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What is the reaction of the leading countries in the region to the Hamas terrorist action? Who supports whom? Has the Arab-Israeli peace process that was previously launched in the region completely broken in two? How has the improving relationship between Israel and the Arab states pushed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into the background? How has the peace process facilitated the cooperation of Israeli technology and Arab oil capital? What could be the future of the Abraham Accords between Israel and individual Arab states? Did the terrorist action thwart the Middle East peace process? Is there a common denominator among Arab countries regarding the future of the region? Which countries are members of the Arab League? Is there such a thing as a unified Arab nation? Are Arab countries nation-states? How artificial are the state borders that still exist today, which were determined by the former colonial powers in the 1916 Sykes-Picot Anglo-French Agreement? How artificial are these states, and how devoid of cultural precedents are they? What is the role of tribes (Iraq, Libya) or extended families (Qatar, Saudi Arabia) in the leadership of a country? How did artificially drawn borders divide existing tribes? How did the Arabs living in Palestine become Palestinians? What is the role of the wars with Israel in this? Does the Palestinian state exist in international law? How far back in history do we have to go to understand Palestine and the history of Israel? Where should we look for the origins of the modern Jewish state? When did the concept of the Jewish nation emerge? Are there Jewish Arabs? Why did the two-state model fail to materialize? Where could the Palestinian state be established? What was the Abdullah Plan developed in 2002 after the wars? What has happened since 2005, when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip? How do the positions of Israel and the UN differ regarding the status of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? What solutions have been proposed so far to resolve the status of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank? Can relations between Israel and other Arab countries be settled without resolving the Palestinian issue? Who can give the Palestinians more living space? Why do Egypt and Jordan not want to allow the Palestinian Arabs living in the neighboring area into their territory? What will happen to the people living in the Gaza Strip? How do the demographic trends of Israel and the Palestinian-inhabited areas differ? How many more Arabs live in the area than Jews? How many Arab parties are running in the Knesset elections? What is the citizenship and legal status of the people living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and can they ever be voters in Israeli domestic politics? If not, what is their legal status? If they are given the right to vote, will the Jewish state remain? Is there a chance for a negotiated agreement if Israeli domestic politics brings continuous changes of government, and on the Palestinian side the battle between Fatah and Hamas is taking place? Zsolt Rostoványi, university professor, Middle East expert, rector emeritus of Corvinus University, in the program of Inforádió Aréna on 17.10.2023. Subscribe to InfoRádió's YouTube channel and be informed first-hand about the latest uploads! Follow us on the internet: http://infostart.hu/ Follow us on Facebook: / infor%c3%a1di%c3%b3-118703541479581 Inforádió. Hungary's news radio. The news radio.