerful ally, hasindicated that it will not block an Israeli offensive. That’s just the past week. Over the nine months prior, […]
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Israeli settlers in the West Bank were hit with international sanctions. It only emboldened them
SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank (AP) — For weeks after being sanctioned by the United States, Yinon Levi struggled to pay the bills, living at his farming outpost atop a hill in the occupied West Bank. But the Israeli settler’s problems didn’t last. When the banks froze his accounts, his community raised thousands of dollars […]