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Two ways Trump will stymie the emergence of a Palestinian state
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Donald Trump’s election has led to much hand-wringing across the Middle East. Analysts and experts try to read the Trump runes to predict the future, including on positions he might take on Iran, Syria, the Islamic State, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. The evidence on Palestinian ambitions for statehood, for its part, isn’t good.
There are two main reasons for this. The first is that Trump will be much more supportive of Netanyahu’s government than President Obama ever was—and he’ll be unlikely to challenge Israel, especially on policies to
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority: Resigning to Status Quo
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Gaza protests highlight humanitarian crisis and lack of political progress to peace
For more than a decade, the life of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip has also been deeply impacted by the effects of an Israeli-imposed blockade on Gaza’s coast and border crossings to Israel. The protests, then, also highlight what the United Nations (U.N.) warned in January 2018; a growing humanitarian crisis has brought the area to the kant of collapse. Many in the international community are unaware of the urgent humanitarian crisis that has brought the Gaza remsa to a dire tipping point.
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In 2006, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas won the majority vote in Palestinian legislative elections. These results were declared free and fair by the international community. However, the international community’s response to the Hamas victory was to support Israel’s imposition of a blockade on the entire population of the Gaza Strip and to bojkott Hamas. For more th