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  • Americans feel the need to be extra careful when discussing Israel-Palestine

    The poll also found that most Americans who think Israeli actions were not justified say the United States is at least partly responsible for Israeli military actions in Gaza, and that more Democrats and independents say Israel has gone too far in Gaza, while more Republicans say Israel is simply defending itself.

  • Can U.S. Diplomacy Promote Peace in the Israel-Palestine War?

    Moreover, the Americans have also continued to back the idea of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip that would live in peace side-by-side with the Jewish State, the so-called “two-state solution.” It’s an idea that also enjoys support among 35 percent of the Israeli public and the center-left political parties. However, the current Likud-led Israeli government rejects it. From that perspective, the United States may be in a position very much like in 1973 to promote a creative diplomatic approach in the Middle East. This would build both on Israel’s military strength and the containment of Iran while helping the Palestinians achieve their goal of political independence and economic recovery.

  • Israel-Palestine war: Riled by Israel’s Gaza plans, Egypt pushes back

    Egypt is telling the US that Israel’s stated goal to remove Hamas from governing the Gaza Strip is an unrealistic war aim, according to sources familiar with the matter. The warnings are being delivered regularly by Egyptian officials as Cairo rebuffs US overtures to take on a potential future security role in the besieged enclave and Israeli calls to accept a forced displacement of Palestinians. The warnings underscore Egypt’s desire for a speedy end to the war raging across its border, but also how Cairo has staked out a more assertive stance to the conflict than some Israeli and western officials anticipated.

  • Opinion: Why Hezbollah Is Holding Back on Entering the Israel-Palestine War

    Nasrallah is clearly satisfied at the shock and disorientation Hamas’ killings provoked and raised a crucial point: Israel’s perceived habit of responding to provocations with maximalist positions that they are then forced to climb down from. The example he used was the 2006 Lebanon war, when the Israelis tried to force Hezbollah to return kidnapped soldiers through large-scale military action, only to have to agree to a humbling prisoner swap after a strong performance by Hezbollah. Unlike Hamas, Hezbollah (and Iran) do have some history of inflicting strategic setbacks on Israel, especially in Lebanon, at least at some critical junctures. In his speech Nasrallah urged Hamas to see the “resistance” as unfolding in discrete stages and to focus on immediate achievements. This is consistent with the broader “resistance” view to which Nasrallah, who remains a true believer despite his Lebanese political cynicism, subscribes.

  • Oil prices react to Israel-Palestine conflict because of Iran, the Middle East

    The fighting has had no immediate effect on the world’s oil supply. Israel has “virtually no crude oil and condensate production,” as per the US Energy Information Agency (EIA), which pegs the nation’s annual oil producing capacity at just 300,000 barrels per day. (In contrast, the US has a capacity of 18.1 million.) The Palestinian territories, too, produce next to no oil.

  • Egypt in talks with Saudi Arabia, Jordan to de-escalate Israel-Palestine situation 

    Egypt is in talks with Saudi Arabia and Jordan in a bid to defuse Palestinian-Israeli tensions, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Saturday. Egypt’s foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, in phone calls with his Saudi and Jordanian counterparts, underlined the importance of “uniting international and regional efforts” to contain the escalating violence, a statement read.

  • Coronavirus ‘feeds off instability’, disrupting Israel-Palestine peace efforts

    With a significant tightening of restrictions in Israel and Gaza, a state of emergency extension throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPt), the resurgence of COVID-19 has “seriously compounded the humanitarian and economic challenges on the ground”, Mr. Mladenov informed the Council. And while UN-brokered arrangements continue to allow medical patients to be transferred from Gaza to hospitals beyond, and humanitarian supplies into the enclave, the Palestine Authority’s (PA) decision to halt coordination with Israel remains.

  • Full transcript: Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s interview on Israel-Palestine conflict

    Prince Bandar is Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to the US and served as director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014 and the head of the National Security Council from 2005 to 2015.

  • Israel-Palestine
    US won’t insist on two-state solution to Israel-Palestine conflict, White House official says

    The United States will not insist on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict in the Middle East, a White House official has said.

  • Israel-Palestine
    John Kerry to launch new bid for Israel-Palestine peace

    Secretary of State John Kerry plans to make a last-ditch effort this weekend to convince Israel to restart stalled peace talks before President Barack Obama leaves office, CNN has learned.