Filed with Sources, Books & Media (MOC) · Related: 60.1 Israel-Palestine · Key Arguments (MOC)
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Not sure that he can’t do no right
- Prime Minister during Abraham Accords
- First opening to Arab worlds since Egypt and 1990s
- Idea that getting peace is outside in, not inside out
- Get peace with other countries first and P. will realize that the train is leaving the station
- That even if you get P. peace that you’ll get stability in the middle east is proposterous
- Syria: 15-20m displaced
- Ability to protect Israel from Iran attack and bring multi-national together
- Security establishment wants to deflect from the responsibility they bear
- Longest serving Prime Minister
- Major Ideas/Insights
- P. wont make peace until they have no choice
- Israel can make peace with other Arab nations
- Arab world will not want to normalize relations if Israel looked weak
- Israel needs to look strong
- From 2000 on
- Regional economic superpower
- Global tech superpower
- Military and intelligence juggernaut
- From 2000 on
- They’ll want to piggyback on being against Islamist and threat of Iran (Gulf countries)
- Saudi 2030 goals
- Doesn’t believe he can achieve those goals without Israel
- Saudi 2030 goals
- Saudi wants this deal MORE now after Hamas attack
- Israel needs to look strong
- Hamas and Iran wanted to stop Saudi/Israel deal
- Thinks the P. want ONE state
- 70-80% support Hamas
- P. Authority still not condemned what Hamas did on Oct 7th
- Indoctrinates P. to kill Israelis
- P. culture to co-exist is non-existent
- Khaled Mashal, the leader of the Hamas movement and one of its senior figures, says. He says: “We will be forced to temporarily agree to a two-state solution in order to prepare for a bigger war. We will not agree to any concessions. We demand a state whose borders stretch from the head of the mountain in the north to Eilat in the south.”
- Hamas wants a caliphate, not a two state solution
- Israelis have demonstrated that if peace is on the table, they’ll take it