Middle Orient

Iran and other members of its “axis of resistance” differ in their political circumstances and strategic calculations, complicating Tehran’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. Iran sees the “axis of resistance” as a tool to achieve gains from the Mideast crisis while avoiding direct conflict with the United States. Lebanese Hezbollah …

The Israel-Hamas war presents Jordan’s leadership with more risks to stability than virtually any other Arab government. Jordan’s population is majority Palestinian, many of whom resent King Abdullah’s close alignment with the United States, which has refused to back a ceasefire in Gaza. The government is trying to reflect popular …

On October 8, 2023, a day after Israel’s Operation Iron Swords against Hamas in the Gaza Strip began, Hezbollah opened another front against Israel from Lebanon. The Palestinian terrorist organizations in Lebanon and pro-Iranian militias operating from the Syrian-Israeli border also participate in the fighting.

For decades, the struggle for national liberation in Palestine was rightly understood to be part and parcel of a global struggle for liberation, mainly in the Global South. And since national liberation movements were, per definition, the struggle for indigenous people to assert their collective rights for freedom, equality and …

“It should never have happened,” an elderly Holocaust survivor of a Nazi death camp told the New York Times. He was referring to the colossal failure on October 7th, of Israel’s touted high-tech military and intelligence operations that opened the door to Hamas’ attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians. In …

Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian met in Beirut on Thursday for talks on the latest regional developments. The top Iranian diplomat and the Hezbollah chief exchanged views on regional issues, with a particular focus on Palestine and Lebanon, …

After Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on October 7 this year and after Israel’s fierce counterattack in the Gaza Strip, where the number of dead Palestinians far exceeded the number of dead Jews in the Hamas attack, anti-Semitism throughout the world experienced a drastic rise. The old evil is back …

Analysis: The unwavering US and Western support for Israel’s devastating war on Gaza is doing long-term damage to the legitimacy of the ‘rules-based order’. The world has been glued to news about Israel-Palestine since 7 October. The killing by Israel of over 13,000 Palestinians, including 5,500 children, in Gaza and …

Since 7 October & Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, pro-Israel media pundits & commentators have increasingly adopted the tactic of forcing condemnations of Hamas to avoid providing any context that identifies Israel’s crimes, explains Timo Al-Farooq. Since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza following Hamas’ 7 October operation, ‘whataboutism’ in …

On 21 November, the US, Qatar, and Egypt achieved the first major diplomatic breakthrough of the 2023 Gaza war. They brokered an agreement which will secure the release of 50 Israeli hostages and 150 Palestinian prisoners and facilitate a four-day truce between Israel and Hamas. The agreement also allowed hundreds …