Erwin van Veen. All rights reserved.Last Sunday’s summit in Paris threw a welcome light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has faded into the background of the carnage in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Yet, the politically inconvenient truth is that the peace process as traditionally conceived – between the Israeli and Palestinian authorities, supported by US-mediation – has been dead for the past two decades.
This is largely because the Israeli government has had little true need for peace for most of the time.[i] It has generally operated from a position of strength - hegemonic today - that it leverages to its fullest extent.
