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Middle East Institute · 2022
In September 2022, weeks after the August fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the Middle East Institute convened a panel on Israel’s widening crackdown in the West Bank and its humanitarian and political implications, moderated by Khaled Elgindy, with Suheir Freitekh, Brian Katulis, Sandra Rasheed and Omar Shaban. The panelists agreed that the future lies with a youth “sick and tired of living with the status quo” and that Palestinian elections are the necessary first step. Shaban argued that “Israel did not succeed to fragment the Palestinian people,” but that in the latest escalation it “succeeded to separate Islamic Jihad and Hamas.”
In September 2022, weeks after the August fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, the Middle East Institute convened a panel on Israel’s widening crackdown in the West Bank and its humanitarian and political implications, moderated by Khaled Elgindy, with Suheir Freitekh, Bri…