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The Qataris are not the diplomatic firefighters; they are the arsonists - opinion

Behind Doha’s image as a neutral mediator lies a regime accused of empowering Iran, exporting extremist narratives, and undermining religious freedom at home and abroad.

DOHA, QATAR - 20 Mar 2018: Emir of the State of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani during the official visit of the president of Ukraine Petero Poroshenko to the State of Qatar
Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

How Hamas’s internal cracks are becoming impossible for Gazans to ignore - opinion

Esther Luzzatto

From disaster to revival: Israel faced its destiny and changed the face of the Middle East

Wreckage from a missile impact in Arad. March 23, 2026.

Trump made a decision on Iran, now it poses an existential threat to Israel - opinion


Middle Israel: Person of the year

He showed all Israeli fanatics how to distinguish between civil debate and civil war.

Shas MK Yigal Guetta

Activists from Left, Right clash in east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah

Pending evictions in the neighborhood were the trigger for the heated altercations.

POLICE DETAIN an Arab boy during scuffles that erupted in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, north of Jerusalem’s Old City, yesterday.

American re-engagement in the Middle East 3.0

Can Trump overcome his isolationist instincts and look anew at the Middle East?

Donald Trump speaks during a joint press conference with Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the East Room of the White House in Washington , DC on Feb. 15, 2017 with an Israeli flag in the background

The Winter of Anti-Semitism

The Jerusalem Post

A drumbeat of negative commentary

With a few exceptions, reactions to Shimon Peres’s death in the Arab world painted him as a warmonger, not a peacemaker.

Shimon Peres

Reflections on a summer faculty fellowship in Israel

Despite the social and political tensions, I saw an enormous opportunity for a generation of leaders to go the extra step to maintain a Jewish state.

‘I REALIZED that although land is important, peace represents a sacred value that is more important than land. This was a major takeaway for me.’

Hot off the Arab press 466620

What citizens of other countries are reading about the Middle East.

Protesters wave Fatah and Palestinian flags during a demonstration in Nablus in August 2016.

Israeli witnesses describe Turkish 'inferno': We saw children crying and being trampled on

Final two unaccounted for Israelis in Istanbul were contacted Wednesday morning and confirmed to be unharmed.

People leave Turkey's largest airport, Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey, following a blast June 28, 2016.

Middle East poised for impact of UK withdrawal from EU vote

Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians assess possible outcomes.

A ‘BREXIT’ SUPPORTER holds a Union Jack at a Vote Leave rally in London earlier this month.

Israel signals no opposition to Egypt's return of islands to Saudi Arabia

"The Saudis, who are committed to freedom of shipping under international law, will not harm the essence of the agreement between Egypt and us," Hanegbi says.

Tiran Island