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Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert breaks ranks, declaring Netanyahu’s war has no endgame and no moral compass. From failed ...

Netanyahu has so far prolonged the war to remain in power. Now as another party leaves his coalition government, he is ...

In place of a coherent strategy or vision, Trump’s approach to the Middle East is driven by dramatic gestures, symbolic ...

When Netanyahu visited DC last week, there was talk of peace and normalization with the new Sharaa regime; with the Sweida fighting and the IDF's attacks, the optimism is over but the door isn't ...

While analysts debate strategy and outcomes of negotiations between Hamas and Israel in Doha, the people of Gaza remain in a ...

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The “humanitarian city” proposed by Israel’s defence minister to be built on the ruins of Rafah would in effect be a concentration camp, and forcing Palestinians into it would amount to ethnic ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government suffered a serious blow on Tuesday when an ultra-Orthodox party announced it was bolting the coalition. While this doesn’t immediately threaten ...

Whether by design or necessity, the breakdown in diplomacy was quickly followed by a sharp escalation on the ground. The intensified IDF actions in Gaza over the weekend can be seen as the ...

The war in Gaza has unfolded in real time, pixel by pixel, on the world's screens - and with it, a catalogue of suffering so vast it defies human comprehension. Nearly two years since it began, ...

In 1985, Sinwar’s mentor and Hamas’s founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, found his freedom the same way: Israel traded him and 1,150 other security prisoners for three captured IDF soldiers.Jerusalem’s ...