NEWS:
Official Israeli figures show another significant spike in settlement activity [1]. (AP)
Palestinian officials accuse Israeli companies of forging property documents [2] to facilitate settlement building. (Xinhua)
Israeli occupation authorities order the destruction [3] of eight Palestinian properties in the flashpoint East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. (Ma'an)
Palestinian officials say Pres. Abbas will meet Sec. Kerry [4] early this week, but Kerry's trip may be postponed [5]. (Ma'an/PNN)
Labour Party leader Yacimovich tells PM Netanyahu she'd be willing to join his coalition in support of serious peace efforts [6]. (Jerusalem Post)
Senior Israeli officials [7] disavow Deputy DM Danon's [8] recent r [9]epudiation of a two-state solution [10]. (Irish Times/YNet/Times of Israel)
Former FM Lieberman [11] joins those claiming there has been a "de facto settlement freeze" [12]in occupied East Jerusalem since the beginning of the year. (Ha'aretz/Jerusalem Post)
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti says current US peace efforts are "unfair" because they are "biased towards Israel." [13](Xinhua)
Israeli and Palestinian leaders continue to blame each other [14] for lack of progress on peace. (The National)
Israel bars Fatah official [15] Jibril Rajoub from entering Israel. (Times of Israel)
A Knesset panel pushes forward with a controversial new, sweeping and very broad "anti-terror" law [16]. (Xinhua)
Palestinian farmers near Israel's Gaza "buffer zone" face continuous dangers [17] to both their lives and crops from occupation forces. (New York Times)
Israeli forces shoot [18] and injure a Palestinian farmer in southern Gaza. (Ma'an)
Palestinians clash with Israeli settlers [19] at "Joseph's tomb." (Ma'an)
Four Palestinians receive life in prison [20] for the 2010 murder of an Israeli police officer. (Jerusalem Post)
The PA economy minister walks out of a BDS meeting, and security forces are accused of beating [21] an activist who criticized him. (Jerusalem Post)
Palestinians in Hebron launch the first protest against the new government [22] of PM Hamdallah. (Jerusalem Post)
The head of the Palestinian public employees union welcomes the PA cabinet reshuffle [23]. (Ma'an)
Israel is trying to stay out of the Syrian war [24] despite heavy fighting near the occupied Golan Heights. (Reuters)
The frontier between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights is seen as increasingly unstable [25]. (Xinhua)
Israel's military exports jumped [26] by 20% in 2012. (Xinhua)
Israel is making cyber security recruitment and training [27] a priority as early as 10th grade. (Christian Science Monitor)
Israel ranks low among countries in providing aid to poor nations [28]. (Los Angeles Times)
Experts squabble over whether mass graves in Jaffa [29] originate from the 1948 war or World War I. (Ha'aretz)
COMMENTARY:
J.J. Goldberg [30] says Israeli security officials believe Netanyahu's policies are preventing serious negotiations with the Palestinians, and that [31] the political and security establishments are deeply at odds over policy towards the Palestinians. (The Forward)
Khaled Abu Toameh [32] says some Palestinian leaders are spreading extreme rhetoric that compromises peace with Israel. (Gatestone)
Ben Caspit [33] says the US still believes Netanyahu is not the main obstacle to peace. (Al Monitor)
Nathan Jeffay [34] says discrimination at an Israeli amusement park is just the tip of the iceberg, and discrimination against Arabs is rampant there. (The Forward)
Eitan Haber [35] says Israel is losing American support as US interests in the Middle East are evolving. (YNet)
Amira Hass [36] looks at Hamdallah's record in building An-Najah University. (Ha'aretz)
Yossi Sarid [37] says the Jewish National Fund has outlived its usefulness. (Ha'aretz)
Romana Michelon [38] looks at the prospects of a third intifada for EU policy. (FRIDE)
Itamar Rabinovich [39] says, from an Israeli point of view, that without significant US intervention the war in Syria is likely to become a regional one. (Hoover)
Amira Hass [40] says Palestinian officials need to learn the media wants information, not familiar clichés. (Ha'aretz)
Barry Rubin [41] calls Kerry's peace efforts "embarrassing." (Jerusalem Post)
Dani Dayan [42] ardently defends Israel's settlement project. (The Guardian)
Uri Avnery [43] calls the 1967 war "a Greek tragedy." (Jerusalem Post)
Michael Bar-Zohar [44] calls 1967 "the war no one wanted." (Jerusalem Post)
Daniella Cheslow [45] looks at the struggle over the West Bank village of Batir with its ancient terraces, now threatened by Israel's separation barrier. (Tablet)
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