A deal has been reached between Fatah and Hamas to create a Palestinian unity government that will serve for one year, until elections are held. The truth is a Palestinian government that represents all Palestinians, and with security and governance capacity in both the West Bank and Gaza, is vital to any future peace agreement.<\/p>\n
What we know for sure:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Efforts to pressure Hamas through boycotts and blockade have failed. They have neither ousted Hamas from power nor forced it to accept international pressure . Instead, these policies contributed to creating a miserable humanitarian situation that has sparked harsh criticism of Israel throughout the world. What we need to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 The international community needs to demand that Hamas end\/prevent rocket and mortar attacks on Israel. Get the peace process back on track. In the absence of a credible effort to reach a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – one that takes into account the situation in Gaza – extremists will inevitably gain popular support.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A deal has been reached between Fatah and Hamas to create a Palestinian unity government that will serve for one year, until elections are held. The truth is a Palestinian government that represents all Palestinians, and with security and governance capacity in both the West Bank and Gaza, is vital to any future peace agreement…. Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16576,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16574\/revisions\/16576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacenow.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 The current status quo (since the 2008 Gaza War) is not sustainable. Renewed rocket attacks from Gaza threaten to escalate into broader conflict. Gilad Shalit remains a prisoner. Military force alone cannot “solve” the problem of Gaza.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Israel has to end the siege on Gaza, while leaving reasonable Israeli measures to block the import of weapons in to the area.<\/p>\n