The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb – Part 2
Part 1 looked at the region as a whole as well as Hamas’ standing in Gaza eight months into the war. Today’s Part 2...
US President Biden plays high-risk poker with Israel’s Netanyahu
US President Joe Biden doesn’t fit the mould of a high-risk gambler. Yet, gambling is the crux of his velvet glove dealings with Israel....
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb -Part 1
The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb.
The region’s most apparent powder keg – the risk of a regional conflagration between Israel and...
What Jews, Palestinian Israelis, and Turkish Kurds have in common
Diaspora Jews, Palestinian Israelis, and Turkish Kurds have more in common than meets the eye.
The similarities in how the three minority communities define themselves...
Netanyahu and ultraconservatives jeopardise Israeli security
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has fractured a long-standing pillar of Israeli foreign policy that dictated it always needed to ensure the backing of the...
Netanyahu borrows time by rejecting Gaza ceasefire
This week’s Gazan short-lived celebration of a ceasefire that was not to be, highlights what is at stake in the seven-month-old war and Israel’s...
The politics of ‘From the River to the Sea’
Newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin was furious. The blood drained from his face as he stood up to signal an end to...
Netanyahu is blinded and cornered by the gathering of increasingly dark clouds
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other leading Israeli figures appear blinded and progressively cornered by the gathering of increasingly dark clouds.
The clouds, including...
Israel puts Gaza ceasefire ball in Hamas’ court
Israel’s latest Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange proposal puts the ball in Hamas’ court.
The proposal, drafted in recent days by Israeli negotiators and Egyptian...
Rafah: Make or break for Netanyahu?
An Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gazan enclave of Rafah is a question of when, not if.
Not because Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is...