What are the disadvantages of the hybrid approach?
This document analyzes strategies available to Israel vis-à-vis the Palestinians: negotiations, off-the-table strategies or a hybrid of the two. Negotiations and off-the-table strategies may be mutually exclusive or complementary. Their advantages and disadvantages have to be taken into account when designing the structure of the political process with the Palestinians. An Israeli-Palestinian partnership to a political process that is based on negotiations can emerge when requirements regarding the quality of the political process and the maturity of the partners are met.As long as these requirements are not met, the reasons for and chances of unilateral steps increase.