A casualty of war
Israeli footballer Sagiv Yehezkel was deported from Turkey this week after being detained by police and fired by Super Lig club Antalyaspor for expressing...
Escalating Red Sea tensions and citizen boycotts trap US in Catch-22
Increasingly, the United States is caught in a Catch-22 with tension mounting in the Red Sea, Israel maintaining unabated its assault on the Gaza...
Israeli shift in military tactics threatens to be a double-edged sword
US pressure on Israel to switch gears and focus on targetted precision strikes and killings, rather than indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip, potentially...
The Gaza war is set to spill onto the streets of Western cities
The question is not if but when Gaza-related violence will spill onto the streets of European and American cities.
This week’s killing in Beirut of...
History repeats itself with the assassination of a Hamas official
History repeats itself.
Palestinian airplane hijackings and attacks on Israeli civilians in Israel as well as on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad pockmarked the 1970s...
Gaza war calls Middle East de-escalation into question
The jury is out on the degree to which the Gaza war threatens pre-war efforts by Middle Eastern states to freeze their differences and...
Netanyahu appears increasingly caught between a rock and a hard place
Controversy over the release of Palestinian tax receipts tests the United States’ ability to pressure Israel and suggests that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s ultra-religious,...
Israel and Hamas grapple with Egyptian Gaza roadmap
A Palestinian source said Mr. Al-Nakhalah was discussing an end to the Gaza war that would involve an exchange of prisoners, the withdrawal of...
Israel Hamas prisoner talks are mired by politics
One would think that heart wrenching images streaming out of the Gaza Strip suggest that Israel has Hamas over a barrel in stalled efforts...
Catching flack: Qatar’s Gaza mediation is a balancing act
A high-flyer at the center of efforts to negotiate temporary pauses and Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swaps, Qatar is catching flack for its relationship with Hamas...