The New Dark Age

* UN aid group: Israel deliberately hampering West Bank, Gaza relief efforts
* Nehemia Shtrasler: Our bleeding-heart prime minister
* East Jerusalem eviction orders threaten new embarrassment for Netanyahu

UN aid group: Israel deliberately hampering West Bank, Gaza relief efforts

A United Nations humanitarian relief agency is accusing Israel of deliberately disrupting the international community’s aid efforts for the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to a special report released by the UN’s OCHA, Israel is not permitting construction of buildings for needy Palestinians and is encumbering on the freedom of movement of aid groups and their staffs.

Nehemia Shtrasler: Our bleeding-heart prime minister

How can we rely on those Palestinians? For 43 years, they have been building the settlers’ homes with the sweat of their brows, paving roads for them and building their fences, and then suddenly, out of the blue, a boycott? Is that the way for partners to behave? Is that how they pay us back after we educated them for so many years to be our hewers of wood and drawers of water?

East Jerusalem eviction orders threaten new embarrassment for Netanyahu

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Washington in a much-feted effort to restore damaged ties with the United States, new tensions in East Jerusalem threaten to rekindle a diplomatic row over Jewish building beyond the Green Line in the city. On Saturday lawyers served eviction notices to two Palestinian families in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, a focus of clashes between Arab residents and settlers.

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