A post-Trump peace process
by Neville Teller Back in February 2020, shortly after President Donald Trump had unveiled his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas addressed the UN Security More...
Iran’s governments-in-waiting
Reza Pahlavi by Neville Teller October 31, 2020 marked the 60th birthday of the man born to be Shah of Iran and who, for the first nineteen More...
Will this be Israel’s future? A flight of fancy into 2048
Civil war By Neville Teller Back in 2017 journalist Paul Alster, acting on behalf of an Israeli periodical, interviewed officials working in Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. More...
Israel in the post-Brexit world of CANZUK
by Neville Teller It did not take long for “Brexit”, a portmanteau term invented in 2012, to become common usage the world over. Since then a new expression has been bidding for its place in the sun More...
Why are big powers so interested in a small local conflict?
by Neville Teller No one could call Nagorno-Karabakh the center of the civilized world. It is a small chunk of land in a remote region in the southern Caucuses, flanked on one side More...
Why Lebanon needs its revolution
by Neville Teller On October 27, 2020, a year after former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri was dismissed from office, he was reappointed by President Michel Aoun. Despite Hariri’s previous inability More...
Multi-national cooperation in the Middle East
by Neville Teller Hope is flourishing in the Middle East. Many believe that the historic normalization deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain will broaden into More...
Why the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict matters
by Neville Teller Few conflicts in what may loosely be termed the Middle East have managed to remain self-contained ‒ certainly none of those currently being played out. The participants in each dispute in More...
Time for three Yeses
by Neville Teller Shortly after Israel had routed the combined military forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan in the Six-Day War in June 1967, eight Arab heads of state ‒ kings, emirs, More...
Jerusalem and the embassy issue
The US Embassy in Jerusalem by Neville Teller When politicians say of any problem that their position is “clear”, you can be pretty certain that it is anything but. Clarity on the issue of Jerusalem, More...