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LEANING RIGHT It s hard to think of a better reason growing Mideast war and violence to miss the policies of the past Administration (whether you hated or loved or just tolerated the last commander-in-chief) than what s gone on in just four months after President Joe Biden took office.
As with President Barack Obama, the idea of reaching out to Iran and terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah has proven a ridiculous, outrageous, and downright DANGEROUS policy that is getting people killed as much under President Joe Biden as with President Obama. Iran and Hamas just CANNOT be trusted and giving them money is as ridiculous now as it was before.
The escalation between Israel and Hamas: What’s new and what’s not
LOD, ISRAEL - MAY 12, 2021: Cars burned during clashes between Israeli Arabs and Jewish residents in the city of Lod; a state of emergency was declared in Lod on May 11. Andrei Shirokov/TASS.No use Russia.
The current escalation between Israel and the Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions was not generated in a vacuum. While the intensity of the fighting appears to have caught some veteranpractitioners of Middle East conflict and diplomacy by surprise, a trail of discernable factors led to this fraught outcome.
April witnessed repeated clashes near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, where Israeli police took measures to prevent Palestinians from congregating after evening prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The restrictions, which were implemented ostensibly to preclude an outbreak of violence, had the opposite result. A clip uploaded that month to TikTok with Palestinian teenagers filming thems
The Israel-Palestine Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Portents
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The confrontations across Israel-Palestine are well on the way to becoming one of the worst spasms of violence there in recent memory. In this Q&A, Crisis Group experts explain what is behind the explosive events and where they might lead.
How serious is the most recent flare-up in the conflict?
It is extremely serious, partly because it is taking place on several fronts at once: Israeli police actions against Palestinians protesting home evictions or praying at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, cross-border fighting between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza, marches from Jordan on the West Bank border, and violence in Israel’s mixed cities – towns with significant numbers of Jewish and Palestinian citizens. Combined, these confrontations are well on their way to becoming one of the worst spasms in the recent history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The flare-up could get worse still, namely if Is
Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to hold onto power as prime minister.
It wasn’t looking good for Netanyahu before the conflict escalated, with two minority parties having agreed to form a coalition to oust Bibi. But on May 13, Yamina party Chair
Naftali Bennett, who had a nearly done deal with Yesh Atid party Chair
Yair Lapid, told Lapid the deal was off.
The collapse of the prospect for a so-called government of change, based on nothing more than a shared desire to defeat Bibi, is the direct outcome of violent clashes in mixed Jewish-Arab towns this week, writes
Lapid still has until June 2 to form a government before the process is turned over to the Knesset (parliament). If the parliament can’t decide, there will be a fifth election, which would take months and Bibi would remain prime minister in the interim.