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Oct 17, 2026 · @Hannan Lis Europe is not sanctioning Israel because of what Israel does. It is sanctioning Israel because of what Europe did. In May, EU foreign ministers agreed unanimously to sanction Israeli settlers in the West Bank, the first punitive measure the bloc has managed to pass since the Gaza war began. In September, Britain led a further round, and the Netherlands went further than anyone: a unilateral ban on every product from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and

Oct 17, 2026 · @Hannan Lis Islam is a faith. Islamism is a political program. Start with the distinction, because everything else depends on it. Islam is the religion of nearly two billion people, most of whom want what everyone wants: to raise their children in peace and prosper. Islamism is something else. It is a modern political ideology, born in the twentieth century with the Muslim Brotherhood and Khomeini's revolution, that treats religion as a blueprint for the state

17 Oct 2026 · @Hannan Lis The idea that keeps coming backIn my last piece I argued that the two-state solution cannot answer one question: what happens in year five, when a sovereign Palestinian state holds an election and Hamas wins. A deal strong enough to survive that is not a state. A state real enough to be called one cannot survive it. There is one model that answers the question. It is older than Oslo, it has been proposed by a king, rejected by everyone, and revived i

17 Oct 2026 · @Hannan Lis The question nobody asksEvery plan for a Palestinian state answers the same questions. Borders. Jerusalem. Refugees. Settlements. None of them answers the one that decides whether the deal lives: who signs it, and what happens when the signer loses. Run the thought experiment honestly. Israel agrees. A Palestinian state is declared between the Jordan River and the 1967 line, with land swaps, a capital in East Jerusalem, international guarantees, the

This Rosh Hashanah I listened to a dozen Metro Detroit rabbis. Over the summer I listened to the imams who put Abdul El-Sayed on their stages. The contrast is the whole story of this election.