Middle Orient

Washington now sees Hamas the same way as Isis and could offer help killing senior leaders The US will support Israeli plans for targeted assassinations of senior Hamas officials, a former CIA analyst specialising in the Middle East has told i. Israel has a long record of using assassinations against …

Current and former U.S. officials say decades of Iranian arms, funding and training made the worst terrorist attack on Israel in decades possible. American officials are investigating whether some of the Hamas militants who carried out the unprecedented attack on Israel received advanced training from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, …

The U.S. shootdown of a Turkish armed drone in northeastern Syria demonstrates the potential for unintended conflict when so many actors are operating militarily in one space. Türkiye and the United States continue to differ on the prominent role that Kurds play in the U.S.-led effort to suppress Islamic State …

Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared Israel to be “at war” following a complex and multi-pronged cross-border attack by Hamas into southern Israel on October 7. The sophistication of the attack caught Israeli leaders by surprise and will lead to a reevaluation in terms of the threat to regional security, …

Contrary to popular belief, Hamas is not just flip-flop hijackers with rusty Kalashnikovs and suicide bombers wrapped in cheap explosives. Hamas has been busy for many years with its scientific program, which included developing weapons of mass destruction and electronic intelligence. Iran is actively helping the program, but Gaza already …

Le site Al-Mayadeen a rapporté le 12 octobre courant que les Américains ont demandé à Israël de se concentrer sur Gaza et de leur laisser le soin de s’occuper du Hezbollah libanais. C’est ce que le commentateur des affaires militaires, Alon Ben David, aurait déclaré sur une chaîne de télévision …

A l’extrême gauche, certains renvoient dos à dos le Hamas et Israël. L’analyse nationale et internationale des évènements en Israël de Gabriel Robin. Samedi 7 octobre au matin, presque cinquante ans jour pour jour après le déclenchement de la Guerre du Kippour de 1973, Israël a connu son 11 septembre. …

They [the Israelis] ignored one of the advice of the Florentine clerk that “Don’t wound a deadly enemy and let him live to recover. Either turn him into a friend or kill him!” Israeli leaders tried to apply to Hamas the strategy they had used against hostile Arab neighbors since …

The US and Israel continue to base their policies on the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is willing to coexist with the Jewish state. “We made [the Israelis] think Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [there] and had abandoned …

The countries of the European Union are divided over whether to continue aid to Gaza. However, the question of whether it is possible to help the civilian population without strengthening Hamas is not part of the current debate. Most international aid to Gaza is channeled through UNRWA, a UN agency …