The Palestinian Authority has arrested several alleged intermediaries who are said to have been involved in the sale of eight houses near Jericho to Israeli settlers.

“We are dismantling the Oslo Accords through our actions; we are returning home,” said Binyamin Regional Council head Yisrael Gantz.

A senior military official says only 2% of harvest areas in Judea and Samaria are considered potential friction zones.

The Judea Brigade is now focusing on its defensive mission ahead of Shabbat Chayei Sarah celebrations in Hebron.

Israeli analysts told JNS that at the least, an opposition victory means a freeze on new settlement construction. In the worst-case scenario, it puts Israel’s very survival at risk.

“Settler violence” is a malevolently distorted canard.

In the same few days, an American photojournalist was beaten near Ramallah and a Knesset candidate’s car window was smashed by Palestinian stone-throwers. One story traveled far. The other mostly stayed home.

Trade restrictions against Israeli businesses in Judea and Samaria are intended to put pressure on Israel. Yet it is precisely thousands of Palestinian workers who could lose their livelihoods as a result.

At the inaugural Judea Conference, the ambassador pointed to the region’s biblical roots and unveiled an ancient stone from Susya’s synagogue.