At the same time, the Israeli body politic has shifted to the right and the current coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is the most extreme right-wing government in the history of Israel with ministers who are wedded to the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Territories (OpT) and annexationist policies. [...] Netanyahu’s policy of prioritizing the Iranian threat to Israel and the region and actively working against United States policy on the nuclear issue and the JCPOA initiated in the Obama Administration has also fallen short. [...] The security and stability of the Middle East region as well as the efforts of certain countries to modernize their societies and economies is at stake in the absence of a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [...] The point here is to provide a vision that the parties could adhere to and would provide some hope for realizing the end of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict with future implications for the unfinished business of peace on the Lebanese and Syrian fronts. [...] Among the precedents in the history of Arab-Israeli negotiations that can be built on include: UN Security Council Resolutions 242 & 338 and the principle of land for peace; the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty; the Madrid Peace conference which for the first time brought Israel and all its Arab neighbors to the negotiating table in face to face negotiations within a supporting multilateral context;.
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