Ka-ching! The sound most countries heard when news of the nuclear deal with Iran broke.
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Most countries welcomed the deal as they jockey to boost trade with the Islamic Republic and gain from the eventual end of sanctions.
Increased oil and gas revenues amid lifted sanctions are set to raise Iran’s economic fortunes, which ease Middle Eastern tensions.
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Opponents of the Iran nuclear deal say it raises the nuclear weapons threat in the region. But Middle East tensions are actually likely to ease as Iran grows richer without being shackled by sanctions.
Politics in progress.
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Another UN human rights report has been released about Israel and the human rights abuses it perpetrates in the Occupied Territories – yet another report that highlights ongoing violations of international…
The end of privacy?
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Israel is suspected of spying on Iran’s nuclear talks using a virus to hack the devices that are all around us.
BDS protesters on the West Bank in May 2015.
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Israel’s prime minister is using boycott fears to distract attention from his government’s increasingly right-wing agenda.
“You’re offside Sepp.”
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Palestine is spearheading an international effort to get Israel booted out of FIFA – but the organisation just wants to stay out of politics.
President Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in January 2015.
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Hype over the absence of the Saudi king at US-Gulf Cooperation Council summit obscures the real issues facing the US and its Arab allies.
Tough call: Benjamin Netanyahu and Naftali Bennett.
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Benjamin Netanyahu has kept his government going by doing a deal with a party even more right-wing than his former allies. There could be trouble ahead.
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We are used to thinking of Gaza as a war-torn stretch of ground. A place where life goes grimly on in the face of an intractable conflict. A graveyard not only for civilians caught in the crossfire, but…
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas signs ICC Rome Statute last December.
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With the peace process derailed and the incoming Netanyahu administration promising zero tolerance to Palestine, joining the ICC sets a major cat among the pigeons.
‘Now I’m gladhanding you in droves’.
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A startling election victory has delivered the Likud leader with a range of options and left the opposition in disarray.
‘Don’t look at him, François.’
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The EU’s millions in aid to Palestinian territories has come to very little – and Netanyahu’s re-election demands a new approach.
By bringing together Arab political parties in the Joint List, Ayman Odeh has emerged as leader of the third-largest party in Israel.
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The emergence of the Joint List as the third-largest party is evidence of both Israeli democracy and a growing awareness among the nation’s Arab citizens of their power to influence its direction.
Damage control: Netanyahu interviewed for NBC.
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Israel’s triumphant prime minister has always made a habit of testing alliances to breaking point. Has he gone too far this time?
A Rabbi contemplates the desecration of hundreds of Jewish graves in France, where one of the youths arrested denied anti-Semitism was their motive.
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Legal artifice is being constructed to make false distinctions between unpalatable anti-Semitism and kosher anti-Zionism.
A good night for Netanyahu.
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Our two scholars look at the longer term consequences of this week’s elections: in Israel and in the US.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rival and Isaac Herzog are pictured together as billboards rotate.
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Today’s elections in Israel could be one of the most significant in the country’s recent history.
Could Israel’s second-longest serving PM be staring at defeat?
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If Israel’s right-wing government hadn’t tried to shut Arab parties out of the Knesset, it might be doing better in the election now.
Will he still be prime minister of Israel at the end of the week?
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Why the 2015 Israeli elections are witness to big shifts in how minorities vote and why that’s bad news for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Brooklyn, NY: What do they think about Israel?
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On the eve of elections in Israel, a snapshot of the divisions in American Jewish opinion toward the Jewish state and what lies behind them.