On the question of who stood to benefit from October 7, Western intelligence turns its gaze to Doha. BY MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG Enemies of enemies are famously friends…
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Efraim Halevy says the Israeli prime minister has failed to bring Hamas to its knees and cannot unite his own country Gabrielle Weiniger, Tel Aviv…
On September 11, 2001, the world was shocked by the largest terror attacks in human history, which claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people. On October…
Hugo Bergman (1883-1975), Israeli philosopher, Born in Prague. He studied philosophy at the University of Prague and Berlin. In 1920, he immigrated to Palestine. Where he…
The death of eighty-six-year-old Emir Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah was not unexpected. He had been hospitalized for undisclosed reasons in November, and his increasingly poor health had…
A bad peace that does not address the issue of Hamas violence will only defer war to a later date. Two months into the war in…
On a visit to Paris to mark the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the HIV virus, the former chief medical advisor to seven US presidents…
Dear Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, After greetings, I would like to begin by checking on your son Yair, who is following the Gaza war from the…
DispatchesThe great divide we are witnessing today in the Middle East is, in part, the result of European interference. The great divide we are witnessing today…
Hamas’ surrender would break the binary choice between conflict and ceasefire. “If Hamas cared at all for Palestinian lives, it would release all the hostages,…
Police harshly cracked down against the unauthorised demonstration led by businessman Durga Pasai. By exploiting widespread poverty, the anti-system activist wants to restore a Hindu state…
In the first days after the Hamas attack on October 7th, I heard the same opinion from an Arab Israeli friend living in Jerusalem. I immediately…
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(DAVID BEN GURION AND YITZHAK BEN ZVI (R) AS LAW STUDENTS IN TURKEY, 1912) * This is a topic that has been widely covered by…
Editor’s note: The following is the last article written for Gatestone by Burak Bekdil, a few days before he tragically passed away last month. Burak was an…
Riyadh joins other moderate Arab states in rejecting a call to isolate the Jewish state over its war against Hamas. Saudi Arabia on Saturday helped…
For nearly two decades, Israel has eschewed making strategic choices in dealing with the terrorist groups that surround it, relying instead on deterrence to minimize their…
#Hamas is not Arab. #Resistance is not Arab. Rather, it is Islamo-political and subservient to foreign ambitions. The so-called Resistance is part of Islamic…
In the early years of my migration to America, I was invited to the luxurious home of a respected lawyer in Florida. Upon my arrival, he…
What seems to be forgotten by many is that the Israel Hamas war started with a slaughter of civilians inside Israel on 7 October 2023. Civilians,…
A candlelit vigil in Tel Aviv for those killed or taken hostage by Hamas earlier this month We have battled Netanyahu and the right wing for…
Rome/Shaffaf– In Rome to attend the World Food Forum, Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid reiterated his request, declined six months earlier, for a meeting…
(Israeli students at Tel Aviv University hold Palestinian and Israeli flags while protesting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government on Jan. 16, 2023) * BY SARAH…
Today, I watched an excellent and balanced discussion on CNN, hosted by one of its most prominent anchors, Christiane Amanpour, with Queen Rania of Jordan. Queen…
The war triggered by Hamas’ barbaric attacks will be the first zero-sum conflict in the Arab-Israeli arena since 1948. Israel has defined its war aims…
Burak Bekdil, 1966-2023. (Image source: BESA Center video screenshot) All of us at Gatestone are so immensely saddened by the sudden loss of the remarkable journalist,…
If the war over Gaza spreads to Lebanon, would a regional conflict become inescapable? Virtually all the major parties involved probably don’t want it to escalate…
Since the start of the new war sparked by the “Hamas invasion” from “Gaza” (liberated from “Occupation” in 2005) towards southern Israel, attention has been implicitly,…
There is still a slim chance of peace if wiser counsels prevail and other major powers intervene in a coalition of the willing Israel has just…
The last few days have been amongst the most difficult of my life, facing a reality I thought I could never see. The last three days since I…
Hamas’ operation against Israel on October 7 was a major step in the Iranian effort to take control of the Palestinian cause. The surprise…
SummarNorthwestern Syria is being consolidated into an effective canton protected and sustained by—and dependent on—Türkiye. Given the lack of prospects for any side to secure a…
Op-Ed Geographer and Arab world specialist Ali Bensaad attributes the deteriorating condition of the dams and the anarchic urbanization of the city, which exacerbated the…
There is a long-suffering people in Sudan, they live on a rugged mountain in the middle of Darfur. Theirs is a primitive life but they are…
The ASC President H.E. Sheikh Salman Al-Sabah received a letter of congratulation from His Highness Deputy Amir and the Crown Prince of Kuwait Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad…
(Druze protesting in Syria.) The most immediate reason for the outbreak of protests in mostly Druze areas is Assad’s decision to eliminate fuel subsidies, resulting…
(Nasrallah (center) with Al-‘Arouri (right) and Al-Nakhaleh (Image: almanar.com.lb, hamas.ps, jehad.ps, September 2, 2023) * Lately there have been growing indications that a war against Israel…
(Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin (L) in Moscow, Russia on July 05, 2023) * The rise of private military…
The Wagner mercenary boss was counting on solidarity from senior army officers, and since he came close to reaching Moscow without encountering any particular resistance, he…
Iskander-M short-range ballistic missile system with two 9M723K5 missile. The Iskander system is reported to be capable of firing ballistic missiles that can carry a tactical…
Saudi Arabia’s stunning sports acquisition blitz, alongside Qatari and Emirati European club purchases, may reshape the beautiful game, just not in ways Crown Prince Mohammed bin…
BY LAURA SILVER AND SARAH AUSTIN Hundreds of thousands of people have marched in Israel in recent weeks over a controversial judicial overhaul spearheaded by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. …
20 июля 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin’s coup attempt in June left everyone in the world stunned – except Russian intelligence officials, some of whom tacitly supported the…
Ongoing fighting in the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp may be part of a plan to weaken Fatah and undermine normalization with Israel. In the past…
In a video that has gone viral on Iranian social media this week, well-known economist Mohsen Renani says the clerical regime in Iran cannot survive. Reani…
The person who suffered most of all from Prigozhin’s uprising was Putin. However confident the Russian president may feel in the aftermath, he messed up. He…
For the hundreds of thousands of Israeli democracy defenders who tried to block Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial coup on Monday, the stripping of the Israeli…
In his May 16, 2023 column in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Qabas, liberal Kuwaiti journalist Ahmad Al-Sarraf harshly criticized the curricula taught in Kuwaiti schools, which, he…