Author: Alon Pinkas
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Raging, Petulant, Contradictory: How to Interpret Trump’s Middle East March Madness
Haaretz | U.S. News Analysis | Donald Trump’s shifting policy announcements, flip-flopping and contradictory statements on Hamas, Gaza and Iran cannot be dismissed as just a lack of clarity or coherence. That’s a given. But there’s also a deliberate, if destructive, strategy at work Mar 11, 2025 9:22 pm IST Mar 11, 2025 9:22 pm…
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Netanyahu Plans to Attack Iran and Is Plotting to Lure Trump Into the War
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | By attacking Iran, with or without the United States, Israel’s prime minister seeks to turn the October 7 calamity into an epic strategic triumph. Will the Saudis help Trump avert this? Feb 14, 2025 7:37 pm IST Feb 14, 2025 7:37 pm IST The Iran nuclear issue, in the…
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Netanyahu should have resigned 455 days ago, way before Yoav Gallant
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | Netanyahu is sure he can manipulate Trump, who he believes couldn’t care less about Gaza and will be malleable on Iran. So the fighting will continue with no postwar political framework as Israelis remain desensitized Jan 3, 2025 6:03 pm IST Jan 3, 2025 6:03 pm IST “It is…
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Jimmy Carter was resented by Israel’s leaders for holding a mirror in front of them
Haaretz | U.S. News Analysis | The 39th U.S. president should be judged on his monumental contribution to the Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement and his commitment to human rights – for Arabs and Jews alike Dec 31, 2024 8:33 pm IST Dec 31, 2024 8:33 pm IST One of the angles used to examine the U.S.-Israel…
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Netanyahu May Be Making the Same Mistake With the Houthis as He Did With Iran
News | Middle East Analysis | Iran’s nuclear program was a global issue, ‘Israelized’ by Prime Monister Benjamin Netanyahu opposing the nuclear agreement. The Houthis firing at Israel warrants a devastating response, no doubt. But that response should be an international one Dec 26, 2024 11:51 pm IST Dec 26, 2024 11:51 pm IST The…
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Not the savior of ‘the West’: Busting the myth of Netanyahu the master strategist
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | Benjamin Netanyahu’s habit of taking credit for events he was previously wrong about, or had no impact on, is a transparent exercise in manipulative distortion of the truth. Now, after tacitly supporting Assad through the Syrian civil war, he wants credit for the fall of his regime Dec 15,…
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Iran Faces Its Biggest Crisis in Decades After Assad’s Fall. Israel Should Be Cautious
Haaretz | Middle East News Analysis | Following the weakening of its proxies and loss of loyal allies like Bashar Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, Iran will have to decide whether to risk war by ‘going nuclear’ or to engage the Americans in an effort to reach a new nuclear deal Dec 12, 2024 9:39 pm…
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Do Israel, France, South Korea, the U.S. and Romania face the same crisis of democracy? No
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | Yes, democracy’s deficiencies are manifested in similar ways around the world, but it’s a stretch to imply that this week’s events in Seoul and Paris, the election of Trump and the strengthening of far-right parties stem from the same root causes Dec 7, 2024 4:13 pm IST Dec 7,…
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A Far-right President in Romania Would Be Putin’s Proxy of Chaos in NATO and the EU
World News | Europe Analysis | With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, Romania will need to craft a balanced foreign policy toward the United States that highlights its geopolitical value. That cannot be done by a president who takes his marching orders from Moscow Dec 3, 2024 8:29 pm IST Dec…
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Israel-Hezbollah Deal Is a Tenuous Hiatus, Not a Permanent Cease-fire
Haaretz | Israel News Analysis | Let’s not pretend: Although the war corroded Iran’s deterrence, the 60-day cease-fire in Lebanon is a temporary lull as far as both Israel and Hezbollah are concerned – and if it was done so Netanyahu can prolong a futile war in Gaza, there is little to rejoice about Nov…