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Recent statements by official leaders of Israel’s Arab citizens reflect increased reference to ‘outstanding issues’ between Israel and the Palestinians and an attempt to take a more senior role in the Palestinian National Movement.

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Yesterday’s blog about Palestinian unilateralism touched on the potential relevancy gap Israel finds itself in. In this context, an article by David Horowitz touches on two precedents – Kosovo and Lithuania – which are useful in understanding how the international community may respond to a Palestinian unilateral declaration.

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Recent trends regarding Palestinian threats to unilaterally declare a state coupled with Israel’s response to them suggest a potential relevancy gap (the gap between a mindset and divergent reality). This gap could ultimately lead to Israel being strategically surprised.

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During their recent trip to London, two Reut analysts – Eran Shayshon and Calev Ben Dor spoke to students at York University about the future of the Israeli-Palestinian political process and answered questions from the floor about current events.  Click here to hear the audio recording of the event and watch the powerpoint presentation.

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An interesting article by Aluf Benn in Haaretz maps out the dilemmas facing Israel’s leaders and suggests that a Palestinian State in Provisional Borders (PSPB) might be the most practicable arrangement, either through mutual agreement or a unilateral Israeli decision.

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In analyzing a Delegitimization Network operating mostly in the West with an agenda opposed to the State of Israel as an embodiment of the Jewish right to self-determination, the Reut Institute has long tracked the rise of rhetoric promoting a One-State Solution – based on the principle ‘one man, one vote’ – to the Israeli [...]

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In a Foreign Affairs essay, veteran Israeli political commentator Ehud Yaari suggests a policy alternative aimed at breaking the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Yaari promotes the idea of abandoning an exclusive focus on achieving a final-status agreement in the short term. The pragmatic alternative, he elaborates in a complementary Foreign Affairs interview, is [...]

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The Reut Political-Security team’s current project explores what we perceive to be a global trend advancing Israel’s fundamental political delegitimization. One manifestation of this trend is the growing intensity of mainstream calls to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a One-State Solution, an outcome that would effectively eliminate Israel as a Jewish state.

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A unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence (UDI) is one of two options mentioned by Fatah in the case of negotiations failing (the other being support for a bi-national state). Yet following Salam Fayyad’s paper on building a Palestinian state, several commentators suggest that the international community may support such a policy of Palestinian unilateralism.

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Last week, the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad unveiled a plan for the de-facto establishment of Palestinian state in two years, thus strengthening the logic of a ‘Palestinian State First’ in the West Bank. 

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