While critics say the move was only for optics and doesn't signal a shift in US support for Israel, it is yet another sign of its increasing global isolation
As the scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza deepens, action in Iran and Lebanon increases the risk of the conflict widening at the behest of a desperate Netanyahu
A nation with religious foundations is fighting to save secular democratic norms. Its polarised politics are now deterring people from military service. Al Majalla explains.
At its core, Netanyahuism is the aspiration to exercise complete control over what Netanyahu refers to as "the land of Israel" and prevent any establishment of a Palestinian state
Netanyahu's attempt to curb Supreme Court powers and the ensuing backlash by Israelis is a microcosm of the larger picture of Israel's inherent contradictions
On March 2, 2020 Israel held its third election in almost 12 months, as a political deadlock that prevented both Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Alliance from forming a…
Last summer, Jared Kushner, one of President Trump’s Senior Advisors, went to Manama, Bahrain to present the economic component of the administration’s Middle East peace plan. While many Israeli…
Next March, Israelis will head to the polls for the third time in less than a year, and, once again, the vote will amount to a referendum on the rule of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu…
In a wide-ranging interview with Al Majalla, Michael Mainelli discusses Saudi-UK ties, investments in AI and renewable energy and describes Saudi Vision 2030 as 'amazing and ambitious'
Intended as a means of avoiding future deadly conflagrations, nations' refusal to impose sanctions and targeted countries' ability to circumvent them made them ineffective in many cases
After a devastating fire in 2019, this 1,000-year-old symbol of French pride and identity is nearing its reopening, yet few know its connection to Syria's Qalb Lozeh and Middle Eastern architecture