By James M. Dorsey I hope you enjoy today’s column and podcast. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Paid subscribers help me cover the cost of contributing fact-based analysis and understanding to a debate that has become increasingly polarised and weaponised. To become a paid subscriber, please click on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choose one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Newly elected Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin was furious. The bloo ..read more

By James M. Dorsey I hope you enjoyed today’s column and podcast. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Paid subscribers help me cover the cost of contributing fact-based analysis and understanding to a debate that has become increasingly polarised and weaponised. To become a paid subscriber, please click on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choose one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other leading Israeli figures a ..read more

 By James M. Dorsey I hope you enjoyed today’s column and podcast. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Paid subscribers help me cover the cost of contributing fact-based analysis and understanding to a debate that has become increasingly polarised and weaponised. To become a paid subscriber, please click on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choose one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Israel’s latest Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange proposal puts the b ..read more

By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. An Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gazan enclave of Rafah is a question of when, not if. Not because Prime Minister Biny ..read more

By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Multiple overt and covert wars have pushed the Middle East to the edge of a cliff. Increased tension between Iran and Israel co ..read more

By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. The Gaza ceasefire negotiations have all but broken down, with Israel and Hamas pursuing mutually exclusive goals. At stake in t ..read more

 By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Despite its devastating human and physical cost, Israel’s effort to destroy Hamas has a whack-a-mole aspect. Even though I ..read more

  By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is tying himself up in knots as he grudgingly, and only to a limited degree, bo ..read more

  By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. The Greater Middle East is a ticking time bomb. Generations in war-wracked Palestine, Syria, and Yemen have little, if an ..read more

By James M. Dorsey The Turbulent World with James M. Dorsey depends on the support of its readers. If you believe that the column and podcast add value to your understanding and that of the broader public, please consider becoming a paid subscriber by clicking on the subscription button at http://www.jamesmdorsey.substack.comand choosing one of the subscription options. Thank you. To watch a video version of this story or listen to an audio podcast click here. Muhammad Manassara walked in late February into a gas station near the West Bank settlement of Eli. Armed with an automatic weap ..read more