Arab Israeli conflict

False saints and real demons: The story of the Middle East - opinion

For more than 70 years, the narrative of the Arab-Israeli conflict has been cemented as the ultimate symbol of historical grievance – a renewable pretext for a multitude of domestic failures.

A woman holds a placard in front of police officers outside Downing Street, as people attend a pro-Palestinian protest, featuring the banging of pots and pans to honour the Palestinians shot while queuing for food in Gaza, in London, Britain, July 25, 2025.
 Former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar looks on at an anti-Israel rally, in Gaza City, in 2022.

Veteran Arab affairs commentator Ehud Yaari reveals he had indirect contact with Yahya Sinwar

 A NEW REPORT by NGO Regavim analyzes the UN database which documents violent incidents in Judea and Samaria. Here, a Palestinian man looks towad Israeli flags placed over a Palestinian house after an incident with Israeli settlers in Bruqin village near Salfit, in the West Bank last month.

Fact, fiction, or both: A closer look at settler violence in the West Bank

THE SANCTIONS imposed on Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (right) and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir are galling, and the accusation of ‘settler violence’ is false, the writer argues.

How the West distorts Israel's reality with false narratives of settler violence - opinion


Two-state solution support hits all-time low as Israeli trust collapses – Pew poll

Only 21% of Israelis believe peaceful coexistence with a Palestinian state is possible; distrust and status of Jerusalem cited as top obstacles.

 Israeli and Palestinian flags side by side. (illustration).

The 'fig leaf' that hid Arab regime failures and seriously harmed the Palestinian cause - opinion

Post-1948, Arab regimes weaponized the Palestinian cause. Lacking organic legitimacy, they turned anti-Israel hostility into a survival mechanism.

 Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, sits in the General Assembly. The State of Palestine is recognized by more than 130 countries, but not by most of the countries of the OECD.

Trump’s Middle East tour poses a strategic opportunity for Israel - opinion

Trump’s Gulf tour seemed to sideline Israel, raising alarm. But he’s daring Israel to lead—and will back it if it does.

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump holds a soccer ball as he attends an event with Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, also with the participation of FIFA president Gianni Infantino (not pictured), in Lusail, Qatar, on Wednesday. More than any other country, Israel was hit this week by Trumpian whiplash,

'Ghosts of a Holy War': Forgotten 1929 Hebron Massacre Resurfaces Amid Echoes of October 7

A century-old tragedy is resurfacing with painful relevance.

 Yardena Schwartz, award-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated producer speaks in the latest episode of IsraelCast, Jewish National Fund-USA’s flagship podcast

'Gaza is Palestinian; not Israeli,' former Israeli PM Olmert says

'We believe that peace is possible, and the time to act is now,' stated the organizers.

 People’s Peace Summit in Jerusalem, May, 2025.

A strategy for fostering diversity within a unified Israeli society- opinion

Israel’s deepening divides call for a new model of unity through diversity, with dialogue and mutual responsibility crucial to preventing future conflict.

A joint prayer session was held in Gush Etzion, after the Duma arson attack

52 deaths in 3 months: Gov't must fight bloodshed in Israeli Arab society - opinion

The bloodshed in Arab society must end. This requires responsible and courageous leadership. A broad government initiative is needed.

 CARRYING THE coffins of two of the five men murdered the day before in Yafa an-Naseriyye, June 9.

What's the difference between Yemen and the Houthis? - analysis

Iran carefully crafted a strategy that warned its loyalist militias to refrain from acting as recognized states on the international stage. 

 Newly recruited fighters who joined a Houthi military force intended to be sent to fight in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, march during a parade in Sanaa, Yemen December 2, 2023.

'Israel bragging about conquering the Syrian Hermon damages cooperation,' Arab diplomat warns

Israel’s presence on the mountain followed its recent takeover of the Syrian side to expand the demilitarized buffer zone along the Israeli-Syrian border.

 IDF soldiers operate on Mount Hermon, on the border between Israel and Syria, December 12, 2024

‘A human and a Muslim obligation to denounce Hamas’ - interview

“For me, the State of Israel is everything: its well being is my well being, and its challenges are my challenges,” says Nael Zoabi, a Muslim Arab Israeli educator and advocate.

 Nael Zoabi, a Muslim Arab-Israeli educator, activist and advocate

MKs to tour east Jerusalem schools, push Palestinian to Israeli curriculum shift

Several Knesset members are expected to tour multiple schools in east Jerusalem as part of a government program working to transition students from Palestinian to Israeli curricula.

A general view of Jerusalem shows the Dome of the Rock, located in Jerusalem's Old City on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount December 6, 2017.