Category: Middle East
Retirement or Leader of the Opposition: What Does the Future Hold for Prime Minister Netanyahu?
If the chairman of Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, ends up forming a coalition with the New Right head, Naftali Bennett, Netanyahu will need to decide what to do next. And his former media adviser says he will probably opt to sit on the benches of the opposition and wait for better days, when his political rivals are weakened. …
Global Anti-Semitism on the Rise, as Israel ‘Has no Strategy’ to Oppose It, Ex-Diplomat Says
In 2014, during Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge”, the country invested only 0.38 percent of its total budget in foreign relations and diplomacy, way less than the Palestinian Authority and Iran. Years later, in 2021, the situation hasn’t improved and the reason for this is the reluctance of the Israeli leadership to adopt certain policies. …
Israeli General Says 11-Day Gaza War Just ‘First Stage’ of Wider Campaign
After the Second Intifada uprising and the 2006 election victory of Hamas in Gaza, Israel was forced to pull all its settlers out of the Gaza Strip, at which time it imposed a cordon sanitaire around the territory that has dramatically impacted access to basic necessities by its more than 2 million Palestinian inhabitants. …
