Regional Policies

The King Has Moved Ahead of State Institutions in Defining the Threat The article examines a potential gap between the urgency of the King’s warnings and the nature of the institutional and political response. The most pressing question is whether decision-making mechanisms, early-warning systems, and national preparedness have evolved accordingly, or whether the response has remained largely confined to political…

The proposal by Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, to assign security and administrative responsibility for parts of the West Bank to Jordan sparked a dispute with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In an interview with Besheva, Lieberman argued that the Palestinian Authority was no longer capable of administering these areas and that Israel needed to find another party…

The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria issued a new statement on the occasion of the fifth ordinary session of its Shura Council—the second such meeting since the liberation—held, in the statement’s words, amid “highly complex regional and international circumstances.”[1] The statement contained sixteen points: ten addressing external affairs and six focused on domestic issues, although several carried messages directed simultaneously at…

The events of October 7, 2023, and the war that followed reopened the debate over Palestinian political identity, the sources of legitimacy, the actor capable of representing Palestinians, and the most effective instruments for achieving their national rights. The war confronted Palestinian society with two simultaneous experiences: the capacity of armed action to break political stagnation and return the Palestinian…

The displacement scenario remains the most prominent in the calculations of the dominant political current, and it poses the gravest danger to Jordan. Any formula that places broad security or administrative responsibilities on Jordan, while the core instruments of control remain in Israel’s hands, would drain the Kingdom, draw it into daily friction with the Palestinian population, and open the…

Executive Summary      Morocco’s legislative elections are set to take place on 23 September 2026 in a context markedly different from that of the 2021 elections. Inflation fell from 6.6% in 2022 to 0.8% in 2025, yet this decline has not dispelled public perceptions of eroding purchasing power. Unemployment stands at around 13%, rising to 37.2% among young people. The…

Executive Summary Political deadlock and the absence of broad social acceptance pushed the movement toward an alternative path based on armed organisation. Allowing an armed actor to participate in negotiations without requiring it to disarm enabled the movement to accumulate political legitimacy and military power simultaneously. The generation whose political consciousness took shape before 2004 is less vulnerable; the greater…

Against the backdrop of changes in European Israeli relations and the escalation of Israeli policies in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip particularly the use of settlement expansion as a means of undermining the two state solution, eliminating the practical possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and advancing displacement eleven European countries,…

The Yemeni arena is witnessing a highly dangerous military and security transformation, as the Houthis advance along the western coast and take control of sites and areas of strategic importance. Discussion of the city of Mokha, expansion toward Bab al-Mandab, and access to the archipelago, Mayyun Island, and adjacent coastal areas means that current developments go beyond a change in…

While the repercussions of the wars that began on October 7 continue to reshape the calculations of regional powers, the United States has begun shifting from managing confrontation to considering the political order it seeks to build in its aftermath. This transition raises a question that extends beyond the outcomes of the wars themselves: how will Washington leverage those outcomes…