Israel’s new plan is to ‘shrink,’ not solve, the Palestinian conflict. Here’s what that looks like

Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu The new Israeli government that toppled long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this summer is full of contradictions. There’s pro-peace leftists, pro-settlement right-wingers, pragmatic centrists and even for the first time an Arab Islamist party, all sitting together in one governing coalition. On the most divisive issue — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — there is almost no consensus, which is just how Micah Goodman likes it. Many have taken to calling him the court docket thinker of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, an ultra-nationalist former settlement chief, who has publicly embraced Goodman’s paradigm of “shrinking the…