• Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    The Willing Fools’ Peace of the Middle East

    Oct 15, 2025

    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.

  • 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.

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Giving Peace a Real Chance Must Include Refusing to Normalize Genocide

    Oct 15, 2025Yousef Munayyer

    When a deal was sealed in Cairo last week to set the stage for President Trump’s speech at the Israeli Knesset and summit in Sharm El Shaikh a few days later, …

  • 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…

  • Op-Eds
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Gaza Peace Plan Risks Borrowing More From Tony Blair’s Failures in the Middle East Than His Success in Northern Ireland

    Oct 9, 2025Dana El Kurd

    Tony Blair, the man being tapped by U.S. President Donald Trump to help oversee governance of a postwar Gaza, has ample experience with peace processes. As Bri…

  • 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…

  • From our Affiliates
    The Arabian Peninsula and The GulfSecurity and Defense

    Gulf Security After the Israeli Strike on Doha: Waning US Guarantees and Expanding Options

    Oct 2, 2025The Unit for Political Studies

    On September 17, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited Riyadh and announced a defense agreement with Saudi Arabia. The announcement of the Saudi–Paki…

  • From our Affiliates
    QatarThe War on Gaza

    Doha Wasn’t a One‑Off: What Israel’s 9 September Strike Signals?

    Oct 2, 2025Muhanad Seloom

    ​​​On 9 September 2025, Israel launched an airstrike in Doha targeting Hamas’s senior political leadership. The strike killed five Hamas-affiliated figures and…

  • Viewpoint
    SyriaDemocracy and Governance

    The “New Syria” and Reconstruction under Regional Influences

    Oct 2, 2025Isabel Ruck

    On September 24, 2025, interim Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa addressed the 80th United Nations General Assembly—the first time a Syrian president has done s…

  • Collective Analysis
    Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza

    Another Half-Baked Trump Gaza Plan

    Oct 1, 2025

    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…

  • 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…

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