Publications

Short-term Ceasefires in Middle East Conflicts to Prevent Humanitarian Disaster

A new publication about Israeli Foreign Policy in 2020

The author gives numerous explanations for the decline range of the Israeli left: from what might be called a primordial approach – a deeply nationalist and perhaps ultimately illiberal nature of the Israeli political culture – to a historic focus on the failure of the peace process with the Palestinians from the 1990s.

In recent years, the idea of annexation of some parts or the entire West Bank has gained growing popularity in Israeli mainstream politics. During the three election campaigns of 2019 and 2020, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to promote such an annexation if re-elected into office.

“Annexation" has been an idea entertained by, flirted with, and used as leverage by Israel essentially since immediately after the Six Days War in 1967.

A new publication about Israeli Foreign Policy in 2019

A new publication of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Israel

The author Gabriel Mitchell is the US Representative of Mitvim