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In Brief: Annexation plans hit bump as settler leaders protest Trump plan map

Posted 28 May, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  Hardline leaders of Israel's settlement movement are threatening to derail Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts to annex parts of the West Bank. The prime minister told his Likud party on Monday that he intended to press ahead with applying Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley (pictured) after 1 July. "This is an opportunity…

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In Brief: Israel planning to let 83,000 Palestinians return to work in construction

Posted 20 May, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Palestinian Territories
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Israel is planning to allow 83,000 Palestinians to return to work on construction sites in the country after 31 May. The move - which would provide a much-needed boost to both the Israeli and Palestinian economies - comes more than two months after tight…

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In Brief: Doubts raised over Abbas’ claim PA is ditching Oslo over annexation

Posted 20 May, 2020 in Analysis, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons President Mahmoud Abbas announced yesterday that the Palestinian Authority has effectively pulled out of the 1993 Oslo Agreements and said Israel would now have to assume responsibility for the civilian Palestinian population of the West Bank. The president, who has threatened such a move on a number of occasions…

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Analysis: Israel’s new government takes shape

Posted 14 May, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Image: איציק אדרי-Itzik Edri, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons The painstaking process of assembling a new Israeli government is due to culminate in its swearing-in tomorrow. Israel has had a caretaker government since late 2018 when the first of three closely fought, inconclusive elections was triggered. The third of those elections in early March eventually led to…

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Analysis: Israel announces big coronavirus unlock amid positive international comparisons

Posted 7 May, 2020 in Analysis, Israel
CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Nearly two months after it commenced a stringent lockdown, Israel appears to be turning a corner in the fight against the coronavirus. The number of new cases over 24-hour periods has consistently been below 200 since the start of last week. On Sunday night, Israel…

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Analysis: Annexation, the opposition

Posted 29 April, 2020 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Image: Kryptozh, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The release of Donald Trump’s much-delayed Middle East peace plan in January was a nakedly political bid to boost Benjamin Netanyahu’s chances of re-election. After the conclusion of a “unity government” agreement last week, Netanyahu is guaranteed at least another 18 months as Israel’s prime minister. In that period, he appears…

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Analysis: Netanyahu-Gantz talks go down to the wire

Posted 15 April, 2020 in Analysis, Israeli Politics
Photo: Matankic, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The roller-coaster path to the formation of a new Israeli government took new twists and turns over the last week, with Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz today locked in last-ditch negotiations ahead of a midnight deadline. Gantz’s 28-day mandate to form a government – issued to him by President…

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