Yale Zussman's Latest Recommendations

Here are a few items to keep you busy; the theme is looking to the future:

Does Israel have a strategy for Gaza?
Yossi Kuperwasser
Aug 19, 2018
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/does-israel-have-a-strategy-on-gaza/

Reviews Israel's goals and methods for attaining them. There is a strategy for the short- to medium-term only.
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Abbas's Responsibility for Gaza Crisis

by Bassam Tawil
August 21, 2018
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12898/gaza-crisis-mahmoud-abbas

Tawil attributes Abbas's current strategy to concerns that Trump's "peace plan" will envision separating Gaza from the PA territories. It is my sense that this separation has always been the key to finding a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, so if that is part of the so-far unseen Trump plan, he is on the right track.
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THE PA AT THE END OF ABBAS’S REIGN
BY LIOR AKERMAN
Jerusalem Post
AUGUST 30, 2018
https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-PA-at-the-end-of-Abbass-reign-566204

Identifies the candidates for successor and what each might mean for the future.
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The Last Days of Syria and the Non-Interventionist Catastrophe

Noah Rothman
Sep. 7, 2018
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/foreign-policy/middle-east/syria/syria-non-interventionist-catastrophe/

Recaps the errors that brought us to the current situation, then surveys where we might be headed: Not pretty.

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Let me take this opportunity to wish my Jewish readers a Shanah Tovah.

--Yale