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  • Israel Faces Scrutiny Over Gaza as Democrats Take Control of U.S. Congress

    Israel Faces Scrutiny Over Gaza as Democrats Take Control of U.S. Congress
    2026/11/15
    Israeli hopes that a post-Netanyahu government will help the Jewish state improve its severely damaged image and improve relations with a Democrat-controlled US Congress threaten to get off to a troubled start. In what could be a bruising battle, Democrats are gearing up to block funding for President Donald Trump’s toothless Board of Peace and take Israel to task for failing to allow the entry of temporary housing materials and other humanitarian goods on a large scale into the Gaza Strip.
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    9 分
  • Middle East Report

    Middle East Report
    2026/10/25
    James discusses on Radio Islam the expected escalation in the Iran and Yemen wars, why the United States will continue to be the backbone of Gulf security, why US Israeli relations are set to change, and the fate of Iranian Kurds.
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    7 分
  • Why Saudi Arabia Rejects Israeli Help in Yemen

    Why Saudi Arabia Rejects Israeli Help in Yemen
    2026/10/20
    Israel’s defence doctrine, adopted in the wake of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish state, embodies everything that would make overt collaboration with Saudi Arabia against Yemen’s Iranian-backed Ansarullah Houthi rebels all but impossible. This includes the doctrine’s rejection of Saudi Arabia’s demand that Israel agree to an irreversible pathway for the creation of an independent Palestinian state as a pre-condition for the establishment of diplomatic relations. Moreover, Saudi and Israeli strategies are diametric opposites. Saudi Arabia emphasises economic cooperation and regional stability as cornerstones of its policies, not permanent war, pre-emptive military strikes, and occupation as envisioned in Israel’s defence doctrine. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu last week offered to assist Saudi Arabia in Yemen in the hope that it would open the door to closer security ties to the kingdom and pave the way for Saudi recognition of Israel.
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    12 分
  • Where Do the Elections Leave Israel’s Government and Post-War Policy?

    Where Do the Elections Leave Israel’s Government and Post-War Policy?
    2026/10/29
    This week’s Israeli election has opened the door to weeks, if not months, of backroom horse trading with neither Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition nor opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot’s block securing enough votes to garner majority backing in the Knesseth, the Israeli parliament. Sharpening fault lines in Israeli society, neither Mr. Netanyahu nor Mr. Eisenkot want to work with Palestinian Israeli parties whose unprecedented more than 15 seats in the 120-member assembly make them the obvious kingmakers. The refusal, which could fall by the wayside, as Messrs. Netanyahu and Eisenkot jockey to be tasked by President Isaac Herzog with the formation of a new government, spotlights deep-seated prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination of Palestinian Israelis, who account for 20 per cent of the population. James talks to BFM. 89.9 about what the election, touted as the most consequential in Israel, means and how much of a difference an Eisenkot government would make when it comes to policy towards the Palestinians, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria.
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    7 分
  • Israel's election: Who will govern?

    Israel's election: Who will govern?
    2026/10/30
    With all votes counted, election results announced, and no block garnering enough votes to form a majority government, Israel is looking at an initial ten days of backroom horse trading.
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    10 分
  • Why Democrats’ victory is a double-edged sword for Iran

    Why Democrats’ victory is a double-edged sword for Iran
    2026/11/08
    The Democrats are not the only winners of this week’s US midterm elections. So is Iran. The Democrats’ ride to control of both houses of the US Congress vindicated Iran’s strategy that aimed to disrupt global energy markets, drive up prices for consumers in the United States and elsewhere, and fuel inflation. The Democrats’ victory repudiated the war, which a majority of Americans oppose. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance conceded that the war was a major reason for the Republicans’ electoral losses. So was Mr. Trump’s imposition of tariffs, the cost of which is borne by American consumers. Even so, Iran’s success in compounding the affordability crisis in the United States could prove to be a double-edged sword.
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    9 分
  • The Midterms, Israel's Election, Iran, the Gulf, and the Changing Middle East with James M. Dorsey

    The Midterms, Israel's Election, Iran, the Gulf, and the Changing Middle East with James M. Dorsey
    2026/11/06
    James discusses with J.G. Michael on Parallax Views the fallout of the US midterm Congressional and Israeli elections for Iran, the Gulf and a rapidly changing Middle East.
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  • Did Netanyahu’s bet on ‘the wrong man’ enable October 7?

    Did Netanyahu’s bet on ‘the wrong man’ enable October 7?
    2026/11/12
    Palestinian Israeli member of parliament Mansour Abbas couldn’t believe his ears. Sitting in the prime minister’s office in May 2021 as Israeli bombs rained on the Gaza Strip, Binyamin Netanyahu expressed confidence in Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, whom he two years later would hold responsible for the group’s October 7 devastating attack on the Jewish state. The “prime minister trusted Yahya Sinwar and told me: ‘Yahya Sinwar and I understand each other,’” Mr. Mansour quoted Mr. Netanyahu as saying during a meeting to discuss the possible inclusion of the Palestinian’s United Arab List (Ra’am) in a Netanyahu-led government. Mr. Netanyahu pointed to a 2018 handwritten Hebrew-language note in which Mr. Sinwar asked the prime minister to take a “calculated risk” in negotiations for a long-term ceasefire that would have regularised Israeli-authorised Qatari funding of Hamas’ administration of Gaza. Mr. Netanyahu "trusted Yahya Sinwar, went to sleep at night, and abandoned the security of the citizens of the State of Israel," Mr. Mansour asserted as the prime minister this week sought to sabotage opposition leader Gadi Eisenkott’s formation of a new post-election coalition government, possibly with the support of Palestinian Israeli members of parliament.
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    9 分