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Blundering

This past week has been characterised by a widespread outbreak of blundering among politicians and officials. In Israel, election fever...

Into the Fray: Iran – Why the war must be won

“How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of...

Feintooner

This week's cartoon: Red Hot Poker Games

UAE plans compound in Israeli-held Gaza Strip part: map

A planning map indicates that a "UAE Temporary Emirates Housing Complex" will be constructed near Rafah in the south...

Trump & Putin: locate state of Palestine east of Jordan River

President Trump’s decision to involve the United Nations Security Council in implementing Trump’s 20 point peace plan has struck...

Please can we get our antiquities back?

Wanted: Ancient ceramic oil lamps from Israel. Last seen on loan to the White House and suspected to be...

A Gaza problem without a solution

If the Trump administration is waving the white flag on its hopes for a fix to Gaza and an Israel-Palestinian peace plan, it’s a sign of realism, not amateurism.

Trump and Putin focus on Syria-Israel, Arab-Jewish conflicts

Defusing the Syria–Israel conflict and resurrecting the primacy of Security Council Resolution 242 in resolving the Arab-Jewish conflict have emerged as positive outcomes from the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki this week...writes David Singer.

Trump unscrambles UN-EU-PLO misinformation omelette

President Trump has started unscrambling the misinformation omelette first cooked up by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) Charter in 1964 and dished out by the United Nations (UN) and European Union (EU) since 1974...writes David Singer.

Trump should adopt Bush strategy to encourage Israel to negotiate

President Bush’s strategy to secure Israel’s agreement to negotiate under the Bush Roadmap should be given serious consideration by President Trump as he puts together his eagerly-anticipated “ultimate deal” to end the Arab-Jewish conflict...writes David Singer.

Trump and Putin must co-operate to defeat Islamic State…writes David Singer

President Trump made his intention to destroy Islamic State crystal clear in his stirring address to the Congress on 28 February:

Bush, Obama, Russia, EU and UN buried under Trump Landslide

President Trump has buried the Bush Roadmap and any lingering hope for the creation of a second Arab State (“the two-state solution”) – in addition to Jordan – in the territory designated under the 1922 Mandate for Palestine...writes David Singer

Trumping Solutions…writes Emily Gian

Two days ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and American President Donald Trump met in Washington for the first time since the latter was inaugurated. The greeting was done in a far warmer manner than similar meeting between Netanyahu and Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama.

Obama exits – Trump enters…writes Michael Kuttner

As Barak Obama leaves the White House and Donald Trump takes up residence, self-proclaimed liberals still cannot accept reality.