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Yossi Mekelberg
Yossi Mekelberg is professor of international relations and an associate fellow of the MENA Program at Chatham House. He is a regular contributor to the international written and electronic media.
Twitter: @YMekelberg
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Knesset’s rejection of Palestinian state further alienates Israel’s allies
In an utterly unnecessary act of defiance, Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, last month voted by a decisive majority to reject the establishment of a Palestinian state and, with it, the notion of a two-state solution to the more than century-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Far-right rioters expose a much deeper schism in British society
For now, peace and order have been restored to the streets of the UK after one of the ugliest episodes of far-right, ultranationalist mobs attacking mosques and hotels that host asylum seekers, assaulting police officers, and looting shops and other businesses.
Israeli far right’s ‘miracle’ is a disaster for everyone else
It would take extreme (and probably unfounded) optimism, or more probably sheer insanity, to find any positives in what is currently taking place between Israel and the Palestinians. To portray it as a “miracle†brings insane ideological extremism to new heights altogether.
