Debate around the Palestintian-Israeli conflict needs to be framed around whether Palestinians have a legitimate right to resistance.
It is dangerous to argue that the peace process is dead, but it cannot be revived while the Israeli right is in power.
Yemen has slipped well down the global agenda—behind Israel-Palestine, Syria and Iraq—but, as security deteriorates, significant international effort is needed to renew its stalled transition.
The Syrian imbroglio is very difficult, not intractable—and the west cannot continue to throw up its hands in despair.
The influential nationalist-modernist ideology once attracted religious-sectarian support. Today that process is over, as the latter forces reclaim their older identities.
The shock to Israel's system from the intense conflict in Gaza is profound.
Though attention may have shifted away from Darfur, the conflict is far from over. The internally displaced are being pressured to 'return' when the issues from which they fled have yet to be resolved.
The Ukraine and Gaza crises alike demonstrate the risks of aggressive policy based on short-term calculations. Vladimir Putin and Binyamin Netanyahu's war-as-politics invites damaging long-term consequences.
A surge of Tunisian jihadists into Syria tells much about the wider story of violence and politics after the Arab Spring.
Israel's conflict with Hamas highlights its close partnership with the United States over missile defence. But it also deepens Washington's regional worries over Syria, Iraq, Hizbollah, and Iran.
Those internally displaced by the ISIS takeover in Iraq may seek refuge in KRG territory, but there future is uncertain as decisions are made about whom will be included in an independent Kurdistan.
A former aid worker who worked in Gaza for two years in the mid-2000s writes to his friends there.
