Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

The Oxford Research Group recently published a paper supporting the Arab Peace Initiative in an attempt to raise its profile and arguing that it strengthens Israel’s security interests. In fact, some of the recommendations discuss issues that the Reut Institute has dealt with:

The danger of inversion towards the Two State Solution – the paper warns that “changing facts on the ground are working against [the Two State Solution] promoting serious discussion amongst the Palestinians about a one state option”.

In recent months Reut has warned that the international community and Arab world may ultimately withdraw its support for the Two State Solution.

Putting Hamas in a Corner – the paper argues that reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah offers an opportunity to explore where Hamas would position itself on the Initiative and whether it could be broadened into an Islamic Peace Initiative.

However, in light of the on growing split between Hamas and Fatah and the fact that Hamas’s positions are becoming more extreme, is there a genuine chance that the movement might adopt this initiative?

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The End of the Arab Peace Initiative?