Hamas sees disarmament as parallel to Israeli withdrawal from Gaza; Israel says no withdrawal before complete disarmament.
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In past agreements, there appeared to be a tacit understanding between Hezbollah and Israel that conflict would eventually resume.
President Donald Trump has talked of a potential role for Syrian forces in fighting Hezbollah – a move that would raise alarm in Lebanon.
Reluctance to address settler violence is the outcome of deep social, political and cultural changes, a scholar of Israeli extremist groups argues.
The Palestinian militant group has said it accepts some of President Trump’s proposed peace plan – but will it go all the way?
Hamas and the Israeli far right may pose the main challenge to the latest proposals to end the conflict in Gaza.
More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since fighting resumed following a weekslong ceasefire.
America and Iran are now just as much a part of the decadeslong conflict as Arab states. Is it time to start referring to the ‘MENA-ISRAME’ conflict?
A changing world order and global battles for power will derail the quest for peace in Gaza and the Middle East.
A famous gesture kick-started hopes of peace in the Middle East. But today, the idea of a two-state solution seems further away than ever before.
Detente between Tehran and Riyadh will not magically solve all the political and sectarian tensions in the Middle East.
Breaking History reads like a dutiful student’s account of ‘what I did on my summer holidays’. But Kushner provides useful insights into the Washington and Middle Eastern policy-making processes.
Nothing seems to have brought a lasting peace to Palestinians and Israelis. Two Middle East scholars suggest approaches different from what has been tried before.
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Visiting Scholar of Global Affairs, Northwestern University
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Associate professor, American University School of International Service
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Lecturer in Political Science, American University School of International Service
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
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Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor of International and Diplomacy Studies, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa
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Henry J. Leir Professor of Practice in Economics of the Middle East, Brandeis University
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Professor of History and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Director of Dickinson Program in New Zealand & Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Otago, Dickinson College