... in northern Galilee. The most internationally significant attacks by the Yemeni Houthis against commercial vessels in the Red Sea were massive indeed, but these attacks could not directly affect the course of Operation Iron Swords.
Consequences for Palestine and Israel
If anyone expected that the escalation with Israel would somehow contribute to the consolidation of the Palestinian society, they should be disappointed. Divisions within Palestine persist along many lines: Hamas and Fatah, radicals and technocrats,...
... escalation, with some governments blaming the terrorist sortie of the Qassam Brigades militants from Hamas’ Al-Aqsa Flood (known as Toofan in Arabic) on October 7, 2023, while others—the abnormal situation of the decades-long occupation and blockade of Palestine by Israel,
mentioned
by UN Secretary General A. Guterres in October 2023. Yet they are all united in extremely negative
assessments
of the humanitarian consequences of the Iron Swords operation by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The final document ...
... 1947. On January 25, 2024, the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague issued a ruling requiring Israel to cease acts “falling under the genocide convention” and announced precautionary measures to protect the Palestinian population.
U.S.-Israel-Palestine
Almost all of the American presidents have paid some heed to the Palestinian problem in their Middle East policy, claiming its central role in the peace process. Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama were particularly active. In the meantime,...
... September 2023. The maritime and aerial blockade eased up, commercial activities at Yemeni ports picked up pace, and air service with Sanaa was partially restored.
However, the situation had drastically changed by the end of the year. The longstanding Israeli-Palestinian confl ict re-emerged on the regional and global agenda and became the focal point of all regional conflicts in a matter of days. This fact shouldn’t have come as a surprise to analysts, because the conditions for this have always ...
... RAS), the 2nd meeting of the section “The Long 20th Century in the History of Arab Countries” was held. The section was attended by Ivan Bocharov, Program Coordinator at the RIAC. He made a report on Egypt’s mediation efforts in resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
The moderator of the discussion was Grigory Lukyanov, Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the IOS RAS.
Pugwash expresses its deepest concern at the unprecedented levels of violence in the bloody confrontation between Hamas and Israel and between Israel and Palestine.
The attacks against the civil population in Israel, in Gaza and in the West Bank—with approximately 13000-14000 victims, and approximately 5000 of them children—underscore the unacceptable brutality in the current fight, and bring to the ...
The new round of the Palestine-Israel conflict is a deja vue for the people and elites in the Middle East, not only for the level of hatred and bloodshed that the region is witnessing but also for the possible coming not-very-distant future consequences in the Middle East. History ...
... the streets are relevant with the internal stabilities of these countries. People across the world, whether West or non-West, are well aware of the justice deficit in the issue as recent demonstrations took place in cities across the world.
The recent Palestine-Israel conflict has attracted global attention, but that does not necessarily collect the efforts of the world for the solution of the problem. Only when the world brings back the issue to the core of regional agendas, will sufficient attention be put ...
... provided there are no preconditions. And at that time the Palestinians were very much upset with the settlement activities of Israel, which were expanding and some Palestinian homes on the its territory were destroyed and families thrown out, so the Palestinian ... ... worries our Egyptian and Jordanian friends. And this would of course ruin all the resolutions of the Security Council that Gaza is Palestine, together with the West Bank.
Question:
An international pariah, that is what some have called, in the face of sanctions,...
In principle, wars complement politics, but in Israel wars absolutely remain the norm and politics are the anomalies. The source of the contradictions remains Israel's fundamental and radical alienation from the Arab environment upon which it was imposed. It cannot maintain its security except by ...
