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اعتبر تقرير إسرائيلي أن اللقاء بين حركتي فتح وحماس في إسطنبول، في 24 أيلول/سبتمبر الماضي، تعكس الخطورة التي توليها قيادتا الحركتين للتطورات الأخيرة "التي تزيل القضية الفلسطينية عن رأس الأجندة الإقليمية": "صفقة القرن"، مخطط الضم، اتفاقيتا التحالف وتطبيع العلاقات بين إسرائيل وبين الإمارات والبحرين، ورفض وزراء الخارجية العرب التنديد باتفاقيتي التطبيع وانحرافهما عن مبادئ مبادرة...

“In every criteria that I’m trying to assess it, it’s disastrous. In security, in diplomacy, in Israel’s legitimization in the international community, in the internal schism that he would create in Israel,’’ says Gilead Sher, a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies who was a peace negotiator two decades ago under former Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said Wednesday that a special panel would be established in the coming days to examine specific issues relating to the imposition of Israeli sovereignty on areas of Yehudah and Shomron and on the Jordan Valley. “History knocked on our door Tuesday and gave us a one-time opportunity to impose Israeli law on all settlements,” Bennett said at a...

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz, who endorsed the U.S. peace plan while in Washington, said Wednesday that he intends to bring it to a vote in the Knesset next week, the Times of Israel reported. “This is a historic opportunity to draw Israel’s future borders,” Gantz during a speech at an Institute for National Security Studies conference.

“Last night, people around the prime minister announced that the decision on sovereignty [over the Jordan Valley and settlements] would come to a vote on Sunday. This morning we’re hearing a different tune,” Bennett said, speaking at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies think tank in Tel Aviv. The defense minister, who is head of the Yamina...

Former IDF intelligence chief and INSS executive director Amos Yadlin said of US President Donald Trump's peace plan that, “it is not a peace plan, and I am not sure that it is even a basis for a peace plan.” Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies conference, Yadlin said that the parameters of the deal were fantastic for Israel, but that “the concessions for...

President Donald Trump went to great lengths on Tuesday to present his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan — his “deal of the century” — as novel and even groundbreaking. But if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that we’ve seen much of it before.

Despite threats from the EU-3 to trigger snap back UN sanctions on Iran if it does not return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic will likely reject a new “Trump deal” for the time being, a former Mossad official said on Tuesday. Former top Mossad analyst and current INSS fellow Sima Shine wrote a position paper stating, “even if Iran chooses to take...