When Peace Now released a report last week charging that 40 percent of Jewish settlement territory in the West Bank is built on privately owned Palestinian land, the co-author said she hoped it would serve as a wake-up call to principled Israelis.
Disappointed by cease-fires so often in the past, Israeli leaders are determined to give the latest truce a chance in hopes that it will create conditions for the return of a captured Israeli soldier and set in motion a new peace dynamic.
A Turkish film featuring a villainous Jewish doctor has been withdrawn from screening in the United States, perhaps helped by a protest from the Anti-Defamation League.
