![Israeli soldiers scuffle with Palestinians near a truck loaded with items European diplomats wanted to deliver to locals in the West Bank herding community of Khirbet al-Makhul, in the Jordan Valley September 20, 2013. Israeli soldiers manhandled European diplomats on Friday and seized a truck full of tents and emergency aid they had been trying to deliver to Palestinians whose homes were demolished earlier this week. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTX13SGZ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/09/EU%20IDF.jpg/EU%20IDF.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=Q1LGfGwc)
Shmuel Rosner is a Tel Aviv–based columnist, editor and think tank fellow. He is senior political editor for the Jewish Journal and writes the blog "Rosner's Domain." He writes weekly for The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. Rosner is a fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) and the chief nonfiction editor for Israel’s largest publishing house, Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir. On Twitter: @rosnersdomain
![Israeli soldiers scuffle with Palestinians near a truck loaded with items European diplomats wanted to deliver to locals in the West Bank herding community of Khirbet al-Makhul, in the Jordan Valley September 20, 2013. Israeli soldiers manhandled European diplomats on Friday and seized a truck full of tents and emergency aid they had been trying to deliver to Palestinians whose homes were demolished earlier this week. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) - RTX13SGZ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/09/EU%20IDF.jpg/EU%20IDF.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=Q1LGfGwc)
![Children cross the street as residents of south Tel Aviv carry Israeli flags during a protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhoods May 30, 2012. Last week a similar protest held by residents of the low-income neighbourhoods where many of the border-jumpers from Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan live led to violence, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a "pogrom". Fleeing poverty, fighting and authoritarian rule, some 60, 000 Africans have crossed illegally into Israel thro](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/09/Israel%20migrant.jpg/Israel%20migrant.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=1Y2HHjFd)
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![U.S. President Barack Obama hugs Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as President Shimon Peres (L) watches on, before Obama's departure from Tel Aviv International Airport, March 22, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3FBUO](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/09/ObamaBibiHug.jpg/ObamaBibiHug.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=woc32iI4)
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![Israeli policemen attempt to maintain order during a demonstration by Palestinians near Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, as minor clashes take place at a nearby compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount September 4, 2013. An Israeli police spokesperson said five people were detained on Wednesday for throwing stones at police who had entered the compound after stones were thrown at visitors at the holy site ahead of the Jewish new year, or Rosh Hashanah, which begins today](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/09/1-RTX13729-001.jpg/1-RTX13729-001.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=xrAu9c--)
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![A man carries gas masks kits which he collected from a distribution centre in Jerusalem August 29, 2013. Israel ordered a small-scale mobilisation of reservists on Wednesday and strengthened its missile defences as precautions against possible Syrian attack should Western powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria. Many Israelis continued to queue up for gas masks at distribution centres on Thursday. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) - RTX1302E](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/08/isr.jpg/isr.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=5I1-l1NP)
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![File photograph of Palestinian President Arafat, Israel's Perez and Israeli Prime Minister Rabin showing their Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was in a coma and in critical condition in the intensive care unit at a French military hospital after his health suddenly deteriorated, aides said November 4, 2004. Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, (L) Israel's Shimon Perez (C) and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin show their Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo in this December 10, 1994](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/08/RTREZMI.jpg/RTREZMI.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=2qvWf0zQ)
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![Jamil Nabi Annatsheh, a Palestinian prisoner freed by Israel, stands beneath a banner depicting him and hung outside his house in the West Bank city of Hebron August 14, 2013. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators were due to reconvene U.S.-brokered peace talks in Jerusalem on Wednesday amid little fanfare and low expectations, dogged by plans for more Jewish settler homes on occupied land. The resumption of negotiations, after a first round in Washington last month that ended a three-year standoff over Jewis](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/08/RTX12L2X.jpg/RTX12L2X.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=Bkd9O862)
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![Israeli Arab men take part in a demonstration in support of the deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in the northern village of Kafar Kana July 13, 2013. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (ISRAEL - Tags: CIVIL UNREST) - RTX11LTN](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/08/1-RTX11LTN.jpg/1-RTX11LTN.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=isbfhQIG)
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![A view of the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City is seen from the Mount of Olives January 24, 2011. Palestinian negotiators secretly told Israel it could keep swathes of occupied East Jerusalem, according to leaked documents that show Palestinians offering much bigger peace concessions than previously revealed. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXWZNK](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/07/Jerusalem.jpg/Jerusalem.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=2D9FY-SA)
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