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Analysis: Clashes at the Gaza border leave sixteen Palestinians dead

Posted 4 April, 2018 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Sixteen Palestinians – eleven of whom were known members of terror organisations – died during clashes on the border between Gaza and Israel on Friday. The clashes took place in the context of a series of protests at the Gaza border, calling for the fulfilment of the Palestinian ‘right of return’. Friday’s events were the beginning…

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Analysis: Israel’s weekend of terror

Posted 23 March, 2018 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Three Israelis were murdered in a weekend of terror attacks in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four, was stabbed to death near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday. Two days earlier, two Israeli soldiers were killed and another two injured following a car ramming attack outside a military…

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Analysis: Trump’s peace plan: the ultimate deal?

Posted 16 March, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
  President Trump’s long-awaited Middle East plan is close to completion, according to reports in the US media last weekend. The timing of its release is not yet confirmed and details of its contents are highly guarded. However, the president’s enthusiasm for negotiating the "ultimate deal" – a peace agreement which brings an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – seemingly…

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Analysis: Who could replace Netanyahu?

Posted 1 March, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
The formal decision by Israel’s national police chief, Roni Alsheikh, to recommend indicting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a range of corruption charges has many on the left heralding the end of the Likud leader. Opposition leader Avi Gabbay proclaimed “The Netanyahu era is over”. Such pronouncements may be premature. The crucial decision on whether or…

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Analysis: Iran and Israel face off over Syria

Posted 14 February, 2018 in Analysis, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel
  Despite the shock which accompanied it, there was an inevitability to the confrontation between Israel and Iran which took place over the skies of Syria and northern Israel last weekend. This may, moreover, be simply a harbinger of more – and worse – to come. The events unfolded in four distinct stages: On Saturday morning, Israeli forces…

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Analysis: Secret pact between Israel and Egypt against Islamic State

Posted 8 February, 2018 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East
  Israel has been covertly launching strikes against Islamic State in Sinai as part of a two-year  campaign secretly approved by Egypt, US media revealed last weekend. The airstrikes – carried out by unmarked Israeli warplanes, drones and helicopters – are estimated to be taking place at the rate of at least once a week. The targeted jihadis…

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Analysis: Abbas speech peddles “antisemitic fictions”

Posted 17 January, 2018 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons In an angry, some believe valedictory, address on Sunday evening, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, delivered a series of broadsides against Israel, rejected the nascent US peace plan and vowed to continue paying salaries to convicted Palestinian terrorists. Abbas’ speech drew sharp criticism from across the Israeli political spectrum, with Labor…

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