News on politics, security and defence in the Middle East and North Africa
By James M Dorsey When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu first cultivated Evangelical and far-right support for Israel, he didn’t worry about their theologically rooted associations with anti-Semitism and/or willingness to…
Will the Gaza ceasefire deal survive its first phase? That was the unanswerable question hanging over the formal end of phase one on March 2 and the scheduled start of…
By James M. Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s effort to reshape the Middle East aligns neatly with US President Donald J. Trump’s notion of big power geopolitics. In 2023,…
By James M. Dorsey US President Donald J. Trump may be a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Mr. Trump’s dealings this…
By James M. Dorsey There is logic to Donald J. Trump’s madness. Irrespective of the merits of the US president’s ethics, policies, and style, Mr. Trump’s grenade-throwing shock-and-awe approach has…
By James M. Dorsey Russia is not the only country laughing all the way to the bank after US President Donald J. Trump’s war of words with his visiting Ukrainian…
By James M. Dorsey Israelis and Palestinians jockey for position and attempt to move the goalposts as the fragile Gaza ceasefire teeters on the edge of collapse. Any number of…
By James M. Dorsey Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reduced his security toolkit to overwhelming military force and landgrabs. Following on the heels of Israel’s devastation of Gaza, weakening of…
By James M. Dorsey Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is about scoring political points, if need be, at the expense of the lives of Hamas-held Israeli hostages and innocent Palestinians.…
By James M. Dorsey US President Donald J. Trump’s shock-and-awe Gaza therapy appears to be working. Infuriated by Mr. Trump’s assertion that the United States will take ownership of the…