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On Tuesday, Israel held its fourth round of national elections in the past two years, in what’s largely seen in a referendum on the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, and currently under indictment and awaiting trial on a series of corruption charges. PITA: You’re listening to The Current, part of the Brookings Podcast Network. Thanks to audio producers Gaston Reboredo and David Greenburg, Chris McKenna, Fred Dews, Marie Wilken, and Camilo Ramirez for their support. Listen to Brookings podcasts here, on Apple or on Google podcasts, send email feedback to and follow us at Twitter.
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She previously served as an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Syracuse University. Cooper is a political theorist and senior lecturer in the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University. Read about and watch Part 1 of this series here. Would a commitment to a specific solution outlast intentions to reduce the conflict, or would attempts to shrink the conflict create the circumstances necessary for a more visionary and imaginative solution? In any case, which path forward might garner the most immediate political support?
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These speakers examined whether a commitment to a specific ideological solution was necessary to begin working towards peace, or if it would be better to simply work towards shrinking the conflict and changing the lived conditions of people on the ground. Scholars Julie Cooper, Micah Goodman, Hussein Ibish, and Areej Sabbagh-Khoury discussed in candid terms what next steps should be taken to address the current conflict.
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This dialogue is meant to reimagine what is possible in the current state of impasse in Israel-Palestine and to have the discourse of ideas settle as a newfound hope for a political path forward. The aim of this series is to bring together leading scholars, thinkers, and policy-makers-each with different affiliations and visions for the future-to put forward contemporary resolutions against an otherwise stagnate Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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On December 5th, 2021, the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy, in partnership with the USC Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life and the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, hosted part two of its multi-part series “Deadlock in Israel-Palestine: How to Imagine a Better Future?”