Eight decades after Israel's founding, the leaders most likely to succeed Benjamin Netanyahu have made clear they will not alter the course that has left five million Palestinians stateless and Israel increasingly isolated on the world stage. Gadi Eisenkot and Naftali Bennett, representing the Israeli opposition, have each rejected Palestinian statehood in unambiguous terms — not as a tactical concession but as a settled conviction. Their position arrives at a moment when 157 nations recognize Palestine, American public sympathy has shifted toward Palestinians for the first time in a generatio
Netanyahu's Opposition Offers No Break From Hardline Palestinian Policy
Ongoing occupation of 5 million stateless Palestinians for nearly 60 years; Gaza war casualties and displacement; systematic denial of rights to 2 million Palestinian citizens within Israel.