Category: Israel-Palestine

Palestinian Salafist groups march at a protest in Gaza denouncing the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Gaza and the long tail of terror

The war in Gaza will – sooner or later – inspire other Islamist terrorist groups, just as previous conflicts did...

Suzanne RaineJanuary 3, 2024

The Exodus in 1947 after a British takeover.

Stopping the Exodus: an impossible task

The voyage in 1947 of the Exodus, a ship chartered by a Zionist militia, piled pressure on the British government to relax the limits it had imposed on Jewish immigration to Palest..

James BarrNovember 21, 2023

Jewish settlers protest at Tapuach, a major junction in the northern West Bank, 30 April 2013.

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The Messianic roots of the modern settler movement

Sometimes the Israeli government and the settlers’ aims are in conflict and sometimes they intersect. Today they are as closely intertwined as they have ever been...

Michael GoldfarbNovember 10, 2023

A US Navy sailor stands by a machine gun aboard the USS Paul Hamilton in the Strait of Hormuz, 19 May 2023.

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‘We are in the most sustained period of high crisis since 1962’ — in conversation with Philip Zelikow

EI’s Angus Reilly talks to Philip Zelikow about the crisis in the Middle East, the dangers of escalation, and the urgent need for the United States to move to a pre-war position. ..

Angus ReillyOctober 25, 2023

An Iranian man holds a Palestinian flag at an anti-Israel protest.

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Iranians know who their enemy is, and it’s not Israel

Despite the regimes attempt to whip up the Iranian people’s support for the Palestinians and hostility to Israel, they remain largely unmoved...

Ali AnsariOctober 19, 2023

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Israel’s Fauda fallacy

TV series like Fauda have become constitutive of Israel's power – or, in this case, the illusion of it...

Pauline BlistèneOctober 18, 2023

Palestinian students hold pictures of Tayyip Erdogan during his trip to the Gaza Strip, 13 September 2011.

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Can Erdogan keep up his Middle East balancing act?

Under President Erdogan, Turkey is walking a fine line between strong domestic support for the plight of the Palestinians and ambitions to serve as a mediator between the warring p..

Hannah Lucinda SmithOctober 17, 2023

A funeral for one of the victims of the 1929 Hebron Massacre.

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Hamas’ genocidal massacre on October 7 has deep historical roots

The 1929 Hebron massacre perpetrated by followers of Haj Amin Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, demonstrates the deep roots of Islamist ideology...

Charlie LadermanOctober 16, 2023

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Gaza’s troubles began long ago

Extreme violence has always been a feature of Gaza’s history going back to the siege of the city by Alexander the Great...

James BarrOctober 16, 2023

A US Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter aircraft flies over the USS Gerald R. Ford.

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America cannot ignore the Middle East

Despite calls to refocus American grand strategy towards Europe and Asia, events in Israel show that the United States cannot abandon its commitments in the Middle East...

Aaron MacLeanOctober 13, 2023