US President Joe Biden’s recent warning to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has limited Israel’s options in Gaza. And neither of Israel’s war objectives appear to have been met.
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The contours of the Middle East conflict have long influenced Israel’s migrant worker policy.
The prisoner-hostage exchanges mean a huge amount to both sides of the conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably feels he has no choice, from a political perspective, but to continue prosecuting the war in the same manner.
Netanyahu has rejected the latest peace deal and vowed to continue until Israel achieves ‘total victory’.
A scholar of Israeli politics explains why Israelis are increasingly turning against Netanyahu and his promise that Israel can quickly defeat Hamas and bring Israeli hostages home.
The mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages by the Israeli Defense Forces at the weekend has substantially increased pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire.
A selection of analysis from our coverage of the war in Gaza over the past fortnight.
Proportionality requires that lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict must be treated with the same degree of respect.
Despite mounting public anger, the veteran leader has proven time and again that it is not wise to bet against him.
People talk about genocide in a few different ways, ranging from technical to colloquial – but a war of words does not replace a path to peace, a genocide scholar writes.
The Israeli hostages in Gaza are living a nightmare. They’re likely to remain displaced, under duress and will be the human shields of this war.
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Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
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Professor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, UCL
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Doctoral Candidate in Global and Area Studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
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Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
