Brief Published (Dubai time, UTC+4) · event date: 2026-09-26
Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow in the Middle East and North Africa programme at Chatham House, believes that continuing military operations, incursions, and settlement expansion cannot constitute a sustainable political objective for Israel.
According to him, the end of the Netanyahu era could offer an opportunity to rethink relations between Israeli and Palestinian societies, which are currently marked by the absence of a clear diplomatic path.
Mekelberg warns of the risk of a perpetual conflict if the war continues without a political prospect for resolution.
