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Successive Palestinian-Israeli negotiations have always failed to reach a breakthrough because of one issue. Sure, borders and settlements and economic relations are important but the differences between both sides on those issues were not insurmountable. Refugees and the right of the return for Palestinians are perhaps the most difficult nuts …
Read More »Palestinians Disappointed by International Community’s Stance on Escalation with Israel
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz: “Israel is not preparing for a cease-fire. … Only when we achieve complete quiet can we talk about calm” [Gaza City] Since Monday night, the situation has been boiling over in Gaza as Palestinian movements in Gaza respond to what they call the “violent Israeli …
Read More »Hamas threatens to strike Tel Aviv after top Islamic Jihad commander killed
Hamas rocket barrages on southern Israel continued Sunday with almost 300 projectiles launched at Israel since Saturday. The IDF and Hamas continued to trade blows with each other over the Shavuot holiday, with large areas of Israel’s South under rocket attack and the Israel Air Force bombing numerous Islamist targets …
Read More »Israel-Gaza Conflict Rages on With Little Known on Cease-Fire Progress
Both Israel and Hamas insist that they will continue their cross-border fire Heavy Israeli airstrikes continued over Gaza on Saturday and Sunday afternoon causing heavy loss of human life and material damage, while Hamas unleashed hundreds of rockets deep into Israel for a seventh day sending Israelis running for shelters. …
Read More »Rockets hit Ashdod, Beersheba as barrages from Gaza continue
Hamas rocket barrages on southern Israel continued Sunday with almost 300 projectiles launched at Israel since Saturday. Barrages of rockets continued to pound Israel on Monday, striking across southern Israel and scoring a direct hit on a home in Ashdod, injuring several people.
Read More »The Middle East Beginning to Adjust to Realities of Likely U.S.-Iran Deal
A flurry of diplomacy is laying the groundwork for a U.S.-Iran agreement on a mutual return to the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear deal. The core of the regional discussions focuses on rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Iraqi leaders are seeking to assume the …
Read More »How the Abraham Accords Precipitated New Israeli-Palestinian Violence
The Trump administration’s signature foreign policy achievement was supposed to unify the Middle East behind a common goal of peace. Some say they paved the way for violence instead. When President Donald Trump sought to tout the benefits of new agreements that normalized Arab countries’ relationships with Israel, the first …
Read More »Jerusalem on Edge as Clashes Continue and Situation Escalates Sharply
Fighting between Israelis and Palestinians continued to escalate, with Hamas militants firing rockets into Israel, and the Israelis launching airstrikes in Gaza. Protests have grown over the pending expulsion of Palestinian families by Israeli settlers from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem. The political situation is fraught, with the …
Read More »Israeli Barbarism in Gaza
Dr. Akram Kewidar, an assistant professor at the Israa University, Gaza, has sent me videos of the Zionist carnage occurring in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli bombs are reducing entire residential buildings to dust and rubble; bodies lie mangled in pulverized cars; corpses are strewn on the streets like the remains …
Read More »Aggressive Policies Of Netanyahu Have Proved to be Very Costly and Destructive
Leaders in whose hands great trust is placed by their people must have an equally great sense of responsibility of not misusing this trust and of using their position and accompanying power very carefully. Israel is obviously a very important country which has elected Benjamin Netanyahu five times to the …
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