The Middle East is no longer a top US priority
by Neville Teller Where the US goes, much of the Western world follows – willingly or reluctantly, depending on circumstances. From the first days of his presidency Joe Biden started…
Palestinians challenge the PA
by Neville Teller In the small hours of June 24, 2021 fourteen Palestinian Authority (PA) security officers burst into a house in Hebron, made for a room where 42-year-old Nizar…
“Enemies and Allies” – Joel C Rosenberg’s new book
Reviewed by Neville Teller Joel C Rosenberg has many faces. He is best known, perhaps, as the author of a series of best-selling political thrillers, most of them set in…
The Taliban victory – its impact on Israel
by Neville Teller Israel was not directly involved in the events surrounding the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and it would be reasonable to assume that the main effect on Israel…
IS(K) – the Taliban’s worst enemy
by Neville Teller The Taliban has just won a 20-year war against America and its allies and sent them packing. The triumph is so complete that the US no longer…
Qatar: A force to be reckoned with
by Neville Teller The tiny state of Qatar has spent most of the past thirty years fighting for a prominent position on the world stage. It has won through. Qatar’s…
Iraq in turmoil
Iraq’s next parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 10, 2021. The Iraqi people will vote into office the 328 members of the Council of Representatives who, in turn, will elect…
Lebanon remains in Hezbollah’s clutches
Lebanon has been without a government since the massive explosion of August 4, 2020 blew Port Beirut apart and, with it, Lebanon’s administrative machine. In the aftermath of the blast…
Iran’s water crisis threatens the regime
Despite more than forty years of living under a rigid and repressive theocratic regime, Iranians are not people to take government failure or flagrant abuse of power lying down. Time…
Turkey and Israel – are they to be friends?
Diplomats the world over blinked in disbelief on Tuesday, July 13 when the news broke that the previous evening Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had phoned Israel’s newly elected…