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Israeli soldiers with their Merkava tanks near Gaza. A range of regional powers all willing and able to intervene increases the risk of conflict in the Middle East. Getty Images

Israel in the new Middle East: A military giant with no legs

The region is changing, in part due to Israel's own successes. But if it leaves foreign policy decision-making to a heavily politicised clique, it may not be able to reap the rewards.

Michael Horowitz 28 December 2024
Philippe Lazzarini AFP

Philippe Lazzarini: Saudi push for two-state solution ‘the only game in town’

The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza tells Al Majalla a ceasefire in Gaza is desperately needed and warns of a humanitarian 'vacuum' without UNRWA

Ibrahim Hamidi 27 December 2024
Ewan White

How Israel’s longest war is reshaping its defence industry

Faced with threats to use weapon supply as a tool of leverage against Israel, one would expect to have Israel's defence industry leaders dead with worry. But that is not the case.

Michael Horowitz 10 December 2024

Netanyahu's revolving wars

Fares Garabet 05 December 2024
Writer and researcher Lina Meruane David Levenson - Getty Images

Lina Meruane on Palestinian erasure and genocide in real time

The acclaimed writer tells Al Majalla that Israel has used October 7 as a pretext to seize Palestinian land and erase their culture and history

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 02 December 2024
Biden speaks at a press conference at the White House, in Washington on February 8, 2024. REUTERS

Biden didn't really try to end the war in Gaza

US-led diplomatic talks were essentially a performance, doomed from the outset

Nathan J. Robinson 30 November 2024
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defence Minister Israel Katz (R) during a briefing in the Netzarim Corridor on November 19, 2024. AFP

With Hezbollah on the back burner, Netanyahu shifts focus back to Gaza

Netanyahu will not let Hamas rule post-war Gaza. In parts of the Strip, his army seems to be digging in for what could be a longer stay from the 'day after' the war ends.

Amr Emam 28 November 2024
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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant; what Europe does next is important

This is the first time the court has issued a warrant for the head of government of a major Western ally. European states must abide by it and not follow the US in condemning it.

Anthony Dworkin 21 November 2024
Barry Falls

Riyadh Summit could yet shape the dynamics of a multipolar world

To realise its immense potential as a cohesive pole in this new global order, the Islamic world needs to decide on the best way forward. Inspiration can be found in the Abbasid model

Aleksandr Dugin 21 November 2024

Where will Israel turn its guns to next?

Fares Garabet 14 November 2024
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Trump-Xi meeting is about much more than trade

22 October 2025

US and Chinese leaders have locked themselves into a downward spiral that goes far beyond tariffs, exports, and rare earths. This is about the future and who controls it.

Shirley Ze Yu
Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, delivers his speech at the opening of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), in Riyadh, 28 October 2025. Reuters
Business & Economy

Investing in people and AI: Saudi Arabia’s vision for a new Middle East

29 October 2025

Now in its ninth edition, Riyadh's Future Investment Initiative has transformed from an investment forum into a geo-economic platform redefining how nations link peace, progress, and technology

Omar Harkous
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on October 11, 2025, a day after a ceasefire took effect. AFP
Politics

Gaza's partition: Palestinian peril dressed up as pragmatism

26 October 2025

Presented as post-war stabilisation, an experiment in controlled fragmentation appears to be underway, with diplomacy, security, and commerce converging to cement a new geopolitical order

Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy
Opinion

West Bank annexation could upend the region

24 October 2025

Jordan's 1994 peace treaty with Israel remains a cornerstone of regional stability. It has survived two intifadas and recurrent Gaza conflicts, but annexation would push it to the brink

Alice Gower
Secretary of State Marco Rubio stands with Rwanda's FM Olivier Nduhungirehe and Democratic Republic of Congo's FM Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, after signing a peace agreement in Washington on June 27, 2025. AP / Mark Schiefelbein
Politics

The flaw in America's Africa policy

27 October 2025

With China, Türkiye, the Gulf states, and Russia offering tangible investment and influence in Africa, the US's reliance on facilitation and hollow declarations has reduced it to a mere observer

Sergey Eledinov

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