March 20
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians: Options for Israel's Future

Israel has made peace with key Arab states but not with the Palestinians. Why not? The Oslo accords between Israel and the PLO failed to reach fruition. Over the years there have been repeated rounds of violence between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. In May 2021 serious violence erupted between Jews and Arabs in mixed towns inside Israel proper. The great majority of the Palestinians are located in the West Bank and Gaza , in Israel and in Jordan. Considering that reality, how should Israel relate to the resolution of the Palestinian question? 
What should Israel do about it?

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Israel's Place in a Rapidly Changing Regional Order Click to See that Talk

In its early years Israel was alone against the rest as it faced a more or less uniformly hostile Arab neighborhood. That is no longer true. The region has changed, Israel has made peace with two of its belligerent neighbors, Egypt and Jordan, and it has recently normalized relations with other important Arab States. The most serious threat to Israel today is not posed by the Arabs but by Iran, a non-Arab state, that in the past was friendly to Israel. So what are Israel's choices in this new strategic environment?

Asher Susser
Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU). He was the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at TAU for twelve years and taught for over thirty five years in TAU’s Department of Middle Eastern History.

He has been a Fulbright Fellow; a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, and the Stein Family Professor of Modern Israel Studies at the University of Arizona.

His most recent book is on The Emergence of the Modern Middle East (2017). He also wrote inter alia Israel, Jordan and Palestine: The Two-State Imperative (2012); Jordan: Case Study of a Pivotal State (2000); A Political Biography of Jordan’s Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tall (1994, reissued in 2017); and The Rise of Hamas in Palestine and the Crisis of Secularism in the Arab World (2010).

His online course on "The Emergence of the Modern Middle East" has been taken by some 120,000 students in over 160 countries.

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