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In this issue of Palestine-Israel Journal (PIJ), Looking Back, Thinking Ahead, we are marking our 25th anniversary. It is true that we are now 28 years old, since we started in 1994, but due to the Covid-19 and all related restrictions and financial difficulties we are late, but late is better than never.
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Israeli and Palestinian Youth Face the Future While Israeli and Palestinian veterans were able to lay the foundation for mutual recognition between the State of Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1993 Oslo Accords, they haven't been able to complete the job by ending the occupation and achieving peace based upon mutual recognition between two states: While Palestinians are looking forward to the prospect of their first elections since 2005-06, they are mainly concerned with ending the division between Fateh and Hamas, restoring the legitimacy of their national institutions, arranging their internal affairs by electing a new leadership and adopting a comprehensive national plan to lead their struggle for freedom and independence against Israeli maneuvers to liquidate the Palestinian cause and undermine any possibility of establishing a Palestinian state. [...]many young Israelis, suffering from the Likud government's mismanaged and biased policies in response to COVID-19, took the lead in the mass "Balfour protests" against corruption, calling on "Bibi" Netanyahu to "Go!" Still, very few of them expressed concern about the occupation or the Palestinians' human rights and appear to have accepted the de facto situation in the OPT and to have lost interest in changing it towards resolving the conflict.
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Because of the global importance of the subject, we were careful to include a wide spectrum of contributions from the region and abroad. The answers to these questions can be found in the numerous articles in this issue and in the roundtable discussion that was held with the participation of local and international experts, which is an integral part of the issue. Since March 2020 and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, all countries throughout the world made the fight against it a top priority. Relentless efforts by the Trump administration to normalize relations between Israel and the Gulf states were meant to undermine the Arab Peace Initiative (API), which is based on the principle that //Israel were to withdraw from the OPT and allow the creation of an independent state of Palestine on the June 4, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, all the Arab League member states would recognize and normalize relations with Israel.
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An obituary for Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat is presented. Saeb was a strong supporter of the Palestine-Israel Journal and saw importance in what we are doing to advance peace, promote dialogue, and keep issues related to the negotiations on the table.