Mussa Qawasma/ReutersHEBRON, West Bank—The first thing Bassam Abu Aisha saw when he left his house on Oct. 7 was a gun in his face. It was an Israeli settler, wearing an army uniform and pointing an M16 in his face. The settler was part of a mixed group that included IDF soldiers, who were patrolling in a group, despite the IDF’s supposed role as a neutral arbiter of disputes between the two communities. In a video of the incident taken by a neighbor and shared with The Daily Beast, the man’s fi
When the Israeli government held a cabinet meeting last May in a tunnel underneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, I remembered asking the late Yasser Arafat, in 2000, about the reasons behind the failure of his latest round of talks with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, under the auspices of President Bill Clinton. Arafat had relayed, with Dr. Nabil Shaath’s presence, that Barak demanded Israeli
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