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Items by Dr Adnan Abu Amer
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Israeli meetings with the PA destabilise the government coalition
The Israeli political and partisan scene is still experiencing echoes of the meeting that brought together leaders of the left-wing Meretz Party, headed by Nitzan Horowitz, partner in the government coalition, with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, at the Muqata headquarters in Ramallah. This created an atmosphere of tension within...
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Rising resistance in the West Bank increases Israeli concerns
As Palestinian resistance operations gradually return in the West Bank, Israeli security services and the army are becoming increasingly concerned about what they believe to be a worrying awakening of resistance cells. The recent armed attacks in the West Bank are getting the Israeli security services to wonder about the...
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The current security threats which challenge Israel
With the arrival of the Hebrew New Year, the Israeli security and military forums have been busy monitoring the main challenges facing the country, as it continues to suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate change crisis which is exacerbating its economic, social and political dilemmas. The first security...
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Israel has concerns about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Israelis are concerned about the shameful American withdrawal from Afghanistan and think that their government now needs to reassert its ability to protect its own interests in the region and beyond. The general feeling is that the withdrawal will now give Israel’s enemies more freedom to move, especially Iran,...
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Escape from Gilboa
The escape of six Palestinian prisoners from Israel’s high-security Gilboa Prison has shed some light on the great suffering of prisoners and detainees held by the occupation state. Almost every Palestinian family is familiar with Israeli arrest procedures and the conditions of detainees; with 25 per cent of the...
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Israeli doubts about the Bennett-Biden summit
Israeli circles have been deliberating numerous analyses of the presidential summit held between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and US President Joe Biden, who refrained from meeting with former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to long-standing differences on many bilateral issues. Despite the crowded agenda discussed during the summit at...
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Israel’s growing links with China concern Washington
It is no secret that growing economic relations between Israel and China are raising concerns in Washington, despite internal warnings in the occupation state that Beijing is exploiting these ties to obtain military and security technology through secret means. The echoes of a Chinese cyber-attack on Israel still reverberate. Between...
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American Jews are growing more estranged from Israel
It is known in Israel that there is a trend among young American Jews not to support the self-styled Jewish state. Moreover, such young US citizens are urging Washington not to support Israel. This is a dramatic shift that will change the face of the largest Jewish community in...
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Towards shaping an Israeli road map regionally and internationally
Israel faces security challenges and military threats and there is an ongoing domestic political crisis which affects its relations with its neighbours and the international community. The occupation authorities are apparently in urgent need of a “road map” to set out the basic parameters of the state and its...
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Israel continues to target Al-Aqsa Mosque under new government
Recent statements by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett about the freedom of Jews to pray inside Al-Aqsa Mosque have once again highlighted the debate about Jerusalemites and Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, and their ongoing battle against the occupation state since Ramadan. Bennett’s statements also throw the spotlight on the Old...
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Israeli frustration with the continued dilemma of Gaza
Two months after the end of the last Israeli aggression on Gaza, Israel admitted that there is no simple solution to the situation in the strip. The instability of the current ceasefire entails Israel to discuss a number of necessary steps to weaken Hamas and bring the Palestinian Authority...
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15 years since the Second Lebanon War, Israel hasn’t tackled its military deficiencies
As Israel celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, more shortcomings of the Israeli military are surfacing and seem to be centred on the lack of readiness and communication between army factions and intelligence services. Fifteen years after the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War, the Israeli public...
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Israel is prioritising its relations with Jordan
The lengthy-term of office of Benjamin Netanyahu was marked by strained relations with Jordan. The new Israeli government is now seeking to restore relations with the Hashemite Kingdom, which reached their lowest level during the Netanyahu era because maintaining the peace treaty with Jordan is very important for Israel’s...
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The PA is clamping down on public and press freedoms, but in whose interests?
The Palestinian Authority’s murder of opposition figure and political activist Nizar Banat in the occupied West Bank is still reverberating around the local political, security, and media arenas. The killing of Banat was a sign of the increasing security hegemony imposed by the PA free of legal oversight by...
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PA hopes to benefit from Gaza’s reconstruction file
Over the past few hours, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced the formation of three teams, composed mostly of its ministers with a partial representation from Gaza, to rebuild the Strip. It also declared that it has not received any of the funds promised for reconstruction projects. This comes after three...
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Israel’s new government starts work with a heavy agenda
Israel’s 36th government has been sworn in and ministers have to start work immediately. After four elections in two years, they have some urgent tasks to focus on. Thorny issues include budgets, priorities and new policies. The Ministry of Defence faces the most burning issues. Although Benny Gantz also led...
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Overthrowing Netanyahu
It is important to stress at the very beginning that those once close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are the same people who now want to see the back of him: former Interior Minister Gideon Sa’ar; Avigdor Lieberman, the PM’s chief of staff during the 1990s; Naftali Bennett,...
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Israel’s failures in confronting the resistance groups in Gaza
When the latest Israeli aggression against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip came to an end last Friday morning, the various shortcomings and errors of the occupation army and government, which may have compromised the objectives of the military offensive, started to unfold. They may require an internal investigation,...
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Israel declares bankruptcy in Gaza aggression on Hamas
As the Israeli aggression on Gaza continues for the third consecutive day, there is a conviction within the ranks of the occupation army that unless it strengthens its deterrence against Hamas in this round, the movement will threaten to resume attacks each time tension arises in Jerusalem. Although the...
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Israel’s policy in Jerusalem escalates situation in Gaza and West Bank
At a time when the confrontations in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem persist, Israeli security and military circles have expressed concerns over the continuation of the uprising that erupted at the Damascus Gate at Al-Aqsa Mosque. These events were followed by the subsequent burst of rockets launched from...
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Abbas vexes Palestinian political scene after unilaterally postponing elections
President Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to postpone the Palestinian legislative elections is clearly in line with the demands of the occupation authorities who rejected these elections from the very beginning for fear of a potentially sweeping victory for Hamas. This would be a setback for the settlement team, creating a...
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Israel’s defence systems leave it open to attack
Regardless of the side that carried out the missile attack on the area surrounding the Dimona nuclear reactor, south of Israel, be it Iran, Syria, or another party, the bombing continues to spark criticism in the occupation state following the defence system’s failure to intercept the missile, while raising...
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Israel’s military preoccupation with Iran is growing
Israeli security, political and military circles are agitated amid increasing military tension with Iran, highlighted by the recent attack on the Natanz nuclear facility and the announcement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which looked like a claim of responsibility. He has been criticised for this breach of Israel’s usual...
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Meshaal leads Hamas once again
After being absent from Hamas’s leadership during the 2017-2021 term, the movement announced electing Khaled Meshaal, the former head of its political bureau, to lead the Palestinian Islamist group’s office in the diaspora in the next 2021-2025 term. This makes Meshaal the second most powerful man in the movement,...
