• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

FRIEDRICH EBERT STIFTUNG

ISRAEL OFFICE
  • Home
  • FES Israel
    • Israel Office Staff
  • Vision and Mission
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Previous Events
  • Publications
    • Israel Debates
  • Press Review
    • Schlaglicht Israel
  • Contact
    • Deutsch
    • עברית
    • عربيه

Netanyahu’s Construction Freeze for Jewish Settlements in the West Bank

Israel Debates is released as online publication of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Israel. Each edition presents opinions of two authors who express controversial views about major events of Israeli interior or foreign politics. The present publication of Israel Debates presents the Israeli domestic discussion on the construction freeze for the Jewish settlements in the West Bank.

Dr. Reuven Pedatzur, lecturer at the Netanya Academic College, is critical of the Netanyahu government’s construction-halt decision. He sees the decision merely as Netanyahu’s tactical maneuver, to satisfy and silence the US government, and not a real step towards progress in negotiations with the Palestinians.

Prof. Efraim Inbar of the Bar-Ilan University views this step by the Netanyahu government in a positive light. He sees this as an unprecedented decision reflecting the Netanyahu government’s desire to improve relations with the United States, as well as to show clearly its reasonable and flexible policy towards the Palestinians, so that Netanyahu cannot be accused of missing the opportunity for a peace treaty.

December 2009.

⇒Download the Publication of Israel Debates No.2: “Netanyahu’s Construction Freeze for Jewish Settlements in the West Bank”

Category: Israel Debates

Related products

  • Is Israel’s democracy in danger? The controversial proposed legislation of the ruling right-wing coalition

  • How the direct Peace Talks between Netanyahu and Abbas that began in September 2010 came to a quick End

  • Following the war between Israel and Hamas: New political horizons for the peace process?

  • The Proclamation of a Palestinian State: Threat or Opportunity for Israel?

Back to Publications List

Events Calendar

Today
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
1
2
3
4

OUR MAIN FIELDS OF ACTIVITIES:

Social Justice

Labor Relations

Shared Society

Gender Justice

Peace and Security Dialogue

Israeli-German/European Relations

SEARCH FOR OUR PUBLICATIONS

The Vision of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung is to promote:

- a free society, based on the values of solidarity, which offers all its citizens the same opportunities to participate on political, economic, social and cultural levels, regardless of their origin, sex or religion

- a lively and strong democracy; sustainable economic growth with decent work for all

- a welfare state that provides more education and improved healthcare, but at the same time combats poverty and provides protection against the challenges that life throws at citizens

- a country that is responsible for peace and social progress in Europe and in the world.

  • OUR PARTNERS
  • INTERNSHIP
  • FES WORK IN THE REGION
  • FES WORLDWIDE
  • IPS JOURNAL
  • IMPRINT
  • PRIVACY POLICY

 

 

Search

Follow Us on FacebookFollow Us on YouTube
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Copyright © 2023 Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung