The Strategist: Prospects for Israeli–Palestinian peace more remote than ever

To remember

• Israel + Palestinian Authority > confronting internal challenges => cast shadows over their futures, + fast-rising tensions between the two sides = approaching a breaking point.
• Benjamin Netanyahu + extreme ultra-Orthodox + right-wing parties = determined to change very nature of Israel’s constitutional order.
• politicise judiciary + strip it of its most important powers
• threatening to eliminate any remaining possibility of achieving a sustainable two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian question.
• Isaac Herzog warned > risk of civil war cannot be dismissed.
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict challenged by fundamentalist forces
• entering season of Ramadan (March 22 – April 20) + Passover (April 5–13) +> passions bound to rise even further.
• this year > at least 100 people already killed in various West Bank clashes so far, + civilians on both sides fallen victim to terrorist attacks.

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Preceding

1. Weekly World Watch 6th – 12th June 2010
2. Israel the Oil and Gas Opportunity
3. Israel not building up their weaponry for nothing
4. Netanyahu Election Tactics Spark Apology and Rebuke
5. Lacking legitimacy in the eyes of his people
6. WWW on our position 50 years after Israel captured Jerusalem during the Six Day War.
7. Russia Interested in Consultations With Israel on Security in Middle East
8. Iran could build nuclear bomb ‘within months’
9. Iranian mouthpiece threatens Israel with map of targets
10. Apartheid South Africa and Israel’s Treatment of the Palestinians – Modern Parallels
11. AJC Global Forum 2022: World at crossroads Democracy versus Tyranny
12. Mondoweiss: The Palestinian Authority is a figleaf for Israeli apartheid. Disband it.
13. Why Israel’s annexation of the West Bank should worry every human rights defender: self-determination as integral to basic human rights

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Additional reading

1. Loving your neighbour as yourself and Israel and Palestine
2. The corpus separatum and Mahmoud Abbas
3. Iran’s days of setting Middle East on fire are over
4. We are living in a time of “universal deceit”
5. Book: How Jewish terrorism created Israel
6. Israel the Oil and Gas Opportunity (Our World)
7. Holy land Christian exodus
8. Israel not building up their weaponry for nothing (Our World)
9. Netanyahu Election Tactics Spark Apology and Rebuke (Our World)
10. Lacking legitimacy in the eyes of his people (Our World)
11. Safe Distance program entire communities being evacuated to pre-determined locations
12. Weekly World Watch 24th – 30th May 2015
13. Silence of the world about rocket attacks on Israel
14. Propaganda war and ISIS
15. Collapse of the proposed compromise over the Kotel
16. Signs of the times – “The miracle of Israel”
17. Signs of the times – “Gaza – once more a flashpoint”
18. Signs of the times – “Protests, rockets and incendiary kites”
19. Signs of the times – “Israel’s security and the Golan Heights”
20. Signs of the times – “Israel’s security”
21. Israel 2021 update
22. Israel holding a national war exercise
23. Israel ready for war
24. First joint naval exercise by Israel and Gulf states signals Iran worries
25. Weekly World Watch 1-7 August: UK and US – Iran, Israel, Elam and Media
26. Settlers braking into the courtyards of the Al-Aqsa Mosque
27. Women their education and chances to become a parliamentary
28. As there is a lot of division in Christendom there is too in Judaism
29. Analysis: Will religious freedom flourish in post-treaty Middle East?
30. The Place of destructive games of both the Israeli government and Hamas
31. At UN, Abbas Gives Israel One-year Ultimatum
32. Signs of the Times – On manoeuvres
33. Another Jewish Voice on Trump’s plan: No peace without equality and mutual respect
34. Deal of the century or roadmap to apartheid?
35. Deal or no deal
36. An American Embassy to the Eternal Capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem
37. Trump-era spike in Israeli settlement growth has only begun
38. Trump Dragging the Jews and Israel into the scrum, using both as one more weapon in his racist rants.
39. Israel featured twice on list of potential 2022 conflicts
40. Israel weighing options amid deepening Russia-Ukraine crisis
41. Trilateral naval drills between China, Russia and Iran started on Friday
42. U.S. Mideast naval exercise and fighter jets in the Gulf region
43. The decline in Israel-Russia ties
44. Russia takes issue with Israel’s sovereignty over Golan Heights and Jerusalem
45. Russia ‘sends a message’ with first missile attack on Israeli jets in Syrian war, expert says

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Related

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2. Day 17: Some Laws are Meant to Be Broken
3. New US embassy may be in Jerusalem — but not in Israel
4. UN Blacklist: Why Israel is doing everything it can to thwart the UN Human Rights Council
5. What if . . . ?
6. Seeking protection for the Palestinians at the UN empowers the criminals
7. Exploiting Gaza tops the UN’s humanitarian agenda
8. Goods produced in Israeli settlements are not “Made in Israel,” says European Court of Justice
9. Israel’s growing settlements force stark choices about its future
10. Trump is systematically ending the viability of a future Palestinian state
11. Trump crushes Palestinian hopes — again
12. Forensic Architecture Finds Israeli Occupation Is Destroying Major Palestinian Archeological Site
13. Thousands March in Occupied Territories Demanding Release of Bodies of Palestinians
14. Nations unite to call for halt to Israel’s West Bank expansion

Levant's Agora

By Carl Bildt.

A massive double crisis is emerging between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority are confronting internal challenges that have cast shadows over their futures, and fast-rising tensions between the two sides are approaching a breaking point.

In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu has returned to power by allying himself with extreme ultra-Orthodox and right-wing parties that are determined to change the very nature of Israel’s constitutional order. Among other things, the government is pursuing reforms that will politicise the judiciary and strip it of its most important powers, as well as threatening to eliminate any remaining possibility of achieving a sustainable two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian question.

Meanwhile, Israelis have taken to the streets en masse to protest the government’s proposals. In a recent speech unveiling his own ‘people’s directive’ to end the crisis, Israeli President Isaac Herzog warned that the risk of…

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