Salam Fayyad on the ‘Day After’ in Gaza

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

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The violence on Oct. 7 and the war in Gaza seem to have derailed any hope for a two-state solution. With tensions in the Middle East continuing to escalate, and a cease-fire agreement proving elusive, what does a path forward for both the Israelis and Palestinians look like? Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad shares his insights with FP Live. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Foreign Affairs: Salam Fayyad: A Plan for Peace in Gaza John Aziz: Violence Has Failed the Palestinians FP Contributors: How Will This War End? How Can the Next One Be Prevented? Stephen M. Walt: The Dangerous Decline in Israeli Strategy Tickets to see FP's Ones and Tooze podcast live at Sixth & I in Washington, DC: https://www.sixthandi.org/event/foreign-policys-ones-and-tooze-podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.5	Last weekend, we saw a real escalation of violence in the Middle East.
0:54.8	The largest and most intense exchange are fired between the Israeli military and the powerful Lebanon base has bullet now threatening to open a second battlefront that's raising serious concerns that the entire
1:00.1	Middle East could spiral into chaos.
1:02.6	In the early hours of Sunday, Israel launched massive strikes against thousands of Hezbollah
1:08.3	rocket launches in southern Lebanon.
1:11.3	Hezbollah responded by firing a barrage of rockets at northern Israel anyway.
1:16.5	And then, just as quickly as things escalated, they de-escalated.
1:22.0	Both sides began claiming victory, a sign that they would lay off.
1:27.3	Now, Iran may yet try to avenge recent
1:30.1	attacks on its proxies, or not, we don't know. But amid the constant back and forth of attack
1:37.7	and counterattack, something deeper is being forgotten. Not only do we not have a ceasefire after the events of October
1:45.8	the 7th, the world also seems further than ever from a broader two-state solution, or indeed
1:52.0	anything that could stop violence from taking root again and again and again. So is there any
1:59.6	path left to Palestinian statehood? Are there any actors left with
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