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There are few political tricks more effective than wrapping the interests of a state in the sanctity of God. Saudi Arabia now says that its air...
When news broke, in 2023, that Libya’s first female foreign minister, Najla Al-Mangoush, had secretly met her Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen, in...
On the afternoon of 17th September 1948, a three-car convoy wound its way through the tense, war-torn streets of Jerusalem. Inside one of the...
This time, Europe seems serious about holding Israel accountable – or at least that is what 11 European countries, together with Canada, want us to...
For nearly three years, Palestinians in Gaza have been taught, brutally, that almost everything necessary for ordinary human life can be destroyed or...
Small and middle powers rarely choose their geography. They only choose what to do with it. Pakistan sits at the seam of South Asia, the Gulf, and...
State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has become one of Türkiye’s largest foreign investors and a core pillar of the...
Sometimes an entire political order confesses itself in a single telephone call. Saudi Arabia, custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, self-appointed...
The age of the unqualified politician is not a rhetorical flourish; it is a reality that becomes painfully visible every time a press conference turns...
Jewish hatred is real and must be condemned without qualification. But it cannot be fought by propagating hatred against the followers of another...
Military damage can be measured quickly. Strategic success depends on whether force changes Tehran’s political calculations rather than reinforcing...
Praising the bare minimum in terms of statements in support of Palestine has long been treated like a diplomatic breakthrough. BRICS’s New Delhi...
Recent reporting says yes — at least on the intelligence front. Diplomatic sources cited separately by Israel Hayom, Walla, and The Jerusalem Post...
For decades, the European Union has said that its relationship with Israel is built not only on trade, science and security cooperation, but also on...
Whatever awaits him this coming November, few politicians could claim to have the endurance, bloody mindedness and sense of granite staying power than...
Brazil is experiencing one of its most polarised electoral battles, as the race intensifies between President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his...
Half a billion Arabs inhabit a region drowning in weapons. There are millions of men under arms, fleets of American and European combat aircraft,...
In Gaza, keeping a medical device running can depend on access to engine oil. A Reuters report published on 10 September 2026 describes shortages of...
The age-old debate between faith and atheism emerged alongside the very first stirrings of human consciousness. It is a centuries-long conflict that...
Israel can still win the war in Gaza. It cannot win the argument that follows it. That is the gap accountability advocates keep pointing to, and it is...
The nuclear confrontation with Iran is again moving in two opposite directions. On 9 September, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of...
Is Israel really moving towards military self-reliance – or is the US-Israel “special relationship” being transformed into something even more...
Israeli companies are increasingly operating in Indonesia. They are using Indonesian locations, Indonesian creative talent and Indonesian commercial...
Oil markets are behaving as if the region’s supply problems will soon resolve themselves. That confidence is becoming increasingly difficult to...
For decades, Eastern Mediterranean security debates centered on who bought what—fighter jets, missile batteries, submarines. The transaction was the...
For decades, Israel’s energy security was defined by scarcity. Lacking substantial domestic fossil-fuel production, it depended heavily on imported...
Few events have altered the geopolitical trajectory of the Middle East as profoundly as 11 September 2001. The attacks on New York and Washington did...
The international community has rightly become more alert to the threat posed by hostile states beyond their own borders. Putin’s war machine...
A year ago this week, a 400-page legal petition arrived on the desks of the UK Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Defence Secretary and the...
International responses to Israel’s policies in the occupied West Bank, notably regarding redrawing the ethnic composition of the territory, have...
The two-state paradigm is already obsolete. Therefore, when the Board of Peace’s High Representative Nickolay Mladenov gives yet another reason why...
There was a time when Pakistan could still distinguish an alliance from an employment contract. In April 2015, Saudi Arabia wanted Pakistani aircraft,...
“The decline of a great power does not begin when it loses its weapons. It begins when its weapons can no longer deliver the political outcomes they...
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) wants to invest in a large dam in Indonesia. The dam, called Bulango Ulu, sits in Bone Bolango, in Gorontalo province,...
The Trump administration has begun preparing a US strategy for the period following the end of the war with Iran, intended to guide its Middle East...
Imagine this scene: “One young woman, fearing she would not survive, stepped out of the crowd and handed her infant to one of the female doctors.”...
The US government continues to double down, even as its stubbornness costs it dearly—not only in material terms, but also in geopolitical influence....
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the most enduring legacy of 9/11 may not be the destruction of the World Trade Center or even the wars...
While following Channel 4’s coverage of Tel Aviv’s decision to close the British Consulate in Jerusalem, I was struck by a comment from the...
The United Kingdom’s decision to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank was not a routine legal measure, nor a narrow...
During Israel’s genocide in Gaza, people around the world understood that diplomacy was not truly averse to the erasure of Palestinians. When Israel...
The late Dr. Israel Shahak once related that during WWII when a collaborator at the Warsaw ghetto was eliminated, the jubilant inmates (himself...
Lebanon’s electricity crisis is usually attributed to fuel shortages, financial collapse and institutional failure. All three explanations are...
A proposal to sell the Suez Canal, in north-eastern Egypt, has sparked widespread concern among Egyptians, who are already deeply suspicious of the...
After a summer in which the dreams of dozens of the best and the brightest young people in Palestine seemed to be shattered by the Irish authorities,...
On a summer day in 1749, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was walking through the streets of Paris when he stumbled upon a question posted by the Academy of...
A few days ago, a very interesting article appeared in the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post. It was written by AJ Jaff, whose profile describes...
Cyprus presents one of the Eastern Mediterranean’s most striking energy contradictions. It possesses commercially promising offshore gas fields, yet...
When Iran launched salvoes of drones and missiles at American bases, the message was clear. Strikes hit facilities in Kuwait, Jordan, and the United...
Let’s be done with the pretence of decency and soggy references to just resolution in the face of extreme circumstances. Be done with the...
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