News Roundup for December 11, 2025
The GOP’s Transactional Recast of the US–Israel Relationship, Times of Israel
J Street Israel Executive Director Nadav Tamir writes, “Since [1962], Israeli discourse has tended to view the Republican Party as Israel’s main base of support in the United States and to criticize the Democratic Party. However, the reality highlights how mistaken this perception is and indeed is the opposite of reality.”
[Watch] Ambassador Dan Shapiro on How US Leverage Shapes Israeli Policy, Word on the Street
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami and Chief Policy Officer Ilan Goldenberg sat down with former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro to discuss US-Israel policy, regional developments and Democratic strategy.
Winter Storm Rips Through Gaza, Exposing Failure to Deliver Enough Aid to Territory, AP
“‘We have been drowned. I don’t have clothes to wear and we have no mattresses left,’ said Um Salman Abu Qenas, a mother displaced from east of Khan Younis to a tent camp in Deir al-Balah. She said her family could not sleep the night before because of the water in the tent.”
Under Israeli Pressure, US Bars Foreign Envoys to Palestinian Authority From Gaza Coordination Center, Haaretz
“The first country whose head of mission to the Palestinian Authority was effectively barred from the U.S. center was the Netherlands, after its representative visited twice. According to diplomatic sources, the same restriction was later applied to Belgium’s representative to Ramallah and to France’s consul general in Jerusalem, who also oversees relations with the Palestinian Authority.”
Amnesty Says Hamas Attacks and Gaza Hostage Treatment Amount to Crimes Against Humanity, Reuters
“Its investigation found that the crimes against humanity included murder, extermination, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual abuse and inhumane acts.”
Trump Plans to Appoint US General to Lead Gaza Security Force, Axios
“The appointment will further increase the U.S. responsibility for securing and rebuilding Gaza, which is turning into the biggest U.S. political-civilian-military project in the Middle East in more than two decades.”
Israel Blocks Cancer Treatment for Five-Year-Old Palestinian Boy in West Bank Over Gaza-Registered Address, Haaretz
“A response from the Israeli Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories that was filed in court on Wednesday states that the boy can enter Jordan from the West Bank via the Allenby Bridge for treatment in a third country.”
I Used to Report From the West Bank. Twenty Years After My Last Visit, I Was Shocked by How Much Worse It Is Today, The Guardian
Ewen MacAskill writes, “I saw the flags on my way to visit those villages, the morning after they were put up. Their message echoed the ubiquitous graffiti painted by settlers across the West Bank: ‘You have no future in Palestine.'”
