Hamas and Hezbollah: how they are different and why they might cooperate against Israel
Oct 18, 2023 11:32 am UTC| Insights & Views
As Israel prepares for a massive military operation against Hamas in Gaza, risks of an escalating regional conflict loom large. The most critical additional threat to Israel is from Hezbollah, the militant group and...
How women in Israel and Palestine are pushing for peace — together
Oct 18, 2023 11:30 am UTC| Insights & Views
On Oct. 4, 2023, just days before the Hamas attacks on Israel and the retaliatory Israeli aerial bombardment and siege on Gaza, thousands of Israeli and Palestinian feminist peace activists gathered in Jerusalem and near...
Gaza conflict: how children’s lives are affected on every level
Oct 18, 2023 00:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
Children living in Gaza have never known anything but overcrowding, shortages, conflict and danger. Its been 18 years since the then Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, moved all Israels settlers and military...
Oct 17, 2023 15:33 pm UTC| Life
For patients in Gazas besieged north, the order to evacuate from hospital beds and head south amounts to a death sentence. That was the stark assessment of the World Health Organization on Oct. 14, 2023. By then, four...
How Serbia-Kosovo tensions hang like a spectre over the European Union
Oct 17, 2023 06:53 am UTC| Insights & Views
An armed band of Serb militants recently ambushed police in Kosovo. In the resulting firefight and retreat, four people including a police officer died from their wounds. The incident sparked official recriminations...
Hamas-Israeli conflict: what's at stake for Egypt
Oct 17, 2023 06:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As the Israeli-Hamas crisis continues, a great deal of focus is shifting to Egypt. Egypt shares a border with both Israel and Gaza the narrow strip of Palestinian territory which is currently under blockade following the...
A reflexive act of military revenge burdened the US − and may do the same for Israel
Oct 17, 2023 06:48 am UTC| Insights & Views
In the wake of the shocking invasion of southern Israel by Hamas militants on Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to destroy Hamas. We are fighting a cruel enemy, worse than ISIS, Netanyahu...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects