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Category: Middle East
Israel finally gets a government
Benjamin Netanyahu has used the full amount of time available, but he appears to have finally put together a new right-wing coalition.
Peace hopes for Kurdistan
There are renewed hopes this morning for peace prospects in one of the world's most significant ethnic conflicts.
The continuing saga of nuclear Iran
The supposed Iranian nuclear crisis never goes away, perhaps because it's in some people's interests for it not to go away.
Netanyahu gets an extension
Benjamin Netanyahu has another 14 days to try to put together a new government. For the first time, there seems a real chance that he might not succeed.
The problem isn’t loyalty, but citizenship
The problem in the Ben Zygier/Prisoner X case, and potentially in many others, is the way the state demands a certain sort of loyalty – "allegiance" – of its citizens.
Who lost Gaza?
If you were trying to promote peace, fostering civil war between Fatah and Hamas was a really silly idea. But who said the Bush administration was trying to promote peace?
An electoral roundup
Results from Ecuador, Armenia and Grenada, plus an early election looming in Bulgaria.
Netanyahu bags a centrist
Benjamin Netanyahu needs some centrist cover to form a new right-wing coalition. Now, four weeks after the Israeli election, he seems to have found it.
A new angle on Israel’s dilemma
A comparison with the fate of the Germans in central Europe after the Second World War offers a new understanding of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
