Israel’s Hard Choice? Militarized Palestinian State or End of the Two State...
Amitai Etzioni’s article on the problems surrounding the demilitarization of a future Palestinian State touches on Israel’s challenge of preserving its security interests in a Permanent Status...
View ArticleReut Document: Reassessment of the Israeli Palestinian Political Process:...
The Reut Institute recently published a document which seeks to support the reassessment process of the Government regarding the Israeli-Palestinian political process . The document presents the main...
View ArticleNot So Special (Relations) Anymore..
This Israeli-US tension may have been avoided if Israel had developed a new strategy regarding the political process. It still may not be too late for Israel to do so and influence the policies of the...
View ArticleHow Viable is a Demilitarized Palestinian State?
PM Netanyahu’s Bar Ilan speech accepted a Palestinian state on the condition that it would be ‘demilitarized.’ Yet while this has been an accepted principle under the Clinton Parameters, Taba...
View ArticleThe Structure of Negotiations: The Issue of Safe Passage
A recent interview by Saeb Erekat inferred that the issue of safe passage between Gaza and the West Bank is included in the ‘territorial cluster’ of negotiation issues. However, Israel could achieve a...
View ArticlePalestinian Counter Terrorism and the Principle of Demilitarization
The Jerusalem Post reports that the IDF is considering allowing the Palestinians to establish a specially trained counter-terror squad qualified to carry out pinpoint operations against Hamas terrorist...
View Article‘Economic Peace’ and Security Gains in the West Bank could be Counterproductive
The Jerusalem Post discusses a new study published by the Peres Center for Peace, which argues that economic peace, though a helpful tool, cannot replace a political solution with the Palestinians. The...
View ArticleRethinking Aspects of the Two State Solution
Interesting analysis by Rob Malley and Hussein Agha on the problems of negotiating and implementing a Two State Solution raise questions as to the optimum structure of the political process and raise...
View ArticleMaintaining the viability of the Two-State Solution: Proposal for a third way...
In a Foreign Affairs essay, veteran Israeli political commentator Ehud Yaari suggests a policy alternative aimed at breaking the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Yaari promotes the...
View ArticleThe Kosovo and Lithuanian Precedents and Palestinian Unilateralism
Yesterday’s blog about Palestinian unilateralism touched on the potential relevancy gap Israel finds itself in. In this context, an article by David Horowitz touches on two precedents – Kosovo and...
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