Israeli innovation envoy Fleur Hassan-Nahoum hosts former member of Knesset, party leader and author Einat Wilf to challenge prevailing narratives and outline what genuine Middle East peace would require.
Wilf retraces a decade-long “awakening” from the 1990s peace camp to a data-driven conclusion: Multiple offers for a sovereign Palestinian state (including 2000 and 2008) were rejected, followed by violence, with little internal criticism from Palestinian leadership. She unpacks the ideology that she and Adi Schwartz call “Palestinianism”, a sustained fixation on preventing Jewish sovereignty in any part of the land, and argues that lasting peace depends on defeating this ideology rather than recycling failed diplomatic formulas.
The conversation explains why the land-for-peace hypothes