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U.S. President Donald Trump and the late Emir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah of Kuwait, September 7, 2017 (Official White House Photo/Stephanie K. Chasez)

Expanding the Abraham Accords is a pipe dream. Except, maybe, in Kuwait

Stripped of its institutional buffers, reorienting toward the UAE, and repeatedly targeted by Iran, Kuwait could be next to join the framework.

By Mira Al Hussein June 3, 2026

Defense Secretary James N. Mattis meets with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., Mar. 22, 2018. (Kathryn E. Holm / U.S. Secretary of Defense / CC BY 2.0)

Why Saudi-Israel ‘peace’ will cement a violent future

Far from resolving conflicts, Saudi-Israel normalization will serve as a pillar of a repressive architecture that brings no justice for Palestinians or Arab peoples.

By Dana El Kurd August 8, 2023

Anya-Nya recruits in southern Sudan learning how to use Bren guns provided by Israel, 1970. (Photographer unknown, Archivo Comboniani Roma)

Not a new dawn: Why the Israel-Sudan deal was a long time coming

With U.S. backing, Israel has long bribed Khartoum into cooperating on regional policy. Normalization is the latest stage in that history.

By Yotam Gidron October 30, 2020

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Israeli nuclear disarmament activist Sharon Dolev speaking at the United Nations. (Clare Conboy)

‘We will establish a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East’

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Noble Peace Prize this year. Founder of the Israeli Disarmament Movement, one of hundreds of organizations that comprise the campaign, speaks about why nobody in Israel is talking about the prize, and what it will take to achieve disarmament in Israel and beyond. [Editor’s note: The…

By Yali Marom December 25, 2017

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, West Bank, on July 23, 2014, before the two sat down for a discussion about a cease-fire in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip (photo: U.S. State Department)

The time is ripe for a UN resolution on Gaza

With a ceasefire now in effect between Israel and Hamas, diplomacy can begin to take root. By Lolita Brayman A 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas seems to be shakily holding, with a lull in rocket attacks and the deployment of the Israeli military to positions outside of Gaza. The IDF spokesperson officially announced…

By +972 Magazine August 6, 2014

Yedioth Aharonoth 10 October: Netanyahu strives to satisfy the right wing of his coalition

Between the Lines (Oct 10): Loyalty law expected to pass

The Headlines: Jews and non-Jews > The government is likely to approve today a proposed bill, which will require all new non-Jewish citizens to declare their loyalty to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic” state. Ha’aretz [Heb] and Yedioth focus their criticism today on Ehud Barak, leader of the Labor party, who supports the law…

By Roi Maor October 10, 2010