On 18 March 2025 a cross-party group of UK parliamentarians published the results of a deeply researched investigation into Hamas’s terror attack on Israel on 7…

By James M. Dorsey Betar, the far-right youth movement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, is happy to help US President Donald J. Trump curtail pro-Palestinian speech and…

Yemen is at the epicenter of national and international interests at odds with each other and battling for supremacy.  At the heart of the turmoil is Iran, financing and weaponizing the…

By James M. Dorsey This week’s Gazan anti-Hamas protests demanding an end to the war could prove to be a double-edged sword. There is no doubt that Gazans want to…

By James M. Dorsey Hamas has Israel where it wants it. The group’s insistence that ending the war be part of any ceasefire deal and refusal to disarm strengthens its…

By James M. Dorsey US President Donald J. Trump had a stinging message for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu when he heaped praise on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week…

On April 2, prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Qatar as “a complex country”.  The epithet seems a trifle inadequate.  Qatar is close to mirroring  Winston Churchill’s famous description of Russia –  “a riddle wrapped…

By James M. Dorsey As he embarked on a Middle East tour, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto this week offered to accept an estimated 1,000 wounded Gazan Palestinians and “traumatised, orphaned…

By James M. Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s multi-pronged strategy to crush the Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation by destroying Hamas is doomed to failure with or without the…

By James M. Dorsey This week, US President Donald J. Trump put Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on a pedal stool for the second time since he returned to the…