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Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch is a professor of political studies and Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University and an expert on the Arab world at The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

Instability might have its virtues; the more unstable the situation, the more palatable a federation between Jordan and the Palestinian Authority will become.
Diplomats who serve in Tehran frequently claim that Israel and the Palestinians are marginal to Iranian concerns. They are correct about the Iranian public and wrong about the leadership.
The real test of Hamas’s “March of Return” campaign in Gaza lies in its ability to mobilize mass violence in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Bethlehem, Hebron and other parts of the West Bank. So far, most of the Arab inhabitants of those areas are content to watch the events on their screens rather than take to the streets.
The night of January 17, 2018, we were witness to another reminder of the success of the hard-hitting strategy adopted by the IDF towards the Arabs in the West Bank – and the failure of containment in Gaza.