Netanyahu’s Shape-shifting ‘Endgame’ – It Is No Ploy, but a Reversion to Earlier Zionist Strategy

The blurring of established and demarcated space has gradually permeated from the military into the Israeli political sphere, Alastair Crooke writes.

The late Ariel Sharon, a long-time Israeli military and political leader, once confided to his close friend Uri Dan that, “the Arabs had never genuinely accepted the presence of Israel … and so, a two-state solution was not possible – nor even desirable”.

In the minds of these two – as well as for most Israelis today – is the ‘Gordian Knot’ that si...