Prospects for the Arab-Israeli conflict to end-2021
Thursday, June 17, 2021
Subject
Prospects for the Arab-Israeli conflict to end-2021.
Significance
Israel's ten-day conflict with Hamas in Gaza in May brought the Palestinian issue back onto the regional political agenda, after a lengthy period in which it had been relegated to the background. The new US administration was forced to engage seriously with a crisis that had been low down on its list of priorities, while in the Arab world, Egypt seized an opportunity to reclaim its former status as a key regional power.