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Sep 19, 2026, 1:26 AM

When Religious Narratives Make Peace More Difficult

Why do negotiations between Israel, the United States, Iran, and their allies so often struggle to produce lasting results? The usual explanations refer to strategic interests. However, they are not enough to explain why some compromises appear unacceptable to...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

Mustapha Ezzarghani

Sep 17, 2026, 11:31 PM

King Mohammed VI, Moroccan Jewry, and the Road to September 16

In the preamble of the constitution Morocco adopted in 2011, one sentence carries more weight than most diplomatic accords. The kingdom's unity, it declares, is forged by the convergence of its Arab, Islamic, Amazigh and Saharan components and enriched...

Sep 17, 2026, 4:35 AM

Beyond normalization: Morocco and Israel institutionalize a strategic bargain

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, US Ambassador to Morocco Richard Duke Buchan III, and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita meet to discuss the upgrade of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel on September 16, 2026. (Photo credit: Israeli Foreign Ministry)

The move from liaison offices to embassies is less a diplomatic revolution than the delayed completion of the 2020 compact – and the clearest evidence yet that the relationship has survived its hardest political test. Morocco and Israel’s decision to...

Sep 16, 2026, 10:19 PM

After Six Years of the Abraham Accords, Two Paths for the Middle East

On January 9th, 2026, I boarded a direct flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai. It still felt remarkable. I did not think, growing up, that such a flight would exist in my lifetime — and six years ago, it...

Yaakov Chaliotis

Sep 16, 2026, 3:06 PM

Three Thousand Missiles Later: Why the Abraham Accords Didn’t Break

When the Abraham Accords were signed six years ago today, the objection from sceptics was not that they were undesirable but that they were untested. Normalisation between Israel and three Arab states, brokered in a period of relative calm,...

Freddie Russell

Sep 15, 2026, 6:27 PM

Bahrain is due more credit for the Abraham Accords

Bahrain deserves far greater credit for the Abraham Accords. Not only for signing the agreement on the lawn of the White House six years ago this week, but for what it has done since, and for the deeper history...

Sarel Rosenblatt

Sep 14, 2026, 6:38 PM

Between Dubai and Jerusalem: The Role of Religion

Of all the landmarks in Dubai, the most surprising is tucked away inside the Crossroads of Civilizations Museum. It houses the Arab world’s first Holocaust exhibition—a modest yet dense gallery filled with original historical artifacts. The quality of the...

Sep 9, 2026, 10:54 PM

A New Year, But With a Different Type of Admiration

I just finished a week in Israel with the most inspiring group from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, as part of my work as the Director of Educational Programs at Sharaka. We bring delegations of arabs and muslims from across the...

Mansoor H. Laghari

Sep 8, 2026, 8:52 AM

Israel is losing information war, Badly.

Israel Is Winning Battles and Losing the Information War A friend of Israel should be willing to say what Israel’s enemies already understand: military superiority is not enough if you surrender the battlefield of perception. By Mansoor Hussain Laghari I write this...

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