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Items by Dr Adnan Abu Amer
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Israel is worried that the Jordan border could be a conduit for arms smuggling
Israel is going to build another fence, this time along the border with Jordan. Until it is completed, there will be reports about arms smuggling across the border into the occupied West Bank. The occupation security forces are trying to stop the smuggling, while illegal settlers complain that they...
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Thirty years down the line from Oslo, opinions are still divided in Israel
The 30th anniversary of the Oslo Accords, agreements signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation in September 1993, comes at a time when Israelis are still preoccupied with details of the deals, and what happened behind the scenes, as well as the motives that led their then Prime...
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Israel is worried about resistance attacks, which strike fear and panic among settlers
Israeli political, security and military officials are claiming that this is the “most difficult” year for the occupation state since 2005 in light of the outbreak of resistance attacks targeting occupation soldiers and illegal settlers. Since the beginning of this year, 36 Israelis have been killed and more than...
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Israel is failing militarily and politically as Palestinian resistance escalates
Israeli political and security officials are furious over the escalation of resistance operations following the Hebron and Huwara attacks in the occupied West Bank. This has prompted senior army and security officers to admit that they have failed to control the unprecedented wave of such attacks. The Hebron attack...
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Settlers: a double war against Israelis and Palestinians
The Israeli General Security Agency, Shin Bet, has recently issued a document in which it accuses Jewish settlers of carrying out terrorist attacks against the Palestinians, leading to an increase in resistance against the occupation. This document has angered many members in the ruling extreme right-wing coalition. Members of...
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A loss of trust and competence sounds the alarm for the IDF
As protests continue against the judicial overhaul proposed by the Israeli government, the leadership of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) fears an increase of discontent within its ranks as well as an increase in its lack of competence. The signs get worse every day, prompting army commanders to warn...
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Why are Israel and Saudi Arabia heading for normalisation, and what might stop it?
Despite US efforts to get Saudi Arabia and Israel to normalise their relations, the process keeps faltering. Israeli officials speak of a long and important list of demands made by the Kingdom to the Americans. Although a normalisation agreement with Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Muslim world...
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The pros and cons of Israel recognising Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara
Following the Israeli recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara, Israeli voices are still raising more questions about the feasibility of this step, and whether it will be beneficial, or if it will be followed by greater harm, especially since such a step may face criticism on the...
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Israel-Lebanon tension may trigger the ‘third’ Lebanon war
Security tension continues to increase along the Lebanese-Israeli border, with the level of provocations increasing with every passing day, in light of Israeli expectations that Hezbollah wants to preserve its image as a fighting organisation and maintain the image of “Israeli weakness”. This opens the door to more questions...
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Israel had numerous military failures in Jenin
Apart from the reasons that prompted the Israeli army to carry out its military operation in Jenin, dubbed ‘Operation Home and Garden’, the fact that Israeli forces withdrew from the camp without achieving the goals they had set out raises many questions about who made real achievements in this...
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Israel deals in death and destruction by exporting arms to the world
Israel has recently signed the largest arms deal in its history with Germany, worth a staggering €4 billion. The occupation state will provide Germany, which is concerned about getting involved in the Russia-Ukraine war, with Hetz 3 systems to defend itself against Russian ballistic missiles. The deal sheds some...
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Israel is targeting Palestinian Christians
Israel continues its policy of Judaising the occupied city of Jerusalem where it targets Islamic and Christian holy sites. It is trying to change the historical mark of Jerusalem as a multicultural city that is sacred to all three religions and to turn it into a city with an...
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Mystery surrounds the death of a Mossad agent in Italy
More details are unfolding following the killing of an Israeli officer when a boat capsized and sank off Italy’s coast in late May. There is more certainty that Israeli and Italian intelligence officers on the boat had taken part in an operation that aimed at preventing hostile Iranian members...
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The latest border attack puts Egypt on the list of risks to Israel
Details of Israel’s investigations into the attack by an Egyptian border policeman at Al-Awja a week ago are still emerging. Mohammed Salah crossed the border and killed three Israeli soldiers before being killed himself. Regardless of the details, though, the incident carries political and security consequences for Israel-Egypt relations....
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Israel is sending strong, unclear messages on all fronts
Israeli political and security officials have launched a simultaneous media attack on Iran. This attack was taken seriously, taking place only days after military manoeuvres by Hezbollah, which simulated kidnapping soldiers and storming settlements. The media attack may pave the way for a third Lebanon war or a first...
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The anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and Israeli independence coincide
The Palestinian Nakba and the Israeli independence both commemorated their seventy-fifth anniversary this year. The disappearance of Palestinians has allowed the occupation to establish its state with a clear Jewish majority. Erasing Palestinian culture made it possible to pour historical memory into the lands of the new state, claiming...
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Resuming assassinations does not restore Israel deterrence
Once again, the Israeli army reverts to implementing its bloody assassination policy in the heart of the Gaza Strip, after a break of nearly nine months. They are fully aware that such a strategy will only further complicate the security situation in the Occupied Territories beyond its current state....
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Tension grows on Lebanon’s border with Israel
Many Israelis believe that a confrontation with Lebanon’s Hezbollah would be devastating. Tension on the border continues, though, with a number of incidents in recent weeks. Hezbollah has been preoccupied since 2011 with aiding the Syrian regime. However, Israeli analysts think that it has been tempted back to the...
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The Palestinian narrative is getting stronger, while the Israeli narrative declines
As Israel prepares for the outbreak of a new wave of confrontations with the Palestinians, it is also getting ready to face relentless efforts on social media to push for the continuation of resistance and confrontation of the occupation. Events in the last weeks of Ramadan led Israeli occupation...
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First 100 days of Netanyahu’s gov't are characterised by failure
The deteriorating security situation has given Israelis a great opportunity to list the failures of the new government 100 days after its formation. Members of the current coalition admit that many electoral plans and promises have not yet been fulfilled, and it is not clear whether they can be considering the...
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Attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque are draining Israel on all fronts
The Israeli occupation forces’ attacks on worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque led to a series of developments. These attacks caused rockets to be fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, and several commando operations in the West Bank were carried out, but the height of actions was the firing of...
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Israeli extremism means that there are fewer opportunities for Arab normalisation
There are concerns in Israel that the path towards normalisation with more Arab countries is no longer smooth in light of the planned legislation to suit the extreme far-right in the coalition government. Added to this is the stepping up of action to annex the occupied West Bank, and...
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Saudi-Iran deal raises Israeli worries and concerns
The agreement to renew relations between Riyadh and Tehran was not just a matter that concerned the two countries, or which helped benefit the region; for Israel it was as important as an internal affair. Israeli political, partisan and media officials were all talking about the repercussions of such...
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The Megiddo explosion presents a new front for Israel
Israelis believe that Hezbollah and Hamas were behind the Megiddo junction explosion in northern Israel in mid-March. There is also a growing concern that their cooperation could be the beginning of carrying out more operations within Israel, although investigations into the blast are still underway. This may indicate a...