Middle Orient

The West Bank was tense even before the Hamas-Israel war amid the emergence of armed groups and almost daily Israeli raids in Palestinian cities and towns. As the Hamas-Israel war rages in Gaza, Israel is intensifying raids and arrests in the West Bank in an attempt to prevent an eruption …

Ankara has politely shown the door to Hamas leaders staying in Turkey, according to two sources, as it walks a diplomatic tightrope, careful not to jeopardize its recent thaw with Israel while maintaining support for the Palestinian cause. Turkey has been trying to carefully calibrate its stance in the face …

Moscow may temporarily profit from the West’s focus on the Middle East, but navigating its ties in the region will be tricky. As Hamas launched its blitz attack against Israel on Oct. 7, some observers were quick to suspect the Moscow-Tehran axis at work. Russia, so the argument went, was …

Toute une partie de l’extrême gauche française ne veut pas voir du terrorisme dans les actions du Hamas, mais un groupe armé résistant à une occupation. Les langues se délient. Interrogée par Jean-Jacques Bourdin sur l’antenne de Sud Radio, la députée France Insoumise Danièle Obono a dévoilé le fond de …

As Israel continues to indiscriminately bomb Gaza, Emad Moussa writes that it has always been Israel’s goal to ethnically cleanse the Strip, and reflects on the helplessness and rage of Palestinians in the diaspora. “My home! They destroyed my home, everything I worked for in my life is gone. I …

The US is not just backing Israel in its genocidal attack on Gaza: it is actively participating in it, argues Lamis Andoni. Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood assault didn’t just damage Israel’s status & reputation regionally – but also those of the US. The Al-Aqsa Flood operation has turned all US calculations …

Hamas, or the Islamic Resistance Movement, is a Palestinian Islamist military and sociopolitical movement that grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni religious and political organization founded in Egypt in 1928 that has branches throughout the world.10 Hamas emerged in Gaza in the late 1980s, and established itself as …

Jordan’s King Abdullah this weekend denounced what he termed global silence about Israel’s attacks on Gaza, which have killed thousands of people in the enclave, and left over a million people homeless. Speaking at a hastily convened meeting dubbed the Cairo Peace Summit, King Abdullah said: “The message the Arab …

Lebanon, which is teetering on the edge of economic and political collapse, risks becoming entangled in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas. Hezbollah has been gearing up for the possibility of joining the fight ever since Hamas’ surprise assault on Oct. 7, 2023, killed nearly 1,400 people, leading to …

« Destruction du Hamas », « réoccupation militaire », « ruines », « massacres et expulsions de civils »… Dans l’affrontement actuel entre l’armée israélienne et le Hamas, les qualificatifs ne manquent pas pour décrire les avenirs possibles de la bande de Gaza. Au-delà des objectifs militaires à court terme, …