By James M. Dorsey Israel’s rapidly deteriorating relations with Russia contain a message for other Middle Eastern powers: attempting to remain on the sidelines of the conflict in Ukraine risks…
By James M. Dorsey Middle Eastern states see their ability narrow to walk a fine line in the Ukraine conflict. Israel is a case in point as tensions with Iran…
By James M. Dorsey A straightforward message emerged from this week’s meeting in the Negev desert of the foreign ministers of four Arab countries, Israel and the United States: Israel…
by Neville Teller On October 20, under the dramatic headline “Scoop”, on-line news provider Axios posted an exclusive story – details of a conversation held on September 27 between US…
Back in December 2020 the Jerusalem Post reported that “some of Israel’s highest echelons” expected normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia to have occurred by the end of 2021. As…
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…
UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco continued support for Palestinians while pursuing normalisation with Israel, Normalisation ‒ The New Norm in the Middle East
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Normalisation with Israel and France is in the air as Turkey Talks with Forked Tongue to mend relations with regional and international actors.
On 11 January 2021, the ministers of foreign affairs of Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan, met in Cairo to discuss means to continue the Middle East Peace Process in order…