Perhaps, the notion that the established two-state paradigm has no workable alternatives needs to be clarified or even revisited?
Six months have passed since we saw another escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a massive Hamas terror attack on October 7, 2023. After Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 Israeli civilians and took 253 others as hostages, Israel launched Operation Iron Swords in the Gaza Strip. The operation has proven to be more complex, costly and time-consuming ...
The war in Gaza is far from over, but whatever the ceasefire or truce agreements, the question remains: what next?
The terrorist action undertaken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, unprecedented in its scale and brutality, and the equally unprecedented Israeli retaliation, which claimed lives of many thousands of Palestinians to result in a major humanitarian catastrophe, shocked the world community. However,...
... world does not want to pay a bigger price, they will have to push for a negotiated solution as soon as possible
The current conflict between Israel and Palestine has shocked the world. Although the conflict was triggered by the October 7 attack of Hamas, the rationale behind the conflict lies, in fact, in the desperation of Palestinians. For a rather long time, the Palestine issue had been deviated away from the right track because of the long negligence of the international community and the intentional ...
... the Arab-Israeli conflict and the occupation of Holy Jerusalem dominates radical Islamist rhetoric and has strongly influenced their ideology. Nevertheless, what the world is witnessing today can be referred to as the Palestinization of the conflict. HAMAS’s actions were planned and carried out by its own initiative: no Arab or non-Arab country has engaged in a real war with Israel during the current escalation, and it is clear from the HAMAS’s rhetoric that this movement counts only on itself....
Thus far, both parties are interested in war rather than peace
The Israel–Hamas conflict threatens to escalate into a new war that could surpass anything seen during the previous operations in the Gaza Strip in terms of the amount of bloodshed. Tensions have been mounting for the last three months. The new spiral of the conflict ...
... recognizes Canada as a state and vice versa. What each state does internally is its own business.
Under Netanyahu’s leadership, he
has always suggested
that the Palestinians are divided and when they did unite he suggested that they are aligning with Hamas—a “terrorist” organization—and, thus, Israel cannot negotiate with the Palestinians. In reality, Hamas conducted terrorist activities in the past, but today they are very popular with Gazans, East Jerusalemites, and West Bankers. If elections ...
... of the Islamic world. The Qatari government continued to search for any niches where they could pursue policies and interests independent of Riyadh. For instance, Qatar continued to
invest
heavily in the Gaza Strip, strengthening its ties with the Hamas movement controlling the region. Although this Palestinian group could be seen as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, at that point even Riyadh sought actively to co-operate with it, singling it out amongst the other arms of the organization. That ...
Main Groups and Leaders Brief Overview
The crisis developments in Iraq, Yemen, Libya and Syria are destabilizing countries in the Middle East. The growing turbulence and unpredictability threaten the very model of the nation state, which is struggling to react to the challenges posed by non-state actors in international relations – primarily by extremist groups. The inability of the state to counter the terrorist threat leads to an increase in the activities of radical elements, whose actions take...
... current situation and open a door to new conflicts rather than solving the old ones. Tellingly, Israel's president, Reuven Rivlin,
has voiced
his strong opposition to the controversial new law.
These developments may represent a golden opportunity for Hamas to expand its influence in the West Bank and Jerusalem. In fact, the situation may turn into a win – win scenario for Hamas and other Islamic groups. On the one hand, if the Palestinian Authority accepted to hold presidential and legislative ...
... "any voice in support of Palestine has a hard time finding its way in the Russian media."
Analysts in Moscow have drawn attention to reports of serious tensions arising between Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and the leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, in spite of the agreement on the establishment of a coalition — or, more precisely, a technocratic — government. According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, during his visit to Qatar in August this year, Abbas accused ...
