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IDF chief Aviv Kochavi visits Southern Command in undated photograph. (Credit: Israel Defense Forces)

Exclusive: IDF – ‘Our Mission is to Enlist as Many Israeli Arabs as we can’

It is early morning in the Negev desert, a battalion of soldiers crawls across the desert sand with assault rifles cocked. It’s a routine military exercise, but these are no ordinary combatants -…

Suzan Quitaz 08 July 2022

Arabs and Israel: A Not So Impossible Peace

Arabs and Israelis have been accustomed to documenting their conflict based on the wars between them and the assassination operations they have carried out against each other. It seems as if they…

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People gather to protest attacks by Israeli police with tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades on Palestinians at Masjid al-Aqsa and show solidarity with residents of Sheikh Jarrah who have been targeted by Israeli forces, in Washington D.C, United States on May 12, 2021. (Getty)

After Trump’s Carte Blanche to Israel

After four years of former President Trump's refusal to condemn or even mildly critique any Israeli act, the Biden administration faces soaring Israeli-Palestinian violence equipped with fewer…

Tracy Wilkinson 14 May 2021

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