Palestine

With the Middle East in a period of significant conflicts, the world carefully awaits to see what course the United States’s foreign policy in the region will take after the American elections on November 5th. Despite Kamala Harris’ surge in popularity since replacing Joe Biden as the Democratic Party’s candidate, many still consider a return of Donald Trump to the…

The Labour Party achieved a landslide victory in the July 2024 UK general election. It is likely that British foreign policy will change as regards the Palestine-Israeli issue. Questions remain but analysts forecast that Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s approach will differ from that of previous Conservative governments. Thus far, Starmer is emphasising a more pragmatic, reasonable and balanced approach.…

Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, meets today, Sunday (8/4/2024), with the Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani. The purpose of the meeting is to convey a message from King Abdullah II after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the heart of Tehran during the inauguration of the Iranian president.

“The article is published in JPS Magazine” The war on Gaza between Israel and Palestinian resistance groups mainly Hamas since October 2023 has seriously threaten Jordan’s national interests as well as relations with Israel in ways not seen at least since 1994 when Amman and Tel Aviv signed their peace treaty. Prior to October 7th relations between both countries witnessed…

Following the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation (as dubbed by Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigade) that marked the start of the ongoing war (now for over 8 months), the UN declared Gaza to be an “epic humanitarian catastrophe”. Furthermore, following the latest bombing of a refugee camp in Rafah that killed 45 civilians, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres affirmed that “There is no safe place…

The article is published in JPS Magazine American policy is full of contradictions. Those contradictions have become especially evident since the war in Gaza began, but they emerged before. The contradictions make the United States a confusing actor, one subject to different strategic impulses and displaying enormous tactical inconsistency. For day-to-day and even year-to-year decision-making, the United States will likely…

Nobody in Jordan, in my opinion, would have wanted or desired the interception of Iranian drones over their territory. From the outset of the aggression on Gaza, both the state and the people of Jordan stood alongside Gaza and its population and opposed the Israeli atrocities. Jordan took the lead in diplomatic efforts against Israel, diligently working to debunk the…

The current discussions, negotiations, and debates surrounding the aftermath of today’s war on Gaza go beyond the search for the future of the region, its political formulation, and who will govern it. The focus extends to the Palestinian issue as a whole, involving planning and thinking about the future of the entire region and its regional system, especially from the…

There are many political and symbolic gains achieved with the Al-Aqsa Flood operation, and the legendary steadfastness of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, of which the most important achievement was the restoration of respect for the Palestinian cause globally, the return of the idea of ​​a “two-state solution” to the table, and the collapse of…

The latest issue (issued at the beginning of the new year 2024) of the American magazine Foreign Affairs includes  an important group of articles by senior American academics and politicians, as usual. The topic of the war on Gaza significantly dominated the articles and the main file of the magazine, which indicates the strategic importance of the region. The Middle…