This agreement simply restores the pre-war status quo without resolving any of the underlying issues.
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Iran and Israel have attacked each other for the first time since April.
Ordinary Lebanese and Israeli people are caught in the middle of a longstanding conflict between the Israeli government and Hezbollah.
Unable to defeat Iran, Israel shifts its focus to Lebanon, fearing U.S. negotiations with Tehran could limit operations against Hezbollah.
The US and Israel believed that military superiority would be enough to humble Iran. It looks as if they were wrong.
A decade of shifting regional alliances, continuous conflict and outside interventions have narrowed the path for diplomacy.
Israel has upped the intensity of its campaign in Lebanon, despite the signing of a ceasefire in the Middle East.
With Trump trying to get out and Netanyahu determined not to give up in Lebanon, a path to peace is hard to find.
The two-week agreement, brokered by Pakistan, temporarily halts violence and reopens the Strait of Hormuz – but the path to peace remains complicated.
The vote to have death by hanging as the default for Palestinians guilty of killing Israelis represents the further entrenchment of a two-tier legal system.
Donald Trump and his senior advisers have threatened to leave Nato over alliance members’ reluctance to join the war in Iran.
The Israeli prime minister’s chances of re-election are likely to hang on the outcomes of the war against Iran.
The war in the Middle East is a huge political book for the Israeli prime minister in an election year – but it may come at a great cost.
Donald Trump will probably lean into his rhetorical strengths and try to convince Americans the U.S. has won in Iran when it hasn’t.
Studying the economics of war reveals how some democracies start wars and commit human rights abuses while corporations profit.
Over neatly five decades, Tehran has threatened to close the waterway whenever faced with an international crisis.
Politicians from all three Abrahamic religions are using scripture to back their positions.
The US and Israel have taken a huge risk by attacking Iran. This war will make the world a more dangerous place.
Rhetoric on both sides has gone from criticising the behaviour of their adversary to labeling its character as fundamentally ‘evil’.
The resumption of war between Hezbollah and Israel has raised the prospect of an occupation of southern Lebanon.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Research Scholar, Middle East Studies, Australian National University
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Australian National University; The University of Western Australia; Victoria University
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