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James M. Dorsey

Mar 16, 2025, 3:34 PM

Netanyahu gambles on Trump

At first glance, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu could not have a better friend in the White House. In his first two months in office, President Donald J. Trump authorized US$11 billion in arms sales, signed a swath of executive...

James M. Dorsey

Mar 15, 2025, 10:52 AM

Israel’s times may be ‘a-changin’

When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu first cultivated Evangelical and far-right support for Israel, he didn’t worry about their theologically rooted associations with anti-Semitism and/or willingness to turn a blind eye to racially-motivated anti-Jewish sentiment. It was a bet that paid...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Mar 13, 2025, 10:07 PM

Correcting anti-Israel timeline falsifications

Time is an important fact often forged, as are cause and effect Hasbarah: Stop reading if you don't want to be confused with the facts. The violent anti-Israel protests after the Simchat Torah massacre were not a reaction to Israel hitting...

Mar 11, 2025, 7:14 PM

A Two-State Solution

There is no doubt that the vast majority of Israelis and Jews worldwide would support a Two-State Solution if it could genuinely ensure peaceful and prosperous coexistence between Israel and Palestine. While a form of the Two-State Solution has...

James M. Dorsey

Mar 9, 2025, 3:53 PM

Netanyahu’s reshaped Middle East aligns neatly with Trump’s new world order

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s effort to reshape the Middle East aligns neatly with US President Donald J. Trump’s notion of big power geopolitics. In 2023, Mr. Netanyahu outlined elements of his vision in an address to the United Nations...

Steven E. Zipperstein

Mar 8, 2025, 10:29 AM

Why do citizens of Palestine still have refugee status?

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, poses with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the United Nations headquarters Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

If the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem are an independent state, what is the status of someone born in Ramallah after '49?

Nicholas Woode-Smith

Mar 7, 2025, 9:41 PM

Hague Group’s Anti-Israel Agenda Demands Scrutiny

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa co-published an article on Foreign Policy condemning Israel for allegedly violating international law. (Wikimedia Commons)

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s Foreign Policy article, co-written by Anwar Ibrahim (Prime Minister of Malaysia), Gustavo Petro (President of Columbia), and Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla (a left-wing policy advisor and co-general coordinator of Progressive International), spreads misinformation about Israel, while...

Mar 7, 2025, 5:44 PM

No 2 State Solution, No Place for Palestinians?

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with PLO President Mahmoud Abbas (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

If the PLO and Hamas continue to reject peace deals that offer an independent Palestinian state, whilst continuing to murder, rape and take Israeli civilians hostage as they did on October 7, Israel may resort to drastic measures, in...

James M. Dorsey

Mar 6, 2025, 11:27 PM

With his right hand not knowing what his left hand does, Trump plays with fire

US President Donald J. Trump may be a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Mr. Trump’s dealings this week with the Palestinians tell the story. No stranger to breaking taboos, Mr. Trump instructed...

James M. Dorsey

Mar 5, 2025, 9:12 PM

The logic in Trump’s madness

There is logic to Donald J. Trump’s madness. Irrespective of the merits of the US president’s ethics, policies, and style, Mr. Trump’s grenade-throwing shock-and-awe approach has galvanized Arab states into action over Gaza, much like it did with the Europeans...

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