The international community can help avert future chaos through measures to stem political, economic, and security deterioration, and Washington can reinstate funding for Palestinian development projects. Since mid-October, demonstrators have been gathering regularly at the Palestinian prime minister’s office in Ramallah to protest the new social security law. Implementation was first set for November 1… Keep reading →
The Palestinian president has maneuvered his way back into the political discussion — partly as a result of Israel’s failure to act promptly on diplomatic understandings with Jordan — but his call for “escalatory measures” could carry dire consequences. In a bid to reestablish his diplomatic and political relevance, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on July… Keep reading →
The following is based on remarks delivered by Ziegler Distinguished Fellow David Makovsky at a Washington Institute Policy Forum on February 8. His views on these issues are spelled out in greater length in the Transition 2017 paper “Toward a New Paradigm for Addressing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” coauthored with Dennis Ross. Read Robert Satloff’s remarks… Keep reading →
