International Political Forum

Beachside Resorts And Insurgency, Trouble In Paradise?

On February 15th, in the first attack on tourists in almost a decade, a tourist bus driving through Egypt’s Sinaï Peninsula was prey to a bomb attack that claimed the lives of two South Korean tour guides, a South Korean tou...
by Timothy Poirson
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International Political Forum

Egypt, Israel, and the House of Assad

Commemorated by none, forgotten by most, and unknown to many in the West, the story of the United Arab Republic is nowadays relegated to the footnotes of Cold War histories. Way back in 1958 the governments of Egypt and Syria ...
by Owen Stenner
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Scaling Back Israeli Backup

Israeli-Palestinian peace talks moderated by the US continue, with tensions high as both sides accuse one another of reneging on previous deals intended to build trust and move negotiations forward. The only consistent way towa...
by Walt Andrews
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The Regionalisation Of Counterinsurgency In Egypt

Conflicts today are increasingly difficult to contain within a single set of borders, and are now more complex in nature due to the multiplicity of actors that each have their own vested interests in the given conflicts. This m...
by Timothy Poirson
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“Bad News for the Peace Pigeon” {Cartoon}

As the Israeli election ends in a dramatic deadlock, a badly weakened Netanyahu is now forced to cobble together a coalition of parties from both camps. Scroll down for the cartoon.
by Mohammad Ali Ziaei
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International Political Forum

Regional Reactions To The Iran Nuclear Deal

As Iran’s long standing sworn “nemesis”, the Israeli reaction, voiced through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, denouncing the P5+1 Iran nuclear deal, claiming that the “agreement has made the world more dangerousâ...
by Oscar Isham
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Jerusalem: a city at war

President Obama and the US Democratic Convention took the unprecedented step of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This comes in the aftermath of the racist anti-Palestinian statements by the Republican candidate M...
by Nadim Souss
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International Political Forum

IDF Air Strikes Against Khartoum: Strategic Partnership Between Iran-Sudan Sparks Fear To Israel

Reports of air strikes by ‘unidentified’ aircrafts on Yarmouk manufacturing weapons plant in Khartoum on October 23, 2012, has raised a question mark on the ability of Omar al-Bashir in defending Sudanese sovereignty. Howev...
by Shafiy Mazlan
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More Than A Fair Share: A Jewish State For Jewish Citizens

Another national identity crisis surfaced last month, stoking the recent global wave of national struggles to carve out “true” values and recognise “true” citizens. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed a n...
by Gustav Isherwood
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