How Israel Can Solve Its Gaza ProblemKuperwasser, YossiMiddle East Quarterly
The ceasefire got off to a rocky start when its implementation was delayed several hours over Hamas' initial failure to provide Israel with a list of hostages to be released. The ceasefire came into force after Israel confirmed receipt of this list....
“Mowing the grass” embodies more than just strategic fatalism; it also reflects a large measure of hubris. At its core lies the assumption that Israel can control the rheostat in Gaza, hitting Hamas just hard enough to deter it from attacking Israel but not so hard that Gaza impl...
Israel flag with stock market finance, economy trend graph digital technology. (photo credit: SHUTTERSTOCK) The ceasefire agreement betweenIsrael and Hamascould reduce risks to the economy and public finances if it is adhered to and more progress is made, Big Three credit rating agencies Moody’s...
It is also important to note that Hamas’ strongest opportunity to regain influence lies in Israel’s lack of a clear postwar strategy for Gaza. That gap has been shaped by the politics of Netanyahu’s coalition, some of whom oppose any form of Palestinian governance in Gaza. But without al...
Three days later the police repeated the operation as the violence escalated further. Later that day the first of the Hamas rockets were fired from Gaza. Israel’s problem in Gaza is that it cannot prevent the rockets being fired without a military ground force intervention. However, the last...
“This is the system that Israelis have: Inhuman. Unfair. No due process,” he said. In the Oct. 7 attack, thousands of Palestinianscrossed the border from Gazainto Israel, breaking down the country’s defenses and rampaging through sleepy communities. They kill...
Colombia will accept deportees from the US in a bid to avoid tariffs from the Trump administration. Will this become a new model of diplomacy? Then: a ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel is extended. Plus: haute-couture… 27 Jan 2025 Davos reflections and Trump’s speech The Briefing is ...
(TRT) on the anniversary of the attack, many Palestinian and Middle Eastern scholars believe that what made this Hamas attack unique was its direct assault on Israeli soil. Some have even compared it to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, marking the first time since then that Israel was attacked so ...
Israel’s Iron Dome system has been in the headlines often since the country began its military offensive in Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas attacks inside Israel that sparked the current hostilities in the region. The Iron Dome is the bottom layer of Israel’s missile defense, accor...