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Analysis: Hezbollah’s terror tunnels uncovered

Posted 13 December, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah have risen sharply following the discovery of attack tunnels and awarning by the terror chief’s deputy head this weekend that its rockets can now hit the entire country “even Tel Aviv”. Last week, Israel began a major military operation on its northern border in order to expose and destroy Hezbollah tunnels crossing…

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Analysis: Police recommend new bribery charges against Netanyahu

Posted 5 December, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal difficulties deepened further on Saturday with police recommending new bribery charges against him. In potentially the most serious of several cases involving the prime minister – known as “Case 4000” – police have recommended that he face charges of accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust, and fraudulently accepting benefits. In February, police announced that they had recommended…

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Analysis: Netanyahu pulls teetering coalition back from the brink – but for how long?

Posted 20 November, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Thirty years ago this month, Yitzhak Shamir eked out a narrow win in Israel’s general election. That election marked the last occasion when an Israeli government has managed to serve out its full term. Coalition crises and prime ministers “cutting and running” in a bid to capitalise on political opportunities to win early re-election have shortened…

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Analysis: Gazans reject Hamas tactics, want deal with Israel

Posted 8 November, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Ordinary Gazans oppose the bloody, Hamas-led weekly border protests and want a ceasefire with Israel, newly released polling shows. The research – carried out among representative samples of approximately 500 randomly selected Gazans during early October by the Bethlehem-based Palestine Centre for Public Opinion and by a Ramallah-based organisation – shows the conflict-weary population of the Gaza Strip adopts…

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Analysis: PA and Hamas guilty of “systematic” torture, says human rights group

Posted 31 October, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Palestinian Territories
The “machineries of repression” utilised by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to crush their opponents and silence dissenters has been detailed in a shocking new report by Human Rights Watch. A two-year investigation by HRW, Two Authorities, One Way, Zero Dissent, accuses both the PA, which runs the West Bank, and Gaza’s Islamist rulers, Hamas, of engaging…

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Analysis: Has the murder of Khashoggi scuppered Trump’s peace plan?

Posted 23 October, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Rarely has an American administration invested such hope in – or kow-towed so nakedly to – a Middle Eastern state in the manner which Donald Trump’s has done since taking office last January. The president’s entire strategy for the region appears to have been shaped by a belief that Saudi Arabia could help him achieve multiple…

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Analysis: Is Iran planning European terror campaign?

Posted 17 October, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hezbollah, Iran
Iran may be planning to unleash a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Europe, the US media has reported. The fears have been sparked by the arrest of a senior Iranian diplomat, accused of helping to prepare an attack on a rally of dissidents in Paris. The foiled plot, suggested the Washington Post, has led to “growing anxiety…

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Analysis: PA’s terror salaries condemned after Barkan attack

Posted 11 October, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
A fatal terror attack that killed two Israeli citizens in the Barkan industrial park in the West Bank has cast a renewed spotlight on the Palestinian Authority's policy of paying salaries to convicted terrorists. Last Sunday a Palestinian worker at the industrial park killed two of his colleagues. Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 28, and Ziv Hajbi, 35,…

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Analysis: Syrian friendly fire incident causes Israel-Russia relationship to sour

Posted 4 October, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The fragile working relationship between Israel and Russia in Syria – which gave Israel freedom of manoeuvre in Syrian skies – has come under severe strain after the downing of a Russian Ilyushin military intelligence plane, killing the 15 servicemen on board. The incident, which occurred in mid-September, saw…

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