After Gaza and Jerusalem: What’s Next for Israel and Palestine Part 1

Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy

In this two-part Contours podcast, Newlines Institute’s Nicholas A. Heras explores the Palestinian-Israeli crisis with colleague Caroline Rose. They are first joined by Omar Rahman, an expert on the post-Oslo Accords era of this conflict. This episode examines the root causes of Palestinian grievances and explores the limited options available to residents of the West Bank and Gaza. Our second episode features Newlines Institute Fellow Elizabeth Tsurkov and the Shalom-Hartman Institute’s Yossi Klein. They engage in a spirited discussion about how perceptions of the crisis within Israel differ from perspectives globally, and how the U.S. must balance its relationship with Israel while still defending human rights. We hope that you will listen to both conversations and come away with a greater understanding of how this conflict is being perceived within and outside of the region. The unfolding civil crisis between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza is already having significant regional effects in both the Middle East and the international community. The eruption of violence between Israel and the Palestinian Territories has disrupted a series of Arab-Israeli normalization deals, initiated with the 2020 Abraham Accords, and the Biden administration’s planned pivot away from the Middle East as the United States focuses on great power competition. Newlines Institute for Policy and Strategy’s Senior Analyst and Head of the State Fragility and Resiliency Program Nicholas Heras sat down with Omar Rahman, a respected analyst and expert on post-Oslo era Palestinian politics at the Brookings Doha Center, and the Head of Newlines’ Power Vacuums program Senior Analyst Caroline Rose. The three took a deep dive into ongoing tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Territories, what this means for Palestinian political consensus, and the impact on regional geopolitics.