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Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement

The move follows government approval on Wednesday for the construction of 764 housing units across three settlements in the West Bank.

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.
ARIEL SHARON visits the Temple Mount in 2000.

How the Second Intifada built the walls that failed on October 7 - analysis

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon addresses the cabinet at a meeting in 2004, ahead of a vote on approving a Gaza pullout. Let’s not forget a key cause of our ongoing disaster – Sharon’s 2005 ‘disengagement’ from Gaza, the writer charges.

The Gaza Disengagement: Sharon's strategic mistake and its cost – opinion

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform


Was Sharon right after all?

If the Gaza pullout doesn’t kill us, it may well have saved us from a far more lethal West Bank one.

Avi Farhan, a Gaza evacuee whose life was turned upside down by prime minister Ariel Sharon, spreads an Israeli flag over his grave.

Restraint is not strength

Sharon’s disengagement plan was perhaps the most deceitful, manipulative and shameful move by any Israeli leader.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unable to achieve a satisfactory ceasefire agreement without having to commit ground forces, was forced to send in the troops; here IDF APCs maneuver outside the northern Gaza Strip, July 18

Israel and Gaza: The existential conundrum

Gaza only poses problems of Current Security to Israel, the West Bank, however, constitutes a Basic Security problem.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addresses the nation on the disengagement from Gaza, August 15, 2005

The long view?

The Arab Spring is better understood as a ‘Second Arab Awakening’ that has the potential to build a political culture and political institutions that promote checks and balances on government power, diversity, toleration, human rights and economic growth, writes Marwan Muasher.

A site hit by what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad in the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo this week.

Grapevine: Italian empathy

Grasso promised to raise his voice all over Italy, with the aim of gaining support for the safe return of the abducted youngsters.

Carving fruit at Thai Embassy event, June 24, 2014.

Candidly speaking: Our Islamic fundamentalist adversaries are inhuman barbarians

If these barbarians have the capacity to behave so cruelly toward their own kinsmen, one can only shudder at what they would do to Jews if they had the opportunity.

ISIS fighters

Media comment: ‘They’ are not ‘one of us’

In this period between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Independence Day, we can only wish that Israel’s democracy does not succumb to those who abuse its freedoms.

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The price is going up

Policy makers still turn a blind eye to "price tag" activists and legislators have followed suit.

Price tag attack Zichron Yaakov

Candidly speaking: Jewish leaders Down Under are not being intimidated

Indeed, Australia could serve as a role model for leaders in other Diaspora Jewish communities.

Netanyahu with Australian FM Bob Carr 370

Netanyahu, Ya'alon eulogize decorated war hero Har Zion

Meir Har Zion, who was part of legendary commando force Unit 101, was laid to rest near his home in the northern Jordan Valley.

Meir Har Zion (far left) with Moshe Dayan.