Analysis: Some Palestinians and Israelis want to see stronger public rhetoric from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his colleagues, messages that would communicate the new gravity of the moment.
that an earlier anti-Netanyahu coalition government in Israel would manage to hold its ground and lower the temperature around the Middle East’s most intractable conflict. But that seems a bet they lost — the fragile coalition, like fragile coalitions before it, collapsed and Netanyahu returned to power after elections last November with the most right-wing government in Israeli history.
In a joint news conference Monday alongside Netanyahu, Blinken gestured to the friction between Israel’s leader and the Biden administration. Hethat Netanyahu’s legislative plans to curb the power of the judiciary would be best served by a genuine public “consensus” and noted that “we have seen lately how vibrant Israeli civil society is” — a reference to the mass protests against Netanyahu’s government that have rocked Tel Aviv and other Israeli cities for the past month.
. “We share common interests, and common values,” the Israeli leader said before Blinken. “We will remain, I assure you, two strong democracies.” Those common interests were high on Blinken’s own agenda — chiefly, shared concerns over Iran and the advances of its nuclear program, as well as shared aspirations for greater normalization of ties between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors. U.S.
Meanwhile, the enfeebled and unpopular Palestinian Authority, led by Abbas, is losing its grip over the West Bank, where many Palestinians now view the entity as an accomplice in the decades-old Israeli military occupation.
But the fig leaf of the peace process and the two-state solution is drying up. The Trump administration, which took many of its cues from the Jewish settler movement, touted a vision for peace that more or less
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