Children in Palestine and Israel continue to suffer as international law is routinely ignored
Oct 11, 2023 03:43 am UTC| Insights & Views
Among the hundreds already dead in the latest hostilities between Israel and Hamas, very many are children. And despite the killing of children being invoked by both sides as evidence of their enemys brutality, the death...
Oct 11, 2023 03:41 am UTC| Insights & Views
Defining what is and isnt a country is a lot more complicated than many people would realize. Take the case of Taiwan. On Aug. 30, 2023, a committee of the U.K. Parliament referred to Taiwan as an independent country in...
Why Al-Aqsa remains a sensitive site in Palestine-Israel conflict
Oct 10, 2023 07:39 am UTC| Insights & Views
As a scholar of global Islam, I teach an introduction to Islam course and include a discussion about Al-Aqsa as part of the syllabus. Thats because Al-Aqsa has deep religious significance for Muslims around the...
Oct 10, 2023 07:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
In many ways Hamass attack on Israel sums up the essence of terrorism. The groups mass incursions have seen its operatives storming Israeli towns, killing and kidnapping hundreds. This appears to have been done by the book...
Why did Hamas attack, and why now? What does it hope to gain?
Oct 09, 2023 13:03 pm UTC| Insights & Views
In hindsight, the drivers of Hamass startlingly well-planned, land-sea-air attack on Israel on Saturday were in plain sight. The operation reflects a pattern of four wars and regular outbreaks of violence between Israel...
Oct 09, 2023 12:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The parallels were striking and surely not coincidental. Exactly 50 years and a day after being taken completely off guard by a coordinated military attack by its neighbors Egypt and Syria Israel was again caught by...
After a shocking Hamas assault on Israel, both sides brace for the devastating fall-out
Oct 09, 2023 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views
Almost 50 years ago to the day, Israel failed to anticipate the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur war a shock attack on its borders by a coalition of Arab states. Now, it appears the countrys intelligence apparatuses...
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