The authors recommend a new U.S. policy toward Gaza. This will not require a fundamental shift in objectives, but it will demand both a major change in the strategies and tools the United States uses to achieve them and greater American engagement. While shifting away from the West Bank-first policy, the United States must avoid a Gaza-only strategy that ignores the peace effort between Israel and the PLO. Such neglect would cement Palestinian division, empower Hamas at the expense of the PA, and scuttle any chance of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in the future
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"December 2018."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-52)
Notes
Based on meetings of a Task Force on the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy toward Gaza, convened by the Center for a New American Security and the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy
Also available in PDF on the Brookings Institution web site
