Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks during a meeting with the Russian president at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 14, 2018.
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Saudi Arabia portrays itself as a leading supporter of humanitarian aid, especially to the Palestinians, but the country’s leadership has an ambivalent strategy towards the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Nikki Haley, the United States’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has announced the US will withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council.
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The UN human rights council can certainly be improved, but the worst way to do that is by walking away.
The Bedouin community of Al Khan Al Ahmar.
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The world needs to put urgent pressure on Israel – and make the case to save a community.
Palestinian protesters run for cover from Israeli teargas in May.
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The UN’s Responsibility to Protect framework for safeguarding civilians against atrocities could help resolve the Gaza crisis.
EPA/Mohammed Saber
Palestinian nonviolent protests and mass movement of resistance is one of Israel’s biggest fears.
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A new bill proposes to ban reporters and civilians alike from photographing or videoing Israeli troops.
Throughout its storied history, the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team has won 13 state titles.
AP Photo/Ariel Schalit
Beitar Jerusalem has always attracted the outsiders, the oppressed and the victimized – Israel’s ‘forgotten Jews.’
Palestinian protesters run from Israeli tear gas during the Gaza protests last week.
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The international condemnation of Israel’s violent response to the Gaza protests shows how misplaced its “Brand Israel” campaign has been.
Too close for comfort?
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The last thing the Middle East needs is another open conflict between two massive military powers. Fortunately, they both seem to agree.
Israeli military personnel practicing their response to a chemical weapons attack.
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A decades-long policy of ambiguity means that Israel’s chemical arsenal remains the subject of speculation.
Israeli forces fire tear gas at protesters from Gaza.
EPA/Atef Safadi
Thanks to a violent fringe of protesters backed by Hamas, a far larger non-violent movement is struggling to control the narrative of what’s happening in Gaza.
Israeli fire on Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border on Monday resulted in at least 58 deaths.
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With its opening of a new embassy in Jerusalem and defence of Israeli actions in Gaza, the Trump administration has signalled its lack of interest in bringing lasting peace to the region.
Palestinian protesters evacuate a wounded youth in the Gaza Strip.
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What does this move represent? It depends on who you ask, according to scholars in this roundup of articles from our archives.
Iranian protestors burn a representation of a U.S. flag during a gathering after their Friday prayer in Tehran, Friday, May 11, 2018. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets in cities across the country to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the nuclear deal with world powers.
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President Donald Trump’s move to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal has been met with dismay by the Europeans. But could his high-stakes gambit actually work in getting a better deal?
The Israeli army launches tear gas at protesters on the border with Gaza.
EPA/Luca Piergiovanni
International NGOs are promoting a ‘resilience agenda’ that masks their own failings in Palestine.
EPA/Atef Safadi
A recent skirmish between Iran and Israel put the spotlight back on one of the most sensitive territories in the world.
An interactive documentary maps the lives of Palestinians in a Jerusalem neighbourhood.
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A documentary filmmaker discusses her work which looks at the erased history of Palestinians in a Jerusalem neighbourhood in order to point to the possibility of a shared Jewish/Arab future.
EPA/Abir Sultan
Hugely divisive and controversial at home, Avigdor Lieberman is both an outspoken hawk and a political opportunist.
This photo, provided May 10, 2018, by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Israeli missiles in the sky as others hit air defence positions and other military bases in Damascus, Syria.
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Flashy interceptor systems attract media and government attention. But bomb shelters and warning systems are at least as important in the midst of missile strikes.
He said he’d do it, and he has.
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Iran is a dangerous mischief-maker in the Middle East – but scrapping the nuclear deal will probably make things worse.