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It also examines demographic trends involving, in detail, key military aspects of recent fighting and internal friction between different Israeli and Palestinian factions as a source of conflict. In doing so, it links the events on the conflict timeline with the broader impact of decades of tension and conflict on each population and the very different current levels of Israeli and Palestinian economic development and human rights.

The analysis shows that Israel has reacted by placing much more emphasis on security measures and the use of force than on the peace process and by improving the living conditions and economic security of the Palestinians. He has emphasized the creation of a "Jewish state" over a peace agreement, and has encouraged the expansion of settlements in the West Bank area, Jewish areas in Jerusalem, and the use of "facts on the ground" as a substitute for peace. .

 The latest round of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians has been a tragic reminder of how deep the gap remains between each side in finding a path to some stable form of peace. The Burke Chair has expanded its original analysis of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a study of the history and recent events leading up to the fighting in an electronic book, which includes a political and military chronology of the fighting by day, titled Israel and Palestinians: From Two-State Solution to Five Failed "States". A copy is attached to this email, and the analysis is available on the CSIS website for download at https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/210517_Cordesman_Solution_States.pdf?EygUQsgAeqLPBwndELv86_TkdppbwndELu86 .

It is much deeper than the original version and attempts to take an in-depth look at the political, military, civil, economic, and religious forces that divided Israel and every major aspect of the Palestinian movement. Its structure and content are summarized in the table of contents shown below.

The analysis does not attempt to blame any of the different sides and factions involved, and focuses on the reality that many modern conflicts involve asymmetric fighting between modern states and non-state actors that rely on the use of civilian populations to provide the equivalent of human shields. .

It examines the extent to which Israel uses its military power and its power as a state to control its different Palestinian populations, as well as the different threats it faces in the West Bank and Gaza, along with the human and economic consequences, depending largely on reports from the Department of State of the US, the World Bank and neutral research centers when possible.

However, the Palestinians have been divided and done similarly little to move towards a settlement and stable peace. The Intifadas, minor forms of violence and the division of the Palestinian movement into an increasingly weak Palestinian Authority "government" in the West Bank, a Hamas "government", as well as a major military build-up in Gaza, have coincided with the cause of the collapse for any prospect of a real two-state solution, including Israel's treatment of Gaza, the progressive annexations and facts on the ground, and the changes to make Israel a Jewish state.

The end result is a situation where there are now at least three equivalents of "failed states" that divide the two sides in a practical sense, and to some extent five. Each represents a separate center of divisions and tensions between Israel and the Palestinians, and within each side. Each is a center of actions and tensions that may well block any lasting functional agreement between Israeli Jews and Palestinians indefinitely in the future.

The first "state" is Israel, and her inability to give the Palestinians the equity and aid that could bring stability and compromise in some equivalent to a two-state solution. Israeli politics has shifted from an effective democracy to something that is beginning to approach “chaos-cracy,” increasingly focused on opportunistic annexation, security forces, and the use of force over the peace process.