المركز الفلسطيني للدراسات الإسرائيلية
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to release the Israelis detained by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu indicated that he would use the corpses of five martyrs of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, which Israel detains, as a pressure card.
According a report by Alex Fishman, military analyst of Yedioth Ahronoth, high level Israeli political and security circles have expressed concern at the increasingly strong alliance between Russia, Iran and Turkey, particularly in light of the Russian position which supports the presence of Iranian forces in Syria.
A new report of the Macro Center for Political Economics shows that the Israeli government spending on settlements and settlers in all aspects of life is more than double their percentage of the total population of Israel. This is particularly the case in government-sponsored settlement construction. While settlers comprised 4.5% of the total Israeli population, settlement construction accounted for 10.2% of the total government construction. This percentage does not include settlers in settlement quarters in occupied Jerusalem.
Published by the Israel Democracy Institute, a research paper on the relations between the Arabs and Jews presents a set of findings and conclusions, most notably:
The “status of Arabs in Israel” is one of the most controversial issues between segments of the “Jewish national majority”. It is clear that the “camp which casts doubt on, or is even hostile to, the idea of equal inclusion of the Arabs in Israel is clearly the largest compared to that which is willing to abandon its preferential status in favour of integrating the Arab public into the state and society affairs on an equal footing. In most cases, the latter camp does not waive the definition of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people”!
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The Repercussions of the War against Gaza on Israel's Relations with Russia and Turkey: Will There Be Fundamental Changes?
On the collapse of the concept of "moving away from America and the West and replacing them with new friends": "Netanyahu was looking for comfortable political partners, even at the cost of harming Israel's national security."
Israeli Affairs (Issue no. 91)
