I n the last months, the situation in the West-Bank has been critical, with numerous Palestinians being expelled from their houses (Sliwan, Sheikh Jarrah) and Israel’s restrictions on the access to the Jerusalem Mosque…
T he European Union has often played a primary role in founding the modern Middle East[1] and, over time, it has emphasized the growing importance of this region in tackling international issues such as…
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A ssessing what constitutes right-wing policies and what constitutes left-wing policies can often be confusing. What looks right-wing in one country may not…
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T here is a complex web of vested interests and moral battles surrounding the notorious Gaza conflict. The deaths of Palestinians being used as ‘human shields’ have been used as a…
T hat the sequence of events that unfolded on the Gaza border last Friday was entirely predictable, and that the reaction to those events was even more so, does not make the aftermath any…
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E arly February I took part in a parliamentary mission to Israel. Not even a week later, Israel and Iran clashed for the first time at the Syrian border, which we…
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[dropcap size=small]A fter the U.S officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that Trump’s decision made a “historic day”. It might be indeed a…
[dropcap size=small]T he Middle East is burning. In Syria, half a million people have been murdered in the bloodiest civil war of the century; in Egypt, constant terror attacks are the new normal; in…
D onald Trump is preparing executive orders that would dramatically reduce US funding of the United Nations, as well as other international organizations that do not meet certain criteria. The upcoming order would dramatically…