Syria and IS may have dominated the news this year, but the Middle East has plenty of other problems on its hands.
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Mein Kampf will be reprinted in Germany next year – and it could have a surprisingly positive effect.
A growing field of policy analysis now focuses on reducing armed violence. Remarkable consensus has emerged at high policy levels around the basic elements of an approach to reduce violence.
Twenty years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin – the man who ushered in the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians – was assassinated. Today’s Israel is a very different place.
Laden with animals, conspiracy theories and apocalyptic visions, Muhammad Fanatil al-Hajaya’s poetry reflects how many Arabs – urban and rural, rich and poor – view the world.
As Israel marked the 20th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, fears of another surge in violence were as high as ever.
The Israeli PM’s ‘big lie’ about Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was of a piece with Netanyahu’s history of making false and misleading claims.
The Israeli prime minister’s comments that an Arab leader convinced Hitler to carry out the Holocaust are a distortion of history.
With its ever harsher measures against Palestinian protests, Israel is blowing past all acceptable standards.
Violence has become a daily occurrence in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank and the body count is rising.
In a grim week at the UN General Assembly, the key partners in the Middle East peace process made it clear they’ve lost patience.
Israel’s extreme response to Palestinian protests is simply prolonging the cycle of violence.
Journalists can go where diplomats can’t: but that doesn’t make it easy.
A group of American airmen broke US laws and evaded the FBI to support the nascent country of Israel in 1948. We should consider them heroes. Jonathan Pollard – not so much.
Although Hamas also wants a return to normalcy in the Gaza Strip, it is potentially a double-edged sword for the movement.
Israeli employers have always had a complicated relationship with Palestinian workers – and it’s getting worse.
All too often, the debate around the BDS movement is lost in a cacophony of anti-Semitism accusations and the focus shifts to Western institutions instead of Palestinian rights.
A new generation of emigrants from Israel to Australia is reversing the Zionist narrative. They have a distinctly different view of the Israeli state from that of older Australian Jewish migrants.
Australian governments and Australian Jews have consistently supported Israel since its founding. That has begun to change at both the political level and the community level.
By legalising the controversial measure, even practices at Guantanamo might soon be able to come in from the cold.
Top contributors
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer, Royal Holloway University of London
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London
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Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Lecturer in Peace and Reconciliation, University of Aberdeen
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Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
