For years, many analysts of United States foreign policy have argued that our myopic and lock-step support for Israel harms our interests in the Middle East. Their case has been powerfully boosted by the reactions to our policy toward Israel’s merciless bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip. Israel’s actions have undermined American credibility and […]
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China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel
China Has Up To 6 Warships In Mideast Waters As US Carrier Group Moves Closer To Israel Israel’s military has announced Saturday that it drastically stepped up airstrikes in preparation for its “next stage” of the operation against Gaza, in a statement many see as portending an imminent ground invasion. “We need to enter under […]
Biden’s Mideast policy implodes
Joe Biden is overseeing perhaps the most spectacular policy failure in Palestine and Israel in U.S. history. His embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as a symbol of how much he weakened U.S. standing in the region. Source Views: 0
Gaza Carnage Spreads Anger Across Mideast, Alarming U.S. Allies
Antony Blinken had spent much of the past week meeting with Arab leaders to try to ease tensions, but those efforts are now in doubt following the hospital blast. Source Views: 0
War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy
SEP 25, 2023 The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west – to the dustbin. Here’s why. Pepe Escobar The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a massive public diplomacy op launched at the recent […]
Erdogan’s strong showing signals ‘business as usual’ for Mideast
The prospect of Tayip Erdogan winning another presidential term in Turkiye would once have rung alarms around the Middle East, but after taking a more conciliatory stance in recent years his strong election showing on Sunday has caused few flutters, Reuters reports. Erdogan secured just under half the votes and looks well placed for the 28 May runoff against […]
What the Saudi-Iran deal means for Palestine, Israel, the U.S., and the Mideast
In a surprising development last weekend, Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed to restore normal relations, reopen embassies in each other’s country, and reactivate security and trade agreements that have lain dormant. The agreement has the potential to shake up both regional and global politics, but could also mean a lot less than it initially seems. […]
Iran accuses US of stoking ‘Iranophobia’ after Biden’s Mideast tour
Iran has accused the United States of stoking tension in the Middle East region by resorting to "Iranophobia" following President Joe Biden's regional tour, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani dismissed claims and accusations against Iran made during Biden's maiden regional trip. He said joint statements made during […]
Shireen Abu Akleh is just a pawn in Biden’s game of Mideast NATO
The Biden administration’s effort to sweep Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing under the rug shows its keenness to extend Trump’s “Abraham Accords” in the Mideast. Those deals make war with Iran more likely, and promote Israeli arm sales and impunity for human rights violations. And as for the Palestinians, they will be completely buried by the […]
Dozens of Princeton Faculty Sign Letter on Mideast Conflict That Condemns Israel’s ‘Jewish Supremacy,’ Does Not Mention Hamas
Princeton University in New Jersey. Photo: Flickr. At least fifty Princeton University faculty and staff signed a statement condemning “the ongoing attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza by the Israeli armed forces,” in an open letter that decried Israel as a system based on Jewish supremacy, and made no mention of the Hamas militant […]
UN General Assembly to Meet Over Mideast Violence on Thursday
FILE PHOTO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a virtual meeting with UN General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir via videoconference from the State Department in Washington, US, March 29, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Leah Millis/Pool The UN General Assembly will meet on Thursday over fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants, General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir said […]
For Second Time, US Blocks Security Council Statement on Mideast Violence
United Nations Security Council members attend a meeting on the Middle East, at the UN headquarters, in New York City, Dec. 18, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Shannon Stapleton. JNS.org – For the second time this week, the United States blocked a UN Security Council joint statement on the continued violence between the Israelis and Palestinians. […]
If current Mideast violence a test, some experts say Biden is failing
Browse > Home / Featured Articles / If current Mideast violence a test, some experts say Biden is failing May 13, 2021 by Josh Hasten – JNS Read on for article The Biden administration has come under withering criticism in the United States and Israel for its poor handling of the current situation in the […]
Dozens killed in Mideast conflict that recalls 2014 Gaza war
Palls of gray smoke rose in Gaza, as Israeli airstrikes struck apartment towers and blasted multiple Hamas security installations. In Israel, hundreds of rockets fired by Gaza’s Hamas rulers and other militants at times overwhelmed missile defenses and sent air-raid sirens and explosions echoing across Tel Aviv, Israel’s biggest metropolitan area, and other cities. The […]
Netanyahu’s political troubles could reverberate across Mideast
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
Mideast Quartet urges ‘meaningful’ dialogue to reach two-state solution
AFP — The four members of the so-called Middle East quartet discussed the resumption of “meaningful negotiations” to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in their first meeting since US President Joe Biden took office. The body, which comprises the US, Russia, the EU and the UN, met virtually on Tuesday, a UN statement said. “The Envoys… […]
Mideast Quartet Discusses Reviving ‘Meaningful’ Israel, Palestinian Peace Talks
The United Nations logo is seen at the 2019 United Nations Climate Action Summit at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 23, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson The Middle East quartet of mediators — the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations — discussed on Tuesday reviving “meaningful negotiations” between Israel and the […]
China floats Mideast initiative, offers to host Israeli, Palestinian officials
China is set to take a more active role in encouraging negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, offering to host officials from both sides for a summit, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the Saudi news network al-Arabiya Wednesday. Wang said that China will advance a five-point plan to realize “regional peace and stability in […]
Mideast arms imports grew by a quarter in a decade, watchdog says
News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0