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Israeli soccer club’s anti-racism echoes Israel’s political divide
Storied and crowned soccer club Beitar
Jerusalem was for decades a pillar of the Israeli right-wing and an
often-extreme symbol of Israel’s lurch towards the right...
Top Criminal Court to conduct official probe into alleged war crimes in Palestine
Following a “thorough, independent and objective
assessment”, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced
on Friday that she plans to open a formal investigation...
U.S. Foreign Policy Threats to Israel’s National Security: Strategic Imperatives for Jerusalem
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."-W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
Though U.S. President Donald Trump describes himself as pro-Israel, any seriously analytic assessment of...
UN: Israeli settlements remain ‘flagrant violation’ of international law
Regardless of any national policy declarations, Israeli settlement
activities are “a flagrant violation under international law”, the UN Special
Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process...
Decisive international action needed to end Israeli occupation
The international community has a responsibility and legal obligation to
compel Israel to end its 52 year-long “occu-annexation” of Palestinian
territory and remove barriers preventing Palestinian...
The Game-changing Fallibility of BMD Systems: Lessons from the Middle East and South Asia
As the
Middle East’s major powers recalculate their defence and foreign policies
following last month’s missile strikes on Saudi oilfields, there have emerged
some telling lessons with...
The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil wells
In the
early morning of Saturday, September 14 last, at 3.31 and 3.42 a.m., the Yemeni
Houthi Shiite rebels supported by the Iranian "Revolutionary Guards"
- the...
Playing politics: Trump and Netanyahu risk sparking nuclear arms race
Afghan president Ashraf Ghani may not be the only one to have welcomed US President
Donald J. Trump’s cancellation of peace talks with the Taliban....
Jerusalem Format: Searching for a Solution to the Crisis in the Middle East
On July 20, Jerusalem hosted a summit meeting for the national security
advisers of Israel, the US, and Russia that was unusual both in terms...
Syria and Lebanon: Energy Challenges and Chances Remain High
Syria's energy landscape is slowly taking
form after eight years into the conflict. Despite the fact that the Islamic
State (IS) terrorist organization has lost control...