Recently, many right-wing Israeli officials have proposed various bills that would lead Israel to annexing most of the West Bank, including what some officials ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent visit to Oman was the latest indication of growing ties between Israel and the Arab states, but relations between Jer...
Like previous actions undertaken by the Trump administration, the State Department’s recent decision to merge the U.S. Consulate General into the American Embas...
With President Mahmoud Abbas at the age of 82 and reportedly in poor health, the Palestinian Authority may be in need of a new leader in the near future. H...
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has frequently been compared to the Northern Ireland dispute and many have referenced its resolution in the Good Friday Agreeme...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) af...
In February, I wrote about the role competitive victimhood (the desire by conflicting groups to demonstrate greater suffering than their adversary) plays in the...
A year ago, I argued that Israel should support an independent Kurdistan. Since then, several developments emerged which will have implications for Israeli-Kurd...
Dany Bahar and Natan Sachs’ recent assessment of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement (BDS) and its its impact (or lack thereof) on Israel’s economy reve...
On December 20 2017, Saudi King Salman recieved Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the second time in less than two months. However, unlike the first meeti...
Jonah Naghi is a graduate from Clark University's Psychology and Middle Eastern Studies departments. He regularly contributes to his Times of Israel blog and has spent extensive time in the region.
