Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Middle East.
In the spring semester of 1969, my ninth-grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Schwartz, tasked me with leading the āArabā side of a…
As reports say that some within the U.S. government believe that they are facing āstrategic defeatā in the war on Iran, new…
The words ‘killed’, ‘injured’, ‘maimed’, and the like often lose a great part of their meaning when they are repeated so relentlessly.…
The plight of Palestine has been the emotional heartbeat of the Arab imagination for decades. From Casablanca to Baghdad, millions have chanted…
Palestinians in the West Bank are at their weakest point in history, and today theyāre staring down Israelās accelerating campaign to ethnically…
A widening war After nearly three weeks of resumed warfare, it is safe to say not only that the cease-fire is over…
The Israeli embassy in Canberra had warned about it, and, with rattling confidence, thought it appropriate to remind the Australian Labor Party…
Zionism has a chequered history: the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, wars without end, apartheid, land theft and now, genocide. Less well known…
Nearly 10 months into a āceasefireā in theĀ GazaĀ Strip, as Israel on TuesdayĀ killedĀ at least one Palestinian man with an airstrike on the Nuseirat…
On 22 July, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed what WashingtonĀ calls a āpeaceful nuclear cooperation agreement.ā The agreement has been presented…
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