Reason to smile: Despite his crimes, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is now being welcomed back into the Arab fold (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
The road back to Damascus
“Stop the killing machine!” demanded Saudi King Abdullah...
Air Force commanders from the US, Italy, the UK, Greece, Cyprus, Norway, the UAE, India, and the Netherlands, as well as ambassadors from France, the UK, Greece, and Germany, gathered for the  international #BlueFlag2021 exercise, hosted by Israel in late October (Photo: Israel Defence Forces)
Exercises demonstrate Israel’s new military ties
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Photograph circulated by the German Luftwaffe on Twitter from the Dubai Air Show shows the head of the German air force conversing with his Israeli, UAE and Jordanian counterparts
Editorial: A new Mid-East defence network
As the US diplomatic effort to prevent Iran...
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Assessing the Bennett-Lapid Government and prospects for 2022 – David Horovitz
David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times...
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The latest on Iran’s regional aggressions
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Iran: Is There a Plan B? – Behnam Ben Taleblu
Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at...
Israel’s Ideologically diverse government cannot reach agreement on relations with the PA – but can do a lot in Israeli Arab communities and with regional Arab nations (Credit: Israel GPO/Flickr)
Israel’s odd coalition and the Arab world
Four months after journeying from the opposite ends...
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Iran – On the Nuclear Threshold?
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One Year of the Abraham Accords: Their Impact and Future – Tal Becker
Legal Adviser of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign...
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A post-Afghanistan policy for Iran
It’s always hard to admit when you’re wrong...
Then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, UAE Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa at the Abraham Accords signing ceremony in Washington DC, 15 September 2020.  (Credit: EPA/JIM LO SCALZO)
A year into the Abraham Accords shines a light into future
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Regional capitals have been seeing signs of a US trend toward military disengagement from the Mideast since at least 2010 (Source: US Army/Flickr)
The Middle East adjusts to US retreat
“The military mission is over,” said US Secretary...