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Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy
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Delayed Palestinian Polls, Israeli Politics and U.S. Middle East Policy

Hold Your Fire! · International Crisis Group

May 6, 202142m 57s

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Show Notes

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood and Naz Modirzadeh talk to Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project, which works in partnership with Crisis Group on Israel/Palestine. They talk about why President Mahmoud Abbas indefinitely postponed Palestinian elections, and why not holding the vote is a wasted opportunity and a disappointment to many Palestinians. They discuss recent Israeli elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s struggles to form a government and whether those make any difference to Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians. They also talk about what the Biden administration’s Israel/Palestine policy might entail, prospects for a “rights-based” approach and the recent Human Rights Watch report that labels Israeli policies toward the Palestinians as “apartheid”. 

For more information,  explore Crisis Group’s analysis on our Israel/Palestine page. 


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