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Analysis: Terror at the Temple Mount

Posted 20 July, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Israel, Palestinian Territories
The terrorist attack at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem last week, and ongoing disturbances surrounding new security measures introduced around the holy site by Israel, has thrown a renewed focus on what has been described as “the most incendiary spot in the Middle East”. Two Israeli police officers standing guard at the Lion’s Gate entrance to…

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Analysis: new Labor, new Macron?

Posted 13 July, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Avi Gabbay, a political outsider, was elected leader of the Israeli Labor party on Monday. His upset victory – in the second round of the primary election, Gabbay convincingly defeated Amir Peretz, a one-time party leader and cabinet minister – brought immediate comparisons with the rise of Emmanuel Macron in France. Once Israel’s dominant political force, Labor has…

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Analysis: Light at the end of the tunnel for Gaza?

Posted 3 July, 2017 in Analysis, Hamas, Israel, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Ten years ago this month, Hamas executed a brutal takeover of Gaza, one that saw the terrorist group murder its political opponents and impose an Islamist regime on the poverty-stricken enclave. On three occasions since, most recently in 2014, the group has provoked bloody conflicts with Israel after sustained attacks on Israeli civilians. In each, it…

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Analysis: Bibi the politician versus Bibi the statesman

Posted 14 June, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Israeli Politics
Benjamin Netanyahu and the leader of the Israeli  Labor party, Isaac Herzog, secretly flew to Cairo last April to engage in clandestine talks with Arab leaders aimed at restarting the Middle East peace process. The meeting between Netanyahu, Herzog and Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi was revealed on Monday in the Israeli  media. The Labor leader later confirmed the…

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Analysis: PA’s terror payments revealed

Posted 1 June, 2017 in Analysis, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons The full extent of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of paying “salaries” to terrorists and their families was revealed this week, with the bill said to have exceeded $1bn over the last four years. The figure was revealed by Brig.-Gen (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of Israel ’s Ministry of…

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Analysis: Trump’s new “special relationship”

Posted 25 May, 2017 in Analysis, Iran, Israel, Israeli Politics, Peace process
There are few better examples of the yawning gap between Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric and governing reality than his approach towards Israel . After eight years of Barack Obama’s alleged cool indifference, the Israeli  right were led to believe they would have a “true friend” in the White House once again: one who would stop nagging them about…

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Analysis: What chance for Trump’s “ultimate deal”?

Posted 10 May, 2017 in Analysis, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Donald Trump’s quixotic attempt to broker what he once he termed the “ultimate deal” – a peace agreement between Israel  and the Palestinians – bore its first tentative signs of success this week when President Mahmoud Abbas indicated he was prepared to begin talks with Benjamin Netanyahu. The Palestinian president’s announcement came during meetings in Ramallah with…

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