• Policy Analysis
    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Israel’s Smearing Campaign against Qatar: Latent Motives and Objectives

    Feb 3, 2026The Unit for Political Studies

    Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza, analysts, governments, and media outlets have debated Qatar’s involvement with Hamas and its wider role in Middl…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign Policy

    International Law and the Trump Board of Peace Charter

    Jan 21, 2026Brian Brivati

    President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace (BoP) and the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) raise several international significant legal is…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Turkey’s Emerging Role in Trump’s Gaza Plan

    Dec 17, 2025Salim Çevik

    President Donald Trump envisions a central role for Turkey in Gaza. At the October 2025 Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit, Trump named Turkey as one of four guarant…

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Who Profits? US Corporations and the Whitewashing of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

    Nov 11, 2025Annelle Sheline

    Since Israel began its brutal assault on Gaza in October 2023, observers have asked how the world could allow the indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians to c…

  • Policy Analysis
    QatarUS Foreign Policy

    Qatar Copes with Trump’s Middle East Vision

    Nov 6, 2025Daniel Brumberg

    Among Arab states, perhaps none faces a more complex challenge in managing relations with President Donald Trump than Qatar. Ironically, Doha’s deepening partn…

  • Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The Willing Fools’ Peace of the Middle East

    Rather than serving as a forum for hashing out difficult next steps for Gaza, the Sharm summit was largely a congratulatory gesture to Donald Trump.

  • Policy Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    The Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Gaza: A Legal Analysis

    Oct 9, 2025Jonathan Kuttab

    Much 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 Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution

    Why the Rush to Recognize Palestine? And Does It Matter?

    Oct 8, 2025Charles W. Dunne

    Recognition 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 Analysis
    TurkeyThe War on Gaza

    Beyond Gaza: The Strategic Fault Lines in Turkey–Israel Relations

    Oct 2, 2025Salim Çevik

    Turkey–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…

  • Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    On September 29, the White House announced a new 20-point plan for ending the Israeli war on Gaza that includes, among other things, provisions for an immediat…

  • Policy Analysis
    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Israel’s Attack on Qatar and the End of Diplomacy

    Sep 30, 2025Nabeel A. Khoury

    On 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 Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Gaza’s Medical Crisis and the US Visa Freeze

    Sep 25, 2025Yara M. Asi

    On 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 …

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