Posts Tagged: Israel Arab World
Israel Is Overhauling Its Defense Ideology; Will Arab States Finally Support It?
Israel is perhaps the most muscular and influential power in the Middle East today. When Israel changes its defense ideology, as per the Nagel Committee...
US Loses Some Credibility in the Middle East, But All Is Not Lost for the Future
A recent poll of Arab public opinion suggests US credibility has taken a hit, but all is not lost. For this to happen, the United...
Israel Could Be Key to 2020 Middle East Geopolitics
The geopolitics of the Middle East are changing rapidly, and competition among the key players is at a peak. The region straddles the three continents...
Saudi Arabia and Israel: Who Needs Whom?
The relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia has been warming up for some time. Both countries were alarmed by what their respective governments saw as...
Noura Erakat’s Reinterpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - Noura Erakat’s speech at Columbia Law School on October 24 was articulate and intelligent, mirroring many students on our campus. The Palestinian American...
Arab-Israeli Progress: Grateful for a Ray of Light
JNS.org - "There’s a crack in everything,” Leonard Cohen famously wrote in one of his songs. “That’s how the light gets in.” For the better part...
The 20th Century Pogroms Against the Jews of the Middle East: Will Christians Suffer the Same Fate?
A look at developments in the Middle East over the past decades gives the clear impression that the region is becoming “cleansed” of minorities, especially...
Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem
A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem from Jordan signals a sharper, more overt edge to Saudi...
Why Arabs and Muslims Will Not Accept Israel as the Jewish State
Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital aroused massive outrage in the Arab and Islamic world. This was for two main reasons -- one...
The Nine Challenges Facing Israel
Not since the creation of the State of Israel has the country found itself in such an advantageous position. While a genuine peace settlement with the...
The Arab Definition of ‘Peace’ in 1948: Israel’s Destruction
This comes from a July 8, 1948, memo from the Arab League to UN mediator Count Bernadotte rejecting the extension of the truce during Israel's...
UAE Newspaper Clams Israeli Schools Teach Kids to Murder Non-Jews (UPDATE)
Emirati News writes about a supposed investigation into Israeli schools and how they teach kids to kill Arabs as part of the curriculum. According to this...
Israel, Colonialism, and the Arab World
It's been 46 years since the late French Marxist scholar Maxime Rodinson published his influential essay, and later book: "Israel: colonial settler state? " Reinforced by...
Beitar Jerusalem and the Double Standard Against Israel
So often there is an unfair double standard applied to Israel. When media outlets ignore the slaughter of tens of thousands of Arabs in Syria...
