Middle East

More US Jews urge Israel to ensure ample food deliveries to Gaza

US TA | AP Insight - July 31, 2025.

While continuing to unreservedly support Israel in eliminating the security threat posed by Hamas, major Jewish organizations and leaders in the United States are increasingly...

Spectre of Hamas haunts UN two-state conference

Middle East Ferry Biedermann - July 31, 2025.

The UN conference in New York on the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine at first sight appears to have been oddly timed. Shouldn’t the first priority...

What is the reach of the UN meeting on the two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 28, 2025.

Co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia and boycotted by the US and Israel, UN member states' high-ranking officials will examine the chances of a two-state...

Israel begins a limited pause in fighting in 3 Gaza areas

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 27, 2025.

The Israeli military on Sunday began a limited pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza for 10 hours a day, part of a...

The Europeans threaten Iran with sanctions if it does not accept monitoring of its nuclear program

Middle East TA | AP Insight - July 25, 2025.

For the first time since the US attacks on Iran, high-ranking European and Iranian diplomats have resumed talks on Tehran's nuclear program. With little progress and...

Do Syria’s clashes with the Druze foreshadow confrontation with the Kurds?

Middle East Ferry Biedermann - July 24, 2025.

Syria’s post-Assad future is still uncertain, with a remarkable level of overall stability having been punctured twice now by heinous sectarian violence in which governing...

Russia and Israel are locked in interminable wars of choice

Middle East Shlomo Ben-Ami - July 21, 2025.

Democracies and dictatorships have sharply diverging attitudes toward war. Whereas violent conflict was central to the ideologies that helped perpetuate the totalitarian regimes of the...

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