An extension of the Abraham Accords that saw a string of Middle Eastern countries making peace with Israel is likely to be a priority (Image: Whitehouse.gov/ Flickr)

Trump and the Middle East

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French UNIFIL soldiers in southern Lebanon (Image: Shutterstock)

Lebanon: Optimism and obstacles

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Rabbi Genende (3rd from left) with Christian and Muslim delegates at the Abrahamic Peace Working Group conference in Bandung, Indonesia

The Last Word: Abrahamic angst and aspirations

November 20, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

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Media Microscope: Resolutionary change

November 20, 2024 | Allon Lee

Protests on the streets of Auckland (Image: Rick Neves/ Shutterstock)

AIR New Zealand: Rising antisemitism in NZ is ignored

November 20, 2024 | Miriam Bell

Saddam Hussein astonished everyone with his WMD achievements in the 1980s, and then by secretly dismantling the program in the 1990s (Image: X)

Biblio File: Blind man’s bluff in Iraq

November 20, 2024 | Paul Monk

Projections upon buildings in Doha, Qatar, after the death of Ismail Haniyeh (Image: X)

Qatar obfuscates over Hamas

November 20, 2024 | Yaakov Lappin

BRICS and its "partner countries" (Image: BRICS website)

Asia Watch: Among friends 

November 20, 2024 | Michael Shannon

“Don’t cry – smile a little. It’s best to smile, even to laugh, as long as you still can” – the final message of renowned Holocaust historian Prof Yehuda Bauer (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Essay: “We don’t have another people”

November 20, 2024 | Yehuda Bauer

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Noted and Quoted – December 2024

November 20, 2024 | AIJAC staff

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei: Now hinting his fatwa against building nuclear weapons could soon be reversed (Image: Creative Commons/ Free Malaysia Today)

The view from Teheran

November 20, 2024 | Ray Takeyh, Reuel Marc Gerecht

President-elect Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Michigan, October 2024 (Image: Anna Moneymaker/ Shutterstock)

A guide to Trump’s advisers and first cabinet picks

November 20, 2024 | Jacob Kornbluh