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why did the ceasefire negotiations collapse – and can they be revived?

  • Written by Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken looked exhausted at his media conference in Israel this week as he tried to remain optimistic about prospects for a truce in the Gaza war.

Despite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comprehensively rejecting Hamas’s ceasefire counter-proposal, Blinken said it “creates space for an agreement to...

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