The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies<p>On August 30, 1993, the Israeli government headed by Yitzhak Rabin held an important meeting that ended with agreeing to sign the Oslo Accords. The guest of the episode, Professor Antoine Shalhat, reviews the minutes of this session, which was crucial for the Israelis and which preceded the signing of the Oslo Accords in the courtyards of the White House two weeks later.</p>
Many provisions of the coalition agreements of Netanyahu's right-wing religious-settler government focus on the creeping de facto and legal annexation of the West Bank. In this episode, lawyer Sawsan Zahr, who previously served as deputy director of the Adalah Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, provides an extensive analysis of the policies guiding the work of the Israeli government. She discusses how these policies will impact the future of the West Bank, the viability of the two-state solution, and Israel's international standing, especially in light of the growing international human rights discourse accusing Israel of establishing a system of "exclusive Jewish supremacy" between the river and the sea.
On June 21, 2023, the Israeli police violently suppressed protests by the people of the occupied Syrian Golan against the project to build air turbines on their land. In this episode, Wael Tarabay, a Syrian artist and activist from the occupied Golan Heights, discusses the lands of the Golan people. He critically addresses their tense relationship with the State of Israel and the complex relations with the Druze community in the Palestinian Galilee.
A few weeks after Netanyahu's sixth government took office in Israel, massive demonstrations erupted against the right-wing judicial reform plan. The protest movement began to expand in the last week of March 2023, bringing nearly all facets of life to a standstill. It is evident from the general scene in Israel that the judicial reform plan aims to extend the settler, religious, and populist influence of the new right to other sectors within the deep state. This move is perceived as a profound and existential threat to Israel's democracy by many protesters. In this episode of Madar podcasts, Dr. Hassan Jabarin, director of the Legal Center for the Arab Minority Rights in Israel – Adalah, a lecturer at law schools, and a specialist in constitutional law, provides an in-depth analysis of the situation inside Israel. He explains who the opposing camps are, the real motives of the protesters, and the broader implications of the judicial reform plan.
This is the third episode in the "New Right" series in Israel. In this episode, Dr. Honaida Ghanim focuses on two milestones in the rise of the New Right: the Oslo Accords (1993) and the Gaza Withdrawal Plan (2005). Dr. Honaida then explains the tools, channels, and organizations that the New Right uses to extend its overall hegemony over Israeli society, analyzing how these efforts shape political and social dynamics in Israel.
This episode focuses on the structural changes that Netanyahu's sixth government seeks to introduce in the relationship between the legislative branch (the Knesset) and the judiciary (the Israeli Supreme Court), aiming to expand the powers of politicians and reduce the normative oversight role of the judiciary. Dr. Amtanes Shehadeh, former Knesset member and director of the policy unit at Mada al-Carmel Center, analyzes the consequences of the right-wing, religious, settler, and extremist Israeli government's assault on the judicial system. He explores how these changes aim to extend the government's hegemony over key state institutions and how this might impact the future of the occupation of the territories occupied in 1967.
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