Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs | Robert Freedman | Activity https://bcfausa.org/members/rofreedman/activity/ Activity feed for Robert Freedman. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:41:07 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2f52f2a01cd41c3f928bbef8b3c31f9e Robert Freedman replied to the topic MiddleEastDiscussion in the forum Members https://bcfausa.org/forums/topic/middleeastdiscussion/#post-19851 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:53:16 -0500 Thanks for your queries. The situation is still fluid. The Palestinians are discussing unity (again), a Gantz-led Israeli government will crack down on the settlers (he is already trying to do this from within the War Cabinet, and the Gulf States that don’t like Hamas (Saudi Arabia and the UAE) should be willing to help if a Palestinian state is o…Read more

]]> 1a1e524d646ed560e6cbb325e7a42954 Robert Freedman replied to the topic Middle East Discussion in the forum Middle East Discussion https://bcfausa.org/forums/topic/1/#post-19847 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:20:22 -0500 Thanks for your queries. The situation is still fluid. The Palestinians are discussing unity (again), a Gantz-led Israeli government will crack down on the settlers (he is already trying to do this from within the War Cabinet, and the Gulf States that don’t like Hamas (Saudi Arabia and the UAE) should be willing to help if a Palestinian state is o…Read more

]]> 24c47cd710fb752f5baecf5ee9cbca2e Robert Freedman replied to the topic Middle East Discussion in the forum Middle East Discussion https://bcfausa.org/forums/topic/1/#post-18566 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 21:44:58 -0500 The shock of the October 7th attack on Israel has galvanized both the right and left in Israel to concentrate on eliminating Hamas. The post war arrangement is secondary to this goal. In any case, we will have to wait until it is clear that Hamas has been militarily defeated before the Israelis, with or without Netanyahu as their Prime Minister,…Read more

]]> c9caa322f60d5174e2aefc2f08547c84 Robert Freedman replied to the topic Middle East Discussion in the forum Middle East Discussion https://bcfausa.org/forums/topic/1/#post-18565 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 21:43:53 -0500 Two things are needed to move to a two state solution.

First, Hamas must be militarily defeated so it can no longer be an actor in the peace process. Up until now Hamas succeeded in sabotaging the OSLO Two agreement in 1996 by launching a series of terrorist attacks on Israel that undermined then Prime Minister Peres and led to his loss in the…Read more

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