An Israeli settlement is made up of housing units built for Jewish Israelis on land captured by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war, primarily in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The land is home to Palestinians who seek a future independent state.

Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas.

If Israel lacks the demographic weight to impose its own hegemonic order on the Middle East, it has instead constructed a system to prevent anyone else from doing so.

Implementing such plans extremely risky, may lead to further degradation of the situation in occupied territories, says Foreign Ministry's deputy spokesman - Anadolu Ajansı

HASAN T. ALHASAN is Senior Fellow for Middle East Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. EMILE HOKAYEM is Director of Regional Security and Senior Fellow for Middle East Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani criticized his government's Middle East strategy on Thursday in comments published by the news website Entekhab. "If sympathy for Muslims and the region ends in disaster for the Iranian people,

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