Palestine
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A lot of details remain to be worked out, but this is still a really big agreement.
This week’s Worldly episode explores why Israel backed down and what that means for the two-state solution.
The politics and the potential problems ahead.
Why the conflict is escalating and where it could go from here.
Israeli forces have a pattern of not compensating Palestinian journalists they injure.
An expert explains Palestinian leaders’ options after Trump revealed his peace plan.
Kushner’s main talking point on the peace deal highlights the whole problem with it.
“The real threat to peace is if the plan succeeds,” an expert told Vox.
The proposal destroys the prospects for any real deal and brings Israel meaningfully closer to “apartheid.”
Some experts say it’s dead on arrival.
Millions visit Bethlehem every Christmas. But Palestinians who live there are struggling to survive.
“Trump picked loyalists who knew little about the conflict to help resolve one of the most intractable conflicts in the world,” an expert said.
It’s not going well.
Trump advisor Jared Kushner still hasn’t unveiled his Middle East peace plan, but an interview with Axios leaves even more questions.
Buttigieg’s staunch support of Israel bucks the Democratic party’s trend.
It’s the latest attempt to pressure Palestinians to participate in a US-sponsored peace plan.
“I’m honestly surprised we haven’t seen a full-blown war yet,” one expert said.
The message of the Gaza protests is that Palestinians are human beings.
It’s the national representative of the Palestinian people (nominally), and runs the government in the West Bank but not in Gaza.
Israel’s current capital, which Palestinians claim part of for their future capital, is home to holy sites for both Judaism and Islam.
An Arab word for “catastrophe,” it signals a mass eviction from the 1940s that created a refugee crisis.
In brief, it’s Israel’s national ideology, with Judaism serving as both a nationality and religion.
European Jews arrived at Zionism partly because of rising antisemitic persecution.
Israel, the West Bank, and potentially even Gaza could become a single de facto state.
“Oslo” is an ongoing American-mediated effort to broker a peace treaty between the two populations.
In one BBC poll of 22 countries, Israel was the fourth-most-disliked nation, behind only Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea.
Why the US and Israel have had such a close relationship for so long.
They were two Palestinian uprisings against Israel.
Hamas is a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since 1987.
A comprehensive guide to the basics of the world’s most controversial conflict.
Mahmoud Abbas’s last stand.
The crisis at the Temple Mount continued over the weekend. A fragile resolution was reached late Monday evening.
Indian Prime Minister Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu shared a romantic walk on the beach Thursday.
Ayman Odeh believes a shared future is not only still possible, it is the only option.
Issuing last-minute “parameters” to guide a peace agreement won’t achieve much
President-elect Trump just gave a green light to Israeli settlement building.
Why Israeli settlements don’t feel like a conflict zone.
They had a debate about not just Israel but about Palestinians — something that rarely happens.
“What we’re seeing here are the seeds of transformation of a national political conflict that can be solved into a religious conflict that cannot be solved.”