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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas listens during a UN Security Council meeting. Photo: Luiz Rampelotto/ Europa Newswire

Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, United Kingdom, World

Kushner piques Palestinian interest with confederation plan

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim September 5, 2018February 18, 2020

The guided-missile destroyer USS Mason patrols the Red Sea with two Cyclone-class patrol craft in 2016. Photo: AFP/ US Navy

China, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Middle East

Israel sees risks, opportunities in Bab el-Mandeb

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim August 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Israelis attend a rally in Tel Aviv on July 22 to protest over a new surrogacy law that does not include gay couples. It came after parliament approved surrogacy for single women or those unable to bear children, without granting such a right to same-sex couples or single men. Photo: AFP / Jack Guez

AT Finance, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Syria, Thailand, World

Beautiful and ugly, which is the real Israel?

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim July 25, 2018February 18, 2020

Palestinian protesters burn tyres during a weekly demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, on July 6, 2018. Photo: AFP/ Jaafar Ashtiyeh

Israel, Jordan, Middle East

Ruling on Bedouin village could split the West Bank

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim July 9, 2018February 18, 2020

On April 22, 2004, Former Israeli energy minister Gonen Segev (C) appeared at the Tel Aviv district tribunal after being arrested for drug trafficking. He has now been charged with spying for Iran. Photo: AFP/Yariv Hatz

China, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Russia, World

Former Israeli minister arrested for allegedly spying for Iran

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim June 21, 2018February 18, 2020

Palestinian protesters flee incoming tear gas canisters during clashes along the border with Israel in the southern Gaza strip on June 1, 2018. Photo: AFP/Said Khatib

Egypt, Israel, Middle East

Israel finds victory in Hamas, Islamic Jihad ceasefire

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim June 2, 2018February 18, 2020

Palestinians run for cover from tear gas during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Jabalia on May 14, 2018, as Palestinians protest over the inauguration of the US embassy following its controversial move to Jerusalem. Photo: AFP/ Mohammed Abed

Egypt, Israel, Middle East, World

Domestic interests of Hamas are behind huge death toll in Gaza

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim May 17, 2018February 18, 2020

Lebanese soldiers inspect remains of a surface to air missile that landed in the Lebanese village of Hebarieh, early on May 10, 2018. Photo: AF/Ali Dia

Iran, Israel, Middle East, Russia, Syria, United Kingdom, World

Netanyahu in Moscow: Israel, Russia cooperation grows

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim May 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Members of Palestinian Hamas security forces carry a coffin containing the body of Palestinian engineering lecturer Fadi al-Batsh, who was shot dead in Malaysia, in the southern Gaza Strip April 26, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

AT Finance, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Israel, Malaysia, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, World

Why Mossad assassinated an electrical engineer in Malaysia

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim April 28, 2018February 18, 2020

Demonstrators throw rocks with slingshots and burn tires at the border with Israel on April 11. PHOTO: AFP/Hassan Jedi/Anadolu Agency

European Union, Israel, Middle East, World

The Gaza demonstrations will achieve nothing. Here is why

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim April 12, 2018February 18, 2020

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. Photo: AFP

China, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, World

Potential Saudi nuclear plants test limits of Israeli ties

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim March 30, 2018February 18, 2020

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and then Israeli Prime minister Ehud Olmert attend Bastille Day celebrations in Paris on July 14, 2008. Photo: AFP / ERIC Feferberg

Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Middle East, Syria, World

How Israel’s nuclear hegemony serves regional stability

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim March 22, 2018February 18, 2020

The cases are mounting against Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Creative Comments via Flickr.

India, Israel, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, World

Netanyahu masters politics but can he best the legal system?

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim March 14, 2018February 18, 2020

UN soldiers look out on a post at Mount Avital, in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights near the Israeli-Syrian border on February 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad

Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Israel repeats past mistakes as it creates buffer zone in Syria

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim March 3, 2018February 18, 2020

Israeli security forces walk next to the remains of an F-16 Israeli war plane near the Israeli village of Harduf, Israel on February 10, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Herzie Shapira

Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Downing of fighter jet damages Israel’s strategic position

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim February 11, 2018February 18, 2020

Israeli F-16s perform an exhibition exercise during an Independence Day show on April 06, 2014, in Netanya, Israel. Photo: iStock

Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, Russia, Syria, World

Air strikes in Sinai underscore Israel’s tightening alliance with Arab states

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim February 5, 2018

Palestinian demonstrators shout slogans as they hold crossed-out posters depicting US Vice-President Mike Pence and US President Donald Trump during a protest against Pence's visit to Israel, in the West Bank city of Nablus on January 22, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Abed Omar Qusini

AT Finance, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Syria, Vietnam, World

Trump’s bullying of the Palestinians has long precedence

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim January 29, 2018

Buildings are seen under construction in the Israeli settlement of Beitar Ilit, in the occupied West Bank. File photo: Reuters / Baz Ratner

China, European Union, India, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Russia, South Asia, World

There will be no one-state solution in Israel-Palestine

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim January 15, 2018February 18, 2020

Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi enters a military courtroom escorted by Israeli Prison Service personnel at Ofer Prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 28, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad

Germany, Israel, Middle East, World

Israel’s diplomacy snatches defeat from the jaws of victory

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim January 2, 2018February 18, 2020

Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad

Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Middle East, Syria

Why Trump’s statement has not led to violence in Jerusalem

by Shaiel Ben-Ephraim December 19, 2017