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Khaled Hassan

Egypt is revising its peace agreement with Israel

Cairo sees Israel’s military presence the Philadelphi Corridor as a direct threat and is reducing cooperation with the Jewish state in most areas

By Khaled Hassan

4 min read

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in Athens on May 7, 2025 (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Bar-On and other Mena members at the Middle East Forum, September, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, UAE

‘You can’t just wait for stability’: the Israeli working with Iranians and Qataris to build a start-up region

By Jane Prinsley

5 min read

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper announced the conference today (Photo: Getty)

UK to host ‘peace conference’ for Israeli and Palestinian civil society leaders

1 min read

Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid road toward Gaza City from Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on October 10, 2025 (Image: Getty Images)

US recruiting Palestinians for interim Gaza government

1 min read

The crowd in Hostages Square on October 9 after news of the Trump-brokered peace deal emerged (Image: Amelie Botbol)

Joy and optimism sweeps through Hostages Square in Tel Aviv

By Amelie Botbol

2 min read

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meets with the US Secretary of State at the Amiri Diwan in Doha on September 16, 2025 (Photo by NATHAN HOWARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Yossi Melman

By Yossi Melman

How the Israeli air strike on Hamas in Doha helped pave the way for the peace deal

3 min read

Hamas terrorists in Southern Gaza during a hostage release (Image: Getty)

Hamas agreement to release all hostages is just a ‘smart way’ to reject Trump deal, say analysts

By Orlando Radice

1 min read

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There is a global consensus on ending the war in Gaza, says Yvette Cooper

President Trump’s envoy has reportedly approved plan that would see early return of hostages

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September 28, 2025 10:37

Yvette Cooper in the House of Commons (Image: House of Commons).

Edy Cohen

The six times Palestinian leaders rejected a state

A minority of people who voice views about the conflict know anything about its history

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September 25, 2025 20:57

Norwegian Foreign Minister Kurt Vollebek and Yasir Arafat being asked about a talks stalemate in 1997

Less than half UK Jewry supports two-state solution, new poll finds

But more than two in five under-30s profess support for a binational Israeli-Palestinian state

By Simon Rocker

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September 19, 2025 08:10

Unforeseen consequences: President Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat and Yitzahk Rabin at the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993 (Image: Getty)

Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

By Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum

The pursuit of peace is a central value in our faith

Our sources counsel us to ‘seek peace’ but the rabbis were not naive about its attainment

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March 6, 2025 12:51

The triple handshake between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (left), US President Jimmy Carter (centre) and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin seals the signing of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treat on the White House lawn in Washington in 1979 (photo: Getty Images)

The prize of peace with the Arab world and the Palestinians is within reach, but it needs courage

There must be a commitment to creating a new governing entity in Gaza, one that can provide stability without Israel needing to carry the burden

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February 13, 2025 16:38

Palestinians outside their home in Gaza on February 9, 2025 (Photo by OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump ‘plan’ is immoral and could ignite the region

If Trump’s idea were to become reality, a military front opening against Israel along a 300km border with Jordan would be a real possibility

5 min read

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February 13, 2025 16:36

Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2022 (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

We could support Trump if he seeks the ‘ultimate’ Middle East deal, says leader of US Jewish left

Jeremy Ben-Ami has a bold new vision for Israeli-Palestinian relations

2 min read

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January 24, 2025 11:52

The head of J Street, the influential liberal Zionist advocacy group, has indicated it could support Donald Trump if his policies work towards peace in the Middle East (Image:Getty)

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

The author of the million-copy bestselling biography of the Holy City writes an exclusive essay about the carve-ups of the past

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

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September 12, 2024 13:12

Dealing with Jerusalem: The strange story of millennia of negotiations

Gaza ceasefire talks ‘on the brink of collapsing’

Washington pessimistic due to Hamas's public rejections of the latest proposal

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August 21, 2024 11:50

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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