New Frontiers

Did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s drive to reform Israel’s judiciary—which sparked intense, broad based opposition from Israeli society and sharply curtailed institutional checks on executive power—play a role in the timing of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel? Could the internal conflict between Israelis who support and oppose Netanyahu’s reform agenda pose an even greater threat to Israel than the external conflict between it and external adversaries? How has the war between Israel and Hamas affected Israeli and Palestinian societies? And what are the prospects for humanitarian relief in Gaza, Palestinian self-governance, and a durable peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? In this episode of New Frontiers, political geographer Tamar Mayer explores these and other topics with host, Mark Williams.

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Produced and edited by Margaret DeFoor and Mark Williams, director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. Intro by Charlotte Tate, associate director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs. Editing also by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs intern, Mehr Sohal.

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