Middle Orient

Analysis: By visiting the sensitive holy site and calling for Jewish prayer, the far-right Israeli minister is deliberately provoking an escalation. Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s recent call to change the fragile status quo of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to allow Jewish prayer at the holy site deliberately deepens …

Iran has made no secret of the immense importance it places on the US protests – as a way to export its Islamic Revolution. They have been making it clear that the regime sees the protesters at US campuses as an Iranian fifth column in America to be used in …

Iran has made no secret of the immense importance it places on the US protests – as a way to export its Islamic Revolution. They have been making it clear that the regime sees the protesters at US campuses as an Iranian fifth column in America to be used in …

The United States and foreign mediators seem to be attempting to delay or indefinitely postpone an Iranian and Hezbollah attack targeting Israel by both threatening Iran and presenting a potential ceasefire-hostage agreement as an off-ramp from further regional escalation. Both the United States and Israel have signaled that a strike …

In his jaunts abroad, the 88-year-old leader of the Palestinian Authority reinforced the very message he hoped to undermine—that there are no credible, trustworthy leaders on the Palestinian side. Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority, has clung to power for so long that an entire generation of Palestinians …

Following the sudden death of Iran’s president, Ibrahim Raisi, the reformist politician Masoud Pezeshkian won the snap election to replace the hard-liner, a possible successor to supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Pezeshkian campaigned on a program of change, but not changing the system. He supports negotiating a nuclear deal with the …

This week as well, senior Iranian officials continued to threaten a harsh response to the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. They stressed Iran’s right to attack Israel despite political messages to Tehran to refrain from a direct attack on Israel. At the same time, it seems that the Iranian …

A steady flow of Russian weapons to Tehran could change the balance of power in the region, potentially triggering a response from the United States and Israel. The Middle East is experiencing a level of conflict unseen for decades. The spiral of escalation that began with the terrorist attacks against …

As the Biden administration desperately tries to prevent or limit a missile and drone attack by Iran and its proxies against Israel, it would be wise to remember that the Middle East is already awash in Iranian projectiles. Recently, an Iranian artillery rocket fired by Lebanese Hezbollah killed twelve children …

Extreme right-winger and Israeli Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticized the continuation of negotiations for a prisoner and ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza, saying it would amount to surrendering to a terrorist group. In an interview with Radio 103 FM, Ben-Gvir called for halting the delivery of …