by Ivo Daalder * - Politico, OtherNews
When United States President Joe Biden decided to travel to Israel this week, his immediate objective was to express solidarity with Israel, to avoid escalating the war beyond Gaza and to ask tough...
by Haggai Matar * - The Guardian, OtherNews
President Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv on Wednesday with three main goals. He wished to reaffirm his government’s complete support for the Israeli government, to repeat the warning to surrounding states against intervening...
by Antonio Michele Storto
If from a humanitarian point of view, the disaster is now beyond the collateral damage of this new flare-up of the conflict - with more than 3,000 Palestinian civilian victims, to be added to the 1,400...
by Nino Sergi
We have witnessed with horror the barbarity of the “biggest massacre of civilians in a single day since the Holocaust”, as Israeli President Isaac Herzog called it. An act of jihadist terrorism that did not stop at...
by Scott Ritter * - Special to Consortium News, OtherNews
The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence...
Editorial Board - Haaretz, OtherNews
The danger looming over Israel in recent years has been fully realized. A Prime Minister indicted in three corruption cases cannot look after state affairs, as national interests will necessarily be subordinate to extricating him...
by Ambra Visentin
Eric Salerno, journalist, special correspondent, expert on Africa and the Middle East, was the Jerusalem correspondent for the Italian daily Messaggero for almost thirty years. In this interview, he explains the possible scenarios that could emerge in...
by Raffaele Crocco
The statement is: Israel has the right to defend itself. And that is indisputable. But there is an additional question, inescapable if one is honest: does it also have the right to defend the territories it has...
by Ambra Visentin
It has been five years since Unitad, the UN Investigation Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), established at the request of Iraq, began its work. In...
by Ambra Visentin
Pressure is mounting in Iraqi Kurdistan from Turkey and Iran, with the support of the Baghdad Government. On Sunday 17 September, an alleged Turkish drone targeted a vehicle belonging to an armed group affiliated to the Kurdistan...
