How did a fight over pending evictions of Palestinian residents from an East Jerusalem neighborhood spiral into fighting between the Israeli military and Hamas over Gaza?

Israeli, Palestinian, Arab state, and American policymakers must consider a new approach that breaks the untenable cycle of military escalations and uneasy ceasefires. Several proposals addressing urgent questions about security, humanitarian issues, and a political horizon based on the two-state solution are contained in a comprehensive report from the Brookings Institution and the Center for a New American Security. The study is the product of six months of discussions, in which Israel Policy Forum leadership and other experts participated as part of the Task Force On the Future of U.S. Policy Toward Gaza, led by Brookings and CNAS.