The bodies of three missing Israeli teens – Gil-Ad Shaer,16, Naftali Fraenkel, 16, and Eyal Yifrah, 19 – were found today in a West Bank field near the village of Halhul, not far from where they went missing on June 12. The Israeli government is meeting in an emergency cabinet session tonight to discuss an official response. Even though initial reports indicate the killing was not an official operation ordered by Hamas leadership, Israeli politicians have already increased calls to use the teens death as justification for “war” on the Palestinian political party.

Jodi Rudoren steps out of her comfort zone, and good for her, to portray a Palestinian mother of a boy killed by Israeli soldiers. But her article will leave readers thinking, Why can’t Palestinians and Israelis just get along? It all-but-ignores the occupation, and restrictions on Palestinian freedom.

Israeli bulldozers uprooted dozens of olive and fruit trees near Salfit, and Israel tightened its grip over East Jerusalem, with its 300,000 Palestinians as non-citizens

Alice Rothchild spends a tense night in a beautiful village in the West Bank as Israeli soldiers raid it in response to the disappearance of the three Israeli teens. She meditates on the question, Who is the terrorist?

Here’s why they hate us and why we can’t possibly lift our boot off their necks– Richard Landes, an associate professor of history at Boston University, rationalizes the Israeli occupation with woolgathering fantastic exploration of Arab honor-culture and the traditional “dhimmi” status of Jews in the Middle East. But really, who’s dhimmi now?

Dexter Filkins, Richard Engel and Brooke Gladstone all see the secret Sykes Picot agreement of 1916 as fueling religious extremism in the Middle East today. When will they turn to the role of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, another construction of the imperial west that ignored self-determination

The surprises will end in the World Cup as of today, predicts Mondo soccer non-expert Phil Weiss. Brazil will get past Chile and France to go to the Finals. And the Netherlands is too strong for Mexico, Argentina and the U.S. But a politically-correct bracket sees Chile, Mexico, and Algeria advancing. And guess who wins between Algeria and France?

Israeli attacks on Gaza include ‘targeted assassination’ and shooting of teen collecting gravel for concrete

‘I was a Zionist till 2008. Can you believe it? I hate myself’ Tzvia Thier, who helped organize a demonstration against Israel’s “rampage” through the West Bank, explains how Zionism indoctrinates even leftwing Jews like herself. Jews must meet Palestinians, to understand how wrong their beliefs are.

“Big change is down the line,” writes Jonathan Katz, a young Jew deeply involved with the American Jewish community: The facts on the ground say that Israel cannot undo the settlement project, and a binational state is an inevitability. Let’s prepare ourselves, because nationalism is nothing to be supportive of.

The Shin Bet has identified Marwan Quasma, 29, and Amar Abu Eisha, 32 as suspected kidnappers, reportedly responsible for abducting 3 Jewish teenagers in the West Bank on June 12.

Canadian journalist Jo Roberts brings an anthropological eye to the collective memories of Palestinians and Israelis in her new book, Contested Land, Contested Memory, showing how myths impact geography, law, and education. A review by Brandon Davis, at Mondo.

In a story on anti-Semitism in France, the Washington Post features a video from performer Dieudonne M’bala in which Dieudonne puts himself int he shoes of a Palestinian suicide bomber. Dieudonne expresses passionate anti-Zionism; there is nothing in his sketch against Jews. Such confusion muddies the water on an important question.