Khaled Elgindy, a former advisor to Palestinian peace negotiators, warns of a bigger humanitarian crisis in Gaza. “No one has an end game.”
Middle East
The Middle East is both ancient and dramatically changing. Authoritarian rulers dominate, but some countries are opening economically and socially. And new alignments are being forged as the U.S. takes a step back from the region and China begins to play a more active role.
Saudi Arabia is pausing the normalization process will Israel, which may give it greater leverage in the future with the U.S. and Israel.
Air defense systems like Iron Dome can be overwhelmed if they are overmatched by the number of threats they have to counter.
Google’s Bard AI chatbot won’t respond to queries that contain the words Israel or Palestine. That includes prompts about Palestine, Texas.
These five books offer a range of perspectives that will help you put the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian war in its broader historical context.
In both 1973 and 2023, Israeli intelligence misjudged its adversaries’ willingness to go to war and failed to detect its enemy’s preparations.
Yasir Al-Rumayyan is one of the most influential men in business and sport, serving as the public face of Saudi Arabia’s global push.
Lebron and Giannis joked about going to play professionally in Saudi Arabia, which is luring top-tier athletes with enormous sums of cash.
The PIF’s deep pockets may not be deep enough to achieve the Saudi grand vision of bringing golf to the Saudi Arabian masses.
The merger between LIV Golf and the PGA Tour is just the beginning of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in sports.