Professor P R Kumaraswamy is Honorary Director of MEI@ND.
When peace is viewed as ‘surrender’, there is little one can accomplish. Without an effective carr.....
The magnitude of the missile attack on Israel carried out by Iran in the early hours of Sunday was unprecedent.....
While the details are still emerging, the Hamas attacks from the Gaza Strip on Saturday were well planned and .....
The Libyan controversy reminds us of the more significant problem facing Israel. While the scale and intensity.....
64-0! It should be an impressive vote in any country, especially in Israel, where a simple parliamentary major.....
King Bibi is back! After one year in the Opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, a close friend of Prime Minister Nare.....
Political instability is an integral and inseparable part of Israel’s landscape. For the fifth time with.....
Even by the Israeli standard of coalition fragility, the Bennett-Lapid government, which completed one year in.....
Soon to enter its fourth month, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has made irreversible damages to global norms .....
The visit of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to India scheduled for last week had to be cancelled at th.....
The drone attack on Abu Dhabi on Monday (January 17) by the Houthi rebels marks a major escalation of tensions.....
Of late, Israel-Iran shadow-boxing has been getting ominous. If Israel’s diplomatic offensive is increas.....
In early November, Moscow hosted Mohammed Dahlan, a former right-hand man of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat .....
Nearly three decades after Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao broke from the past and normalised relations with .....
Earlier it was Pakistan and now China. So whatever India does and does not do externally has to be linked to C.....
In several ways, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan can be a game-changer in India’s worldview and poli.....
The Taliban takeover and its fallout exposed the limited diplomatic space for India in its immediate neighbour.....
Given the travel restrictions, local lockdown and sluggish economic revival, that over three lakh people could.....
Since 2005, some critical decisions over Iran have been taken by the MEA’s US Division. So questions ari.....
“Bibi dethroned”. This is the expression used in the Israeli media to describe the formation of a .....
Despite having a woman prime minister in Golda Meir, female political representation in Israel has not been im.....
The most interesting aspect of the new Bennett-Lapid government in Israel is the emergence of Mansour Abbas, l.....
When it comes to mediating international crises, India’s track record is a mixed bag. In recent decades,.....
Going by the Israeli media, it is clear that the arm-twisting by the Biden Administration forced the reluctant.....
Indeed, Hamas is better placed today than it was in January 2006 and the current round of violence is part of .....
While the international community wants de-escalation and an early end to the conflict, the chances of success.....
Ending the past silence, US President Joe Biden marked the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day of April 24 by ca.....
The visit of Foreign Minister of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani to India during 6-8 April reiterates .....
By posthumously bestowing the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2019 upon Sultan Qaboos of Oman, New Delhi seeks to mend .....
Much to the displeasure and discomfort of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (more widely known as MbS), t.....
The nomination of Robert Malley, a veteran hand in Washington policy circles, as the Special Envoy for Iran, s.....
The two-day visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to the United Arab Emirates last week is part of I.....
United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) decision to normalise relations with Israel is the most dramatic event since.....
Declaring victory moments after the polling ends has become the hallmark of Benjamin Netanyahu; and for the th.....
Israel went to polls for the 23rd Knesset on 2nd March. The third parliamentary elections within one year, did.....
With possible removal from office hanging over their heads, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minist.....
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s sudden and unexpected announcement regarding Israeli settlements in .....
US President Donald Trump’s decision on imposing sanctions on Turkey has rocked the ever-turbulent Middl.....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this week highlights the cha.....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reported decision to postpone a planned visit to Turkey comes a couple of w.....
With the sole and notable exception of Pakistan, India's relations with the wider Islamic world have impro.....
For a long time, India’s relationship with its extended neighbourhood in the Persian Gulf was characteri.....
The Israeli legislative or Knesset election last week has turned out to be a rerun of the 9 April one, but wit.....
Will 2019 see a third Knesset election? This question is going rounds in Israel as it faces the second parliam.....
When he called Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to congratulate on his re-election with a landslide victory.....
The resounding re-election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a blessing for India's relations with .....
Iran is back in the news and for all the wrong reasons. It has been the unnecessary third wheel in I.....
During the close to a century of its existence, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has been, as former President .....
In their eagerness to focus on and flag the de-hyphenation of the traditional Israel-Palestinian binary, most .....
In the closely scrutinised India-Israel relationship, there is little in the public domain that remains unknow.....
You know what, it will go to the dustbin’ my articulate friend was blunt, brutal but hone.....
Balfour Declaration, A Century Later If one were to make a list of the most influential texts in .....
Professor Bernard Lewis—a towering personality on the Middle Eastern academic landscape—passed awa.....
B orn in Poland on 2 August 1923, Szymon Persk who later Hebraised his name as Shimon Peres was the leader of the pr.....
W hat What began as a protest by a marginalized vegetable vendor in Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia soon spread like wildfire.....