How COVID - And Israel’s Trump-Brokered Lovefest with Arab States - Are Affecting Palestinians

Host Allison Kaplan Sommer is joined by Amira Hass and Dahlia Scheindlin to talk about the Trump-brokered normalization agreement between Israel and Morocco, the spread of COVID-19 in the West Bank and Gaza, and the latest bombshell in Israeli politics.We ask: How do the Palestinians - and their leaders - feel about Israel’s ongoing series of agreements with Morocco and other Arab states? Has the coronavirus improved or worsened the Israeli military’s treatment of Palestinians?We talk about whether the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu’s new challenge on the political right is removing the Palestinian issue from Israeli political discourse completely. Also discussed: whether the Palestinian Authority will ever hold elections, and if the incoming Biden administration can even contemplate engaging with Israeli-Palestinian peace with both sides in political disarray. Recommended related reading: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-morocco-normalize-relations-trump-western-sahara-king-mohammed-vi-1.9363779  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-if-freed-palestinian-teen-at-risk-for-covid-19-will-be-detained-without-trial-1.9353555  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-can-t-count-on-the-gulf-peace-deals-for-political-salvation-1.9159484  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-palestinian-authority-set-to-receive-four-million-doses-of-russian-covid-19-vaccine-1.9367648    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.