Judy Asks: Is the Two-State Solution Feasible?

The war between Israel and Hamas makes the two-state solution less viable than ever before. Achieving peace requires political will, compromise, and initiative from the international community.

The war between Israel and Hamas makes the two-state solution less viable than ever before. Achieving peace requires political will, compromise, and initiative from the international community.

La première visite du président iranien Ebrahim Raïssi en Arabie saoudite, le 13 novembre, marque une étape importante dans le rapprochement entre les deux pays, dont la médiation a été assurée par la Chine en mars. Ces relations acquièrent rapidement un niveau de solidarité qualitativement nouveau dans le contexte du conflit israélo-palestinien.

D’après des récentes informations, certains groupes du Hezbollah libanais auraient quitté leurs positions en Afrique pour rejoindre les rangs des forces armées syriennes, en raison des tensions croissantes avec Israël.

A spread of the Israel-Gaza conflict into Egypt would be very dangerous, Greece’s Migration Minister Dmitris Kairidis said at an Ankara meeting 16 days into the war, because Egypt “has a very big population”.

On Saturday, 7 October 2023, the Palestinian militant movement Hamas, launched a sudden attack on Israel, which has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 Israelis, with approximately 3,000 people wounded, and the capture of around 240 soldiers and civilians. On the first day of the attack, Israel declared a state of war, called upon reserve forces to prepare for a ground intervention and initiated an extensive campaign of aerial bombardment in the Gaza Strip, resulting in over 10,000 casualties.

The Defense Department currently has four lines of effort in the Middle East, said Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, who briefed the media Monday.
As many as 700,000 Israeli settlers are living illegally in the occupied West Bank as settler violence surges.
Since Israel unleashed its brutal bombing campaign in Gaza on October 7 in the wake of a deadly Hamas attack, settler attacks against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem have more than doubled from an average of three to eight incidents a day, according to the United Nations.

On November 3, 2023, Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech
entitled “Martyrs who died on the way to Jerusalem.” it was Nasrallah’s first public
appearance since the outbreak of Operation Iron Swords. The speech, which raised high
expectations in the Arab world, claimed the war in Gaza was completely Palestinian. He
threatened the United States and Israel and emphasized that “all options are open.

A war monitor said at least 34 Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters were killed in an Islamic State attack in the central desert in one of the deadliest assaults by the group this year.
At least 34 Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters were killed and several others injured in one of the deadliest attacks attributed to the Islamic State in Syria, a war monitor reported on Wednesday.

White House and Pentagon officials have said they will hold Iran accountable for attacks on US bases by Iranian proxies.
US troops in Iraq and Syria came under a spate of new rocket and drone attacks over the weekend, as the Pentagon sent an Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine into the region to join two aircraft carrier strike groups in a bid to deter Iran and its proxies from exploiting Israel’s war in Gaza.