News on politics, security and defence in the Middle East and North Africa
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By James M. Dorsey Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s warning in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or…
Who are these Houthis? The short answer is: pawns in Iran’s master plan. For 45 years the upholders of Iran’s Islamic Revolution have been intent on consolidating and extending its sphere…
By James M. Dorsey Israel’s assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s chief ceasefire negotiator, was not an isolated incident in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s effort to undermine the talks while insisting…
By James M. Dorsey Five decades ago, Nayef Hawatmeh, an aging left-wing guerrilla leader, created a template for a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian resistance that has lessons for…
By James M. Dorsey The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is about more than Israel’s targeting of the group’s officials whenever and wherever an opportunity arises. Known as a…