{"id":381301,"date":"2018-10-17T02:59:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-50-year-time-bomb-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2018-10-17T02:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T01:59:41","slug":"israels-50-year-time-bomb-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/israels-50-year-time-bomb-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel\u2019s 50-Year Time Bomb \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: OldNewspaperTypes;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In the quest to change Israel\u2019s very nature, the Netanyahu government is pushing Palestinians to the edge \u2013 with the support of the Trump White House, says Dan Steinbock.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>By Dan Steinbock<br \/><\/b><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Special to Consortium News<\/i><b> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SteinbockDan_face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SteinbockDan_face-130x130.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28810\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-28810\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/SteinbockDan_face-130x130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"82\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The Trump White House and the Netanyahu government are fostering an extraordinary time bomb between Israel and Palestine in the name of \u201cpeace and progress,\u201d warned a\u00a0recent report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">The report unsurprisingly said that \u201cdeepening rifts between key stakeholders and surging violence in Gaza further imperil prospects for peace.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While economic and strategic polarization is steadily deepening between the two sides, the \u201cpeace initiatives\u201d of the Trump White House are undermining half a century of American diplomacy and pushing the region closer to an abyss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the past, the Netanyahu government has vehemently opposed all parallels with South African apartheid. Unfortunately, new data suggests that under apartheid South African blacks had more to hope for than Palestinians today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Unsettling Parallels<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Between 1994 and 2017, Israeli GDP per capita, adjusted to purchasing power parity, increased by 150 percent; in the West Bank and Gaza, the comparable figure was 160 percent. Yet, the Palestinian starting-point is so low that progress in living standards is largely fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30681\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fig-a-GDP-per-capita.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fig-a-GDP-per-capita.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-30681\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"305\"  \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-30681\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fig-a-GDP-per-capita.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"305\"  \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Figure a: GDP per Capita PP: Israel Vs West Bank and Gaza (1994-2017)<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">(<span style=\"color: #000000;\">World Bank).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 1994 \u2013 amid the peace talks in Oslo \u2013 Palestinian living standards were only 6.4 percent ($1,526) of the Israeli level ($23,693) (<b>Figure a<\/b>). At the time, the hope was that peace would bring increasing stability, which would foster prosperity and rapid catch-up growth \u2013 until the radical-right assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin triggered still another cycle of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Last year, Palestinian living standards were about 7.3 percent ($2,494) of the Israeli level ($34,135). After more than two decades of new wars and friction, terrorism and restrictions, the catch-up has amounted to less than a percentage point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let\u2019s set aside political debates about the causes and only focus on economic facts; i.e., changes in&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2018\/10\/16\/israels-50-year-time-bomb\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quest to change Israel\u2019s very nature, the Netanyahu government is pushing Palestinians to the edge \u2013 with the support of the Trump White House, says Dan Steinbock. By Dan SteinbockSpecial to Consortium News The Trump White House and the Netanyahu government are fostering an extraordinary time bomb between Israel and Palestine in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}