Beware Turkey’s normalisation noise
January 7, 2021 | Oved Lobel
Absent concrete Turkish concessions or a substantial change in the regional situation, no Israeli interests can be served by humouring Erdogan’s outreach or indulging Turkey’s progressively more appalling demands and activities.
‘Tis the season: Israeli Government to dissolve at midnight
December 22, 2020 | Ahron Shapiro
Israel will be headed for its fourth election in the past two years as a last-ditch Knesset vote that would have held the National Emergency Unity Government together failed in a dramatic fashion late last night, 49-47.
Biblio File: A Novel Approach
December 24, 2020 | Allon Lee
Apeirogon (pronounced “a paragon”) is a new novel from Irish author Colum McCann that delves into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The title refers to an object with an infinite number of sides and complexity.
Israel, Biden and Iran
December 23, 2020 | Jacob Nagel
Following President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, the United States is widely expected to re-enter negotiations with Iran. In advance of the election, some advisers to Biden circulated a white paper exploring a return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the flawed 2015 nuclear deal. One controversial option was a return to the interim 2013 deal, the Joint Plan of Action, which yielded Iran hundreds of millions of dollars as a show of good faith.
Implications of the Fakhrizadeh assassination
December 23, 2020 | Ardavan Khoshnood
The elimination of Fakhrizadeh was highly professional and well-planned. The assassins had vital knowledge of both Fakhrizadeh´s security detail and his route. How could this be? There are three possible scenarios, and they are not mutually exclusive.
