The government insists sanctioning Israel is too complex so close to an election. But New Zealand also has obligations under international law it shouldn’t ignore.
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The vote to have death by hanging as the default for Palestinians guilty of killing Israelis represents the further entrenchment of a two-tier legal system.
Invites are rescinded, teams and singers are booed, and citizens wonder if they should disclose their nationality. Israelis are feeling the effects of international isolation.
The proposed development would effectively cut the West Bank in two.
The two extremist members of the Netanyahu government have consistently opposed any efforts to bring peace to the region.
This is a momentous development. But what are sanctions anyway, and what do they mean for Israel’s Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich?
Australia has imposed country-wide sanctions on Russia, Myanmar and Iran. Calls are growing for stronger action on Israel, including an arms embargo.
The tension comes as the prime minister prepares to leave for the G7 summit at the end of the week.
The ultranationalist Zionist movement believes in Israel’s divine right to occupy the West Bank and Gaza.
The impression that Israel is at a stalemate or that there is a rift between leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli public over the fate of the hostages is misleading. His hold on power is solid.
A World Bank report from May suggested the Palestinian Authority was close to collapse – it is by no means out of the woods.
Israel will withhold Palestinian tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority ‘until further notice’, and not for the first time.
Facing opposition to a peace deal within his own cabinet, Israel’s prime minister will find it difficult to agree an international peace deal and hold on to power.
Israel’s settler movement, which is already sparking sectarian violence in the West Bank, is laying claim to the Gaza Strip – with support from some senior politicians.
While the war in Gaza has riveted public attention, the simultaneous escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank is not disconnected from the violence in Gaza.
Israel’s prime minister is under pressure from public protests and an increasingly assertive right wing in his coalition government.
Mass protests against the government’s plans to weaken the judiciary have exposed the deep divisions in Israel’s civil society.
The controversial new government of Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from massive protests by both Israelis and Palestinians.
Israel’s most far-right and religious ruling coalition, which just assumed power, poses a profound threat to the country’s democratic institutions, from the courts to individual rights.
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