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Soldiers arrest a masked settler (Photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

When the IDF wants to protect Palestinians, it’s almost able

What we can learn from the IDF’s farcical attempts to prevent settlers from damaging relations with the U.S. By Yesh Din, written by Yossi Gurvitz One of the U.S.’s federal agencies is named USAID, an acronym for United States Agency for International Development. It is one of the “soft power” arms of the American government:…

By +972 Magazine August 9, 2013

U.S. President Barack Obama (Center for American Progress/CC)

Is Obama boycotting Israel’s new settlement university?

Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama’s trip to Israel on Wednesday, the embassy here is reportedly sending out around 2,000 invitations to Israeli student representatives from universities across the country to attend his speech in Jerusalem on March 21. All except one: Ariel University in the West Bank settlement of the same name (upgraded from a college…

By Mairav Zonszein March 14, 2013