Episodios

  • Is Syria the Middle East’s next exploding powder keg

    Is Syria the Middle East’s next exploding powder keg
    May 12 2025
    Syria could be the Middle East’s next exploding powder keg.
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    14 m
  • US-Houthi truce triggers pro-Israel alarm bells

    US-Houthi truce triggers pro-Israel alarm bells
    May 9 2025
    Alarm bells went off in Jerusalem and pro-Israel circles in Washington when US President Donald J. Trump this week announced a truce in America’s Red Sea tanker war with Yemen’s Houthi rebels that failed to take Israeli interests into account. Mr. Trump’s announcement of a deal that protects US assets and international shipping but leaves space for continued Houthi targeting of Israel suggested that the president and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu differed on multiple issues, including Yemen, Gaza, and Iran.
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    10 m
  • Separately, Trump and Hamas let the cat out of the bag

    Separately, Trump and Hamas let the cat out of the bag
    May 8 2025
    US President Donald J. Trump and Hamas have separately opened a Pandora’s Box that could fuel Middle Eastern fires for years to come. Hamas did so when it unleashed Israel’s assault on Gaza with its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians. With more than 50,000 dead and tens of thousands wounded and/or maimed for life, Palestinians have paid a stark price. Israel’s assault has devastated the Strip and opened the door to Israeli reoccupation 20 years after the Jewish state withdrew its forces from the territory. Mr. Trump played his part when he called in February during Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s first visit to Washington this year for resettling Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians elsewhere and turning the Strip into a high-end luxury real estate development. In doing so, Mr. Trump allowed Israel to adopt a plan long envisioned by ultra-nationalists but not the general public as its official policy. Now, the Pandora’s Box could come home to haunt Mr. Trump as he prepares to visit the Gulf next week.
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    11 m
  • US-European culture war puts Israel in a bind

    US-European culture war puts Israel in a bind
    May 5 2025
    Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s embrace of the global far-right faces a difficult choice. The question for Mr. Netanyahu is whether to maintain Israel’s boycott of Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), the country’s second-largest political party, and Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) amid an escalating feud between the Trump administration and Germany over attitudes toward the far right.
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    11 m
  • Is Algeria Next

    Is Algeria Next
    May 2 2025
    Algeria may be the latest target in efforts to garner further Arab recognition of the Jewish state, despite its Gaza war conduct and rejection of Palestinian national aspirations. To that end, a Philadelphia-based far-right pro-Israeli organisation, the Middle East Forum, has put Algeria in its crosshairs in an apparent attempt to build pressure on the North African state to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Algeria would be a prize catch.
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    10 m
  • Netanyahu hardens his position despite pressure to lift the Gaza blockade

    Netanyahu hardens his position despite pressure to lift the Gaza blockade
    Apr 30 2025
    Netanyahu hardens his position despite pressure to lift the Gaza blockade by James M. Dorsey
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    9 m
  • Crunch time may be approaching for Netanyahu

    Crunch time may be approaching for Netanyahu
    Apr 26 2025
    The coming days will tell whether it’s crunch time for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. The litmus test will be whether US President Donald J. Trump forces Mr. Netanyahu to lift his almost two-months-long blocking of the flow of humanitarian aid into war-ravaged Gaza.
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    10 m
  • Netanyahu’s allies turn Jews into potential scapegoats

    Netanyahu’s allies turn Jews into potential scapegoats
    Apr 25 2025
    Betar, the far-right youth movement of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, is happy to help US President Donald J. Trump curtail pro-Palestinian speech and academic freedoms. That has mainstream American Jews fear that the Trump administration’s crackdown on democratic freedoms of speech, assembly, and academia will fuel anti-Semitism rather than enhance their security.
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    22 m
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