Israeli negotiators, including Tzipi Livni, proposed “swapping” some of Israel’s Arab villages into a Palestinian state.


Gregg Carlstrom is an online journalist with Al Jazeera English, based in Doha. He has covered stories in countries around the region, including Egypt... , Bahrain, Iraq, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli negotiators, including Tzipi Livni, proposed “swapping” some of Israel’s Arab villages into a Palestinian state.

Legislation deeming Israel ‘the national state of the Jewish people’ has enraged the country’s Palestinian minority.
!['Only the Jewish people have national rights,' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014112412542033734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Jerusalem’s most disenfranchised residents are being targeted in a ‘draconian’ crackdown, rights groups say.
![East Jerusalem has been convulsed by months of unrest [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014111694553161734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Violence worsens after Israeli troops fatally shoot Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank.
![The army says it will send two more battalions to the West Bank, as police have deployed heavily inside Israel [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014111114830311580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
One thousand extra police officers have been sent to the city, and dozens of Palestinians have been arrested.
![Unrest has spread across much of East Jerusalem over the past several months [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/201411265558349734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Complicated mechanisms could risk prolonging the Gaza reconstruction efforts, critics argue.
![There is widespread concern that, after three devastating wars any effort to rebuild Gaza will eventually be lost in a renewed military offensive.[EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014101971341507734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
An influx of ideological settlers into East Jerusalem threatens to put an end to the two state solution.
![Residents of East Jerusalem have fought almost nightly with Israeli security forces [AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014101383443614734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Israeli PM appears eager to strengthen regional ties, while postponing discussions on Palestinian statehood.
!['Something is changing in the Middle East,' according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/201410575452814734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Beneath the hostile rhetoric, Israel, PA and Hamas are quietly working to keep the status quo.
![The one subject Abbas discussed at length at his UN speech was the construction of Gaza [Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014916235337446734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Despite Israeli PM’s rhetoric at UN this week, experts say ISIL fighters are not a formidable threat to the country.
![ISIL was a focal point in Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Barack Obama this week [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20141012353112734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)