The Middle East Powder Keg
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
A collection of 43 posts
Fragile ceasefires are holding for now, but the volatile region may be headed for another explosion next year.
Shadi Hamid has an uneasy conscience, and he doesn’t yet know what to do with it.
Doha can change when it is forced to, and it must be forced to choose moderation.
Netanel Flamer’s book about Hamas’s intelligence war on Israel could be read with equal interest by members of Western security forces, and by members of the very groups against which they struggle.
The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October.
Trump’s peace plan brings the hostages home and halts fighting in Gaza, but Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israeli concerns about Palestinian statehood threaten the deal’s long-term survival.
A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
In a dramatic surgical strike, Israel may have decapitated the leadership of Hamas in their luxury exile in Doha. The wisdom of this action remains unclear.
Nurturing an alternative power structure in this kind of politically stunted society will be the work of generations. It can’t be summoned into existence by Western leaders seeking to appease domestic constituencies.
Israel’s multi-front war has transformed the Middle East.
Israel’s humiliation of Iran may have changed the region.
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
Donald Trump has an opportunity to influence the Qatari monarchy away from supporting jihad and towards promoting peace. But will he take it?
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.