Gamal Abdel Nasser

November 10, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Why did Israel’s new foreign minister embrace the Kurdish people?

Israel has long enjoyed positive relations with Kurdish people in the Middle East. It is part of a partnership between Jews and Kurds and also shared interests in the region

September 17, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

The Abraham Accords are not about Palestinians

Palestinians are welcome to join the Israel-Arab accords but if they’d prefer to keep fighting they’ll be on their own

March 7, 2024 | David May, Sabrina Soffer

Anti-Israel faculty group adds fuel to a raging fire

“It’s not safe to be a Jewish student at UC Berkeley.” That was the message a Jewish student delivered before the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee last...

January 26, 2024 | |

Israel: Hamas Terrorists Base Operations from Southern Gaza Hospitals

Hamas terrorists are operating from inside two hospitals in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on January 26. The facilities include the...

November 13, 2023 | |

Israel SitRep: Nov. 13, 2023

Hezbollah Attacks from Lebanon Wound at Least 14 Israelis: On November 12, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for firing anti-tank guided missiles toward Dovev, a moshav near Israel’s northern border,...

November 12, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Gaza hospitals and Nasrallah threats challenge IDF

Israel struggled on two fronts over the weekend, trying to simultaneously pick through a densely populated Gaza while also warding off Hezbollah in northern Israel. In Gaza, the IDF paused operations during...

November 3, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Gaza and the De-Colonization Narrative

Western views of Arab society often get one major thing wrong – Arab agency.

August 26, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

‘Ghosts of Beirut’ gets Hezbollah’s most wanted all wrong

Showtime miniseries is thrilling but its portrayal of Hezbollah’s American-killing Imad Mughniyeh is wide off the historical mark

February 14, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

When will Saudi Arabia Sign Peace with Israel?

Saudi Arabia's new policy, Vision 2030, requires a newer foreign policy on Palestinians

January 9, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz |

Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit

The longer we refuse to acknowledge the mistakes of the Iran deal, the greater a price we pay

December 1, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The End of Arab Nationalism

How the Abraham Accords put the final nail in the coffin of a bad idea.

October 29, 2020 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Saudi Evolution

Fouad Ajami had an odd fondness for Saudi Arabia. He was an Americanized, secular Shiite with European sensibilities who, truth be told, had pretty much burned out on the ugliness of the modern Arab world. He...

June 7, 2020 | Tony Badran |

Bringing the Middle East Back Home

The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas

February 5, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Two Palestinian dreams

The Trump plan is meant to foreclose one and facilitate the other

January 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

BDS Fails to Stop Israeli Artist from Performing Egyptian Songs in Berlin

A Lebanese-based organization that promotes a boycott of the Jewish state failed to stop performances on Saturday and Sunday in Berlin of the Israeli artist Ariel Efraim Ashbel who is celebrating...

June 7, 2017 | Clifford D. May

The Six-Day War and the 50-year occupation

Fifty years ago this week, the young state of Israel faced the threat of extermination – a second Jewish Holocaust in a single century. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated candidly...

May 1, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Russia Risks a Showdown with Israel Over Hezbollah in Syria

Back in 1967, Moscow shrugged when Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran, cutting shipping routes to the Israeli port of Eilat—Israel’s only one in the Red...

December 14, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

How Barack is like Ike

The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U....

October 24, 2016 | Oren Kessler

The Truth About Egypt’s Revolution

The usual account of Egypt’s revolution goes like this: In February 2011, Hosni Mubarak resigned after 18 days...

June 29, 2015 |

New TV Show Highlights Egypt’s Jewish Problem

A new television series is shaking up the lucrative Ramadan viewing season in Egypt. The program – titled “The Jewish Quarter” and set in the late 1940s and early 50s – de...