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LebanonConflicts and Conflict ResolutionWill the Ceasefire in Gaza Impact Disarmament in Lebanon?
Oct 22, 2025Patricia KaramIn late September 2025, nearly two years after the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, President Donald Trump unveiled a highly touted 20-point “peace plan” that pr…
- Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelInternational LawConstruction in the E1 Area: Preventing Palestinian Geographical Contiguity
Oct 22, 2025Mtanes Shihadeh Ikram MohammedThe Israeli government continues to exploit the post-October 7, 2023, situation to impose a new geopolitical and demographic reality in the occupied West Bank,…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Gaza: A Legal Analysis
Oct 9, 2025Jonathan KuttabMuch has been said and written about the Gaza peace plan announced by President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 29, 202…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Why the Rush to Recognize Palestine? And Does It Matter?
Oct 8, 2025Charles W. DunneRecognition of a State of Palestine has recently taken on new momentum. On September 22, 2025, France became the latest country to extend recognition when Fren…
- Policy AnalysisTurkeyThe War on Gaza
Beyond Gaza: The Strategic Fault Lines in Turkey–Israel Relations
Oct 2, 2025Salim ÇevikTurkey–Israel relations have entered one of their most tense periods in years, triggered by a series of regional developments that have transformed the two cou…
- Policy AnalysisQatarThe War on Gaza
Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the End of Diplomacy
Sep 30, 2025Nabeel A. KhouryOn September 9, 2025, Israel attacked a Hamas delegation in Doha, Qatar, as it was meeting to discuss the latest US-brokered ceasefire proposal to halt the war…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
Gaza’s Medical Crisis and the US Visa Freeze
Sep 25, 2025Yara M. AsiOn July 7, 2024, an Israeli bombing in Khan Younis, Gaza, killed the parents, brother, and sister of a three-year-old Palestinian boy named Adam. While Adam’s …
- Policy AnalysisQatarThe War on Gaza
Striking a US Ally: Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the Erosion of Regional Stability
Sep 9, 2025Hanna Alshaikh Charles W. Dunne Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Yousef Munayyer Kristian Coates UlrichsenOn the morning of September 9, 2025, 15 Israeli jets carried out an airstrike on residential buildings in Doha, Qatar. Israel claimed that the strike was a pre…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Trump’s Support for Netanyahu: A Political Liability?
Aug 29, 2025Gregory AftandilianDespite occasional irritations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump has made unconditional US backing of the Israeli leader a…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
Netanyahu’s Extreme Vision for Gaza
Aug 22, 2025Khalil E. JahshanIn a highly publicized foreign press conference in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed with uncharacteristic clarity his p…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
The Growing Consensus over Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Aug 19, 2025Yara M. AsiJust one week after October 7, 2023, more than 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies, and genocide studies signed a public stat…
- Research PaperPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The New York Declaration on the Two-State Solution: More Empty Promises?
Aug 15, 2025Susan M. AkramThe New York Declaration on the “Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” is the outcome document of …
- From our AffiliatesSaudi ArabiaThe War on Gaza
Saudi Arabia’s Response to Israel’s New Security Doctrine in the Levant
Aug 14, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesIn July 2025, Saudi Arabia and France jointly convened a high-profile diplomatic conference in New York dedicated to reviving momentum for a negotiated two-sta…
- Policy AnalysisLebanonRegional Relations and Geopolitics
Rumors and Risks: Lebanon’s Political Anxieties and Relations with the New Syria
Aug 12, 2025Patricia KaramIn May 2025, Syria’s transitional President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, confirmed that his government was in indirect communication with Israel, the first time the two s…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Starved, Ruined, and Displaced: What’s Next for Gaza?
Jul 18, 2025Mohammed SamhouriIn recent weeks, two significant developments have dominated the news from Gaza. One is the daily deadly violence surrounding the operations of the new Gaza Hu…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Palestine and the Middle East After the Iran-Israel war
Jul 15, 2025Rami G. KhouriThe Middle East in recent months has witnessed multiple military and ideological confrontations. Historic changes in regional power balances signal new strateg…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
A Trump-Netanyahu New Middle East?
Jul 9, 2025Nabeel A. KhouryThe Trump administration and the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been following a roadmap toward their own version of a…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Trump Must Push for a Gaza Ceasefire Without Indulging Netanyahu’s Iran Strategy
Jul 7, 2025Daniel BrumbergWe may never, or at least not anytime soon, know definitively how much of Iran's nuclear program Israel and the United States destroyed. But even if the attack…
- Research PaperPalestine/IsraelRegional Relations and Geopolitics
The Shifting Sands of European Diplomacy: The EU’s Evolving Alignment with Israel
Jun 24, 2025Isabel RuckAbstractThis paper examines the evolution of the European Union's (EU) foreign policy stance toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically focusing on …
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Hunger in Gaza and the Ongoing Weaponization of Aid
Jun 20, 2025Yara M. Asi“Hunger slowly crushes you. It feels like dying alone in a desert that no foot has ever touched. I cannot sleep properly or sit still long enough to read. I fe…
- ViewpointIranUS Foreign Policy
President Trump’s Iran War
Jun 20, 2025Yousef MunayyerAs the smoke rises above Iran and Israel after waves of Israeli airstrikes and Iranian retaliation, only one thing is immediately clear: President Donald Trump…
- ViewpointIranUS Foreign Policy
Political Divisions Over Israel’s Iran Attack Highlight Tough Choices for Trump
Jun 19, 2025Charles W. DunneIsrael’s attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities and an ever-expanding list of targets has exposed fundamental disagreements among Americans over support for Isr…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance
The Significance of Hussein al-Sheikh’s Appointment as PLO Vice President
Jun 17, 2025Rami G. KhouriWhen Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), he sent many signals to …
- ViewpointIranUS Foreign Policy
Israel’s Iran Assault Has Created a Crisis for Which Trump Is Not Prepared
Jun 16, 2025Daniel BrumbergOver the last 18 months, Iran quadrupled its stock of 60 percent enriched uranium. Yet however “successful,” this effort was fraught with danger for the Islami…
- ViewpointIranUS Foreign Policy
The 2025 Israel-Iran War: The American Dimension
Jun 16, 2025Khalil E. JahshanFor the past three decades as a political figure, Benjamin Netanyahu has been obsessed with Iran’s perceived existential threat to Israel, particularly its eme…
- Policy AnalysisYemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Yemen’s Houthi Movement Reconsidered
Jun 12, 2025Nabeel A. KhouryIn January 2019, this author posed the question, “can one make peace with the Houthis of Yemen?” In the six years since, the Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah…
- From our AffiliatesPalestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
Transformations in European Attitudes toward the Genocidal War on Gaza
Jun 4, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesRecent weeks have seen a remarkable shift in European policy on Gaza. After more than 18 months of support for, silence on, or, at the very least, turning a bl…
- ViewpointLebanonSecurity and Defense
The Prickly Issue of Disarming Palestinian Factions in Lebanon
Jun 4, 2025Imad K. HarbLebanese President Joseph Aoun and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently reached an agreement to regulate the presence of armed Palestinian factions in …
- Policy AnalysisLevantJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s Justice System and the Genocidal War on Gaza
May 30, 2025Nareman Shehadeh-ZoabiIntroductionDespite attempts to portray it as liberal, many consider the justice system in Israel to be part of Israel’s illiberal political system. This is b…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Israel’s New Gaza Food Plan: Military-Directed Starvation
May 30, 2025Jonathan KuttabOn May 5, 2025, Israel announced that it had reversed its position on prohibiting all food and other humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, and is launching a ne…
- Policy AnalysisYemenUS Foreign Policy
Implications of the US-Houthi Ceasefire Deal
May 21, 2025Gregory AftandilianPresident Donald Trump’s surprise announcement on May 6 of a ceasefire deal with Yemen’s Houthis—in which the militant group pledged not to target American shi…
- Intern CornerPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Occupation Funded, Development Denied: How American Aid Cuts Affect the West Bank
May 16, 2025Adriana HashemOn his first day back in the White House, President Donald Trump made his opening moves to dismantle the fiscal and ideological foundations of American foreign…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelDemocracy and Governance
Has Netanyahu’s Government Become More Cohesive and Stable?
May 8, 2025Mtanes ShihadehIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has worked in recent weeks to put his government coalition in order, reintegrating Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and h…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Israeli Practices in the Occupied West Bank: A Prelude to Annexation
May 7, 2025Jonathan KuttabWhile world attention has focused on the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for the past year and a half, significant events in the occupied West Bank have gone les…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel’s False Paramedics Story Exemplifies Its Information War Against Palestinians
May 1, 2025Yara M. AsiOver the past 18 months, a seemingly unending stream of horrific stories has emerged from Gaza, publicized across social media and in humanitarian reports.Thes…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
A Calculus of Conflict: Netanyahu’s Political Survival Through Extended War
Apr 16, 2025Thair Abu RasAfter nearly two months of ceasefire, the Israeli government resumed its genocidal campaign in Gaza in March 2025. The Israeli government’s decision was not su…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and Elections
The United States Is a Frontline in the Palestine vs. Israel Conflict
Apr 3, 2025Rami G. KhouriIn the past year—especially over the last two months—unprecedented developments in the Middle East and the United States have pulled the Palestinian struggle f…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelInternational Law
Denying Genocide through Terminological Hairsplitting
Apr 1, 2025Azmi BisharaGenocide is a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, as homicide is the denial of the right to live of individual human beings; such denial o…
- Policy AnalysisIranUS Foreign Policy
Trump’s Impulse-Driven Middle East Policy Creates Dangers and Opportunities
Mar 27, 2025Daniel BrumbergA recent report by a pro-Israel think tank in Washington cautions against making any deal with Iran that does not provide for the total dismantlement of Tehran…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Does Trump Still Want to “Clean Out” the Gaza Strip?
Mar 25, 2025Khalil E. JahshanAs the January 15, 2025 ceasefire agreement that had brought limited calm to Gaza fell apart in early March when Israel resumed its air and land military onsla…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel’s Center-Right and Leftist Parties Have Always Supported Displacing Gaza’s Palestinians
Mar 12, 2025Mtanes ShihadehIntroductionDuring his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, US President Donald Trump announced a plan to displace the residen…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Trump Sidesteps Congress, Giving Billions to Israel
Mar 7, 2025Ethan Mayer-RichFor the second time in six weeks, the Trump administration has bypassed Congress to send Israel billions of dollars of weaponry. Continued US military support …
- Policy AnalysisEgyptUS Foreign Policy
Trump’s Favorite Dictator Feels the Heat
Feb 28, 2025Imad K. HarbUS President Donald Trump appears to have developed different ideas about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi upon whom he bestowed the moniker “favorite d…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
The Lessons from Gaza Manifest in the West Bank: Israel’s Escalating Threats to Palestinian Life
Feb 26, 2025Yara M. AsiPalestinian fatalities from Israeli military actions and settler violence have reached unprecedented heights since October 2023.
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Domestic Politics and Elections
The Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Activism Intensifies in the United States
Feb 26, 2025Ethan Mayer-RichThe new Trump administration has made it clear that repressing pro-Palestine activism is a priority. Trump issued an executive order that the White House said …
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Recent Arab Moves Deserve Bold Follow-Up
Feb 21, 2025Rami G. KhouriFour key political actors in the Middle East have recently made surprising moves that offered hints of how Arab states and non-state actors can collectively en…
- Policy AnalysisSaudi ArabiaUS Foreign Policy
Normalization and Displacement: Saudi Arabia and Trump’s Gaza Proposal
Feb 20, 2025The Unit for Political StudiesSaudi Arabia is deeply concerned about the risks that Trump’s Gaza project poses to Egypt and Jordan and are uneasy about repeated American and Israeli stateme…
- ViewpointJordanUS Foreign Policy
An Existential Oval Office Moment for Jordan—and All Arabs
Feb 14, 2025Rami G. KhouriThe scene in the White House on February 11 was startling. King Abdullah II of Jordan listened to President Donald Trump ramble on about how the United States …
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
The Gaza War and the Future of Democracy in the United States and Israel
Feb 14, 2025Daniel BrumbergIn a way that few could have predicted a few short weeks ago, the fate of democracy in the United States (and in some ways Israel) has now been irrevocably tie…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
The Drama, Delusion, and Dangers of Trump’s Gaza Plan
Feb 6, 2025Rami G. KhouriDonald Trump displayed his usual combination of disruption and delusion with his proposal for the US to take over the Gaza Strip after displacing its Palestini…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelInternational Law
The Slowdown in Enforcing International Law
Jan 29, 2025Jonathan KuttabInternational law has helped govern the behavior of states for hundreds of years. Early principles like the prohibition on poisoning wells (rooted in just war …
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy
Trump Will Not Stop Israel from Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory
Jan 24, 2025Daniel BrumbergSeveral observers of the Middle East have suggested that President Donald Trump’s “transactional” instincts could impel him to push for a wider Palestinian-Isr…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Incoherent Ceasefire Deal in Gaza Guaranteed to Fail
Jan 21, 2025Khalil E. JahshanAfter fifteen months of brutal military hostilities in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and Israel finally announced their acceptance of a multi-phased and gradual ceasef…
- Policy AnalysisThe Arab World
How Will 2025 Be Different in the Middle East? Perspectives on the New Year
Jan 15, 2025Khalil E. Jahshan Daniel Brumberg Dana El Kurd Imad K. Harb Patricia Karam Nabeel A. Khoury Yousef Munayyer Annelle ShelineThe monumental events that took place in the Middle East in 2024 augur radical changes in the region’s geopolitical environment. Israel’s ongoing genocidal war…
- Intern CornerPalestine/IsraelProtests and Activism
The Ongoing Suppression of Pro-Palestinian Advocacy in the United States
Jan 8, 2025Selma KarameOn October 15, 2024, the United States and Canada jointly announced terrorist sanctions against the Vancouver-based NGO Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarit…
- Policy AnalysisLebanonDemocracy and Governance
Lebanon’s Post-Hezbollah “Day After”
Jan 7, 2025Patricia KaramThe surprising fall of the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria on the heel of Hezbollah’s spectacular losses and, with it, the tremendous weakening of Ir…
- Policy AnalysisLebanonGlobal Health and Health Policy
Lebanon’s Health System: Decades of Struggle and a Year of Israeli Attacks
Jan 2, 2025Yara M. AsiOn September 17 and 18, 2024, a coordinated Israeli attack turned pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon into explosive devices, killing at least 42 people and i…
- ViewpointPalestine/IsraelInternational Law
Israel, Syria, and International Law
Dec 26, 2024Jonathan KuttabThe fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has provided Israel with yet more opportunities to brazenly tear apart the fabric of international legal norms, f…
- ViewpointLebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel’s Violations of the Ceasefire with Hezbollah Threaten to Undo It
Dec 10, 2024Imad K. HarbThe ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Lebanon on November 27 was a welcome development after 14 months of skirmishes between the Israeli Army and …
- Policy AnalysisLebanonIdentity Politics and Sectarianization
Hezbollah’s Likely Demise and Lebanon’s Uncertain Future
Dec 4, 2024Patricia KaramIsrael's approval of a US-brokered ceasefire with Hezbollah set the stage for an end to fourteen months of fighting between the two parties, ushering in the po…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelIsraeli War Tactics and Genocide
Motivations for Israel’s Unprecedented Destruction of Palestinian Lives
Dec 2, 2024Daoud KuttabFor over a year, a systematic and unprecedented Israeli campaign of death, injury, and ruin of entire communities has been taking place in Gaza, and in recent …
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelMigrants, Refugees, and IDPs
UNRWA Closure as Prelude to the Elimination of Palestinians’ Right of Return
Dec 2, 2024Mtanes ShihadehThe United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was established in 1949 by a UN General Assembly resolution. Its mai…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelInternational Law
Gaza and Lebanon: No Distinction Between Civilian and Military Targets
Nov 22, 2024Jonathan KuttabOne of the consequences of the present Israeli war on Gaza has been the blatant erosion of respect for and belief in international legal principles and institu…
- Policy AnalysisThe Arabian Peninsula and The GulfRegional Relations and Geopolitics
GCC States Seek Diplomacy During US Absence
Nov 12, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenThe expansion and partial regionalization of what is already the longest and deadliest conflict in the Israeli-Palestinian arena since 1948 presents the Gulf A…
- Policy AnalysisPalestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy
Intent to Destroy: Documenting a Year of Israel’s Attacks on Health in Gaza
Nov 7, 2024Yara M. AsiAfter a year of unfathomable images, videos, and testimonies from Gaza, the story of 19-year-old Shaban al-Dalou still managed to shock the world. On October 1…
