Israelis, Palestinians must 'reboot relations': Absence of diplomatic route means 'perpetual war'

Home Middle East To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 11:26 Issued on: 26/09/2026 - 09:50 Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Yossi Mekelberg, Senior Consulting Fellow of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House. Can Israel continue to define its future primarily through security and territorial control? Mekelberg challenges the notion that military operations, incursions and settlement expansion can constitute a sustainable political objective. He identifies a potential transition beyond the Netanyahu era as an opportunity to reconsider the relationship between Israeli and Palestinian societies. His central argument is that the continuation of war without a political endgame risks a state of perpetual conflict. Keywords for this article