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Palestinians inspect the Abo Hatab family house after an Israeli air strike struck their house located in al-Shati Refugee Camp without warning during the night, in Gaza City early on May 15, 2021. Israel faced a widening conflict on May 14, as deadly violence erupted across the West Bank amid a massive aerial bombardment in Gaza and unprecedented unrest among Arabs and Jews inside the country. The West Bank clashes, described as among the most intense since the second intifada that began in 2000, left 11 people dead from Israeli fire, the Palestinian health ministry said, as overall fata...

Patrick Kingsley is a 32-year-old British-born journalist, educated at Eton and Cambridge in English Literature. He formerly worked for The Guardian before he became the New York Times's bureau chief in Istanbul in 2017. He is now their bureau chief in

David Halbfinger (Photo: New York Times) The New York Times just ran an article in which an Israeli documentary filmmaker asserts that “Evangelicals are the only significant power outside Israel that is openly supporting the settlements. No one else does.” This is simply not true. The Times reporter, David Halbfinger, accepts the assertion from filmmaker Maya Zinshtein even though he served as Jerusalem bureau chief when two very powerful Jewish supporters of the settlements were all over our politics: Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and Mideast envoy; and David Friedman, Don...

Despite a collapsing Lebanese economy and considerable political turmoil, Hezbollah continues to threaten Israel. These threats must be taken seriously,... Then, in what I initially assumed to be an innocuous article (on February 24) about Israel’s distribution of coronavirus vaccines, the Times headline caught my attention: “Israel Vaccines Go to Far-Off Allies Before Palestinians.” Since Palestinians are not normally considered to be Israel’s “allies,” I wondered whether Kingsley, who wrote the article, was averse to drawing the distinction. He began by citing a “debate” (l...