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Climate change in the Middle East will amplify preexisting vulnerabilities stemming from conflict, displacement, marginalization, and corruption, while also creating new risks. Governments in the region will need to adopt more inclusive reforms as part of their climate adaptation strategies.
While a negotiated political solution between Israelis and Palestinians is not on the horizon, policymakers must work to ensure that civic spaces in the region and in the United States are free and open so that people with a range of interests can be heard.
The Palestinian national movement is in crisis. Divided between a Hamas-controlled Gaza and a Palestinian Authority that has lost credibility with the West Bank population it partially controls, the movement lacks not only cohesion but an effective strategy to bring about an end to Israeli occupation.
In an interview, Giovanni Fassina and Alice Garcia discuss why a controversial definition is penalizing support for Palestinian rights.
The battle over Israel’s democracy may further inflame conflict with the Palestinians.
Debating Israel’s One-State Reality
To explore the impact of the Nakba on Palestinian and Israeli societies today, and to recognize Palestinian rights and self-determination, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center (MHKCMEC) is organizing a panel discussion on May 19, at 4:30 PM EEST. Among the participants will be vice president for studies at Carnegie, Marwan Muasher, Nur Arafeh, Sarah Whitson and Omar Shakir.
Since Israel withdrew its troops and settlers from Gaza in 2005 to escape the burdens of an occupation, the Israel Defense Forces have undertaken no less than 15 significant military operations. Indeed, an even more threatening Israeli-Palestinian conflagration looms.
For Palestinians, Israel’s 75th anniversary only brings home the need for a rights-based solution to their dispossession.
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