Jockeying for position in post-war Gaza
By James M. Dorsey Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and onetime Palestinian foreign minister Nasser Al-Kidwa have put forward a proposal designed to keep a two-state solution to the…
US anti-settler sanctions barely scratch the surface
By James M. Dorsey This week’s US sanctioning of an Israeli-government-backed vigilante settler group constitutes a weak shot across Israel’s bow as the United States and Europe mull also sanctioning…
ICC is advised: Reject arrest warrant request
It was on May 20, 2024 that Karim Khan KC, a British jurist and chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), applied to the court to issue international arrest…
Binyamin Netanyahu is as much an ideologue as he is an opportunist
By James M. Dorsey A recent evolution in critics’ thinking about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s drivers suggests that he is motivated as much by ultra-nationalist ideology as by political…
Escalating Middle East tensions raise multiple questions
By James M. Dorsey Sunday’s escalation of hostilities along the Israeli-Lebanese border raises more questions than it provides answers. Israeli said it launched airstrikes against 40 targets in southern Lebanon…
Multiple time bombs likely to threaten a Gaza ceasefire from day one
By James M. Dorsey Gaza’s desperately needed but increasingly elusive ceasefire, if achieved, is likely to be fragile, threatened by multiple ticking time bombs that could explode at any given…
US mulls confronting Netanyahu if Gaza ceasefire talks falter
By James M. Dorsey US, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators appear optimistic after two days of Gaza ceasefire talks. Even so, US officials are considering confronting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu publicly…
Mohammed Dahlan, Gaza’s leader-in-waiting?
As an eventual ceasefire deal in Gaza draws closer, the media speculate whether Mohammed Dahlan’s moment is about to arrive. Will Dahlan soon find himself…
Ultra-nationalists provoke as Netanyahu’s ceasefire tightrope wobbles
By James M. Dorsey When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif with up to 3,000 of his singing, dancing, and praying ultra-nationalist…
Gaza school attack spotlights pitfalls of Israeli strategy
By James M. Dorsey If Israel’s high-casualty strike against a Gazan school proves anything, it’s Albert Eistein’s definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and…