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Middle East Institute · 2017-03-03
The Middle East Institute in Washington hosted a panel on the succession question and the future of Palestinian politics, at a time when President Trump’s backpedalling on the US commitment to a two-state solution had spotlighted a looming leadership crisis and President Mahmoud Abbas, then 81, had no designated successor. Omar Shaban, founder of PalThink for Strategic Studies, spoke alongside Gabriel Mitchell of the Mitvim Institute, Yousef Munayyer of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Sarah Yerkes of Brookings, in a discussion moderated by the BBC’s Barbara Plett Usher. The panel asked how likely a new leadership was to emerge, how the diaspora could have a voice, and how the next generation should approach settlement expansion, Fatah–Hamas reconciliation, economic troubles and international engagement.
The Middle East Institute in Washington hosted a panel on the succession question and the future of Palestinian politics, at a time when President Trump’s backpedalling on the US commitment to a two-state solution had spotlighted a looming leadership crisis and President Mahmoud Abbas, then 81, had…