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This is an ongoing post, updated periodically, in which Editor of the Quick Thoughts Series on Jadaliyya provides commentary on the war on Gaza. This commentary may or may not appear elsewhere on the author’s social media.

Marc Lamont Hill discusses the latest move towards recognising Palestinian statehood with analyst Mouin Rabbani.

The ICC Prosecutor’s applications for arrest warrants regarding the Situation in Palestine represent a milestone. But they are of little credit to Prosecutor Karim Khan. It is abundantly clear that Khan has been sitting on this file for years, hoping it would simply disappear. Two matters forced..

This article expands upon an earlier one co-authored with Hasmik Egian, “Is ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan Fit for Purpose?” published in 

In the early hours of November 22, Qatar formally announced

In a November 6 press conference on the Middle East, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres characterized the situation in the Gaza Strip as “a crisis of humanity.” Gaza, he noted, “is becoming a graveyard for children.” In the space of one month, it had also become a cemetery for mor..

The title of this article reproduces a headline from Globes, Israel’s financial daily, published the day before US President Joe Biden delivered 

Almost fifty years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again been caught with its pants down. On this occasion its briefs were dangling from its ankles as well. Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, as Hamas named its 7 October offensive in..

A decade after the initial Oslo Accord was signed in 1993, public opinion on the process it spawned was divided between those who believed it was a promising initiative to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace that was tragically derailed, and those who insisted that it lacked the rudimentary elemen..

As the struggle between PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat and the mili­tants of Hamas intensifies in the Gaza Strip, it seems that Palestinians face an unenviable choice between autocracy and Islamic radicalism. Yet, in this collection of previously pub­lished essays, the Palestinian-American intellectu..

Edward W. Said played a unique role in the contemporary Palestinian national movement. It is difficult to imagine it being reproduced by another individual Palestinian, a judgement that reflects both Said’s extraordinary qualities and the fundamental transformation of the environment in which he..

The 10 March 2023 agreement between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) to resume diplomatic relations severed in 2016 is widely viewed as an inflection point in the geopolitics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Of particular significance is that th..

On 13 September 1993 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasir Arafat signed the Oslo Accords at a White House ceremony officiated by United States President Bill Clinton. To mark the thirtieth anniversary of this agreement, and take stock o..

The contention that the roots of Israel’s current political crisis are to be found in its policies towards the Palestinian people is gaining currency. According to this perspective the Netanyahu government’s authoritarian legislative agenda, and the methods deployed to achieve it, represent the ..