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Israel's bombing of a building in the Gaza Strip that housed the Associated Press (AP) bureau during Operation Guardian of the Walls was an "own-goal," former IDF general Nitzan Alon said on Sunday. Alon, who conducted one of the IDF probes into the May operation, spoke during a panel at an Institute for National Security Studies' conference.

None of the Arab governments resorted to their diplomatic toolkit to send a stronger message to Israel. Rather, they used plain and routine condemnation. “Their criticism was mere rhetoric,” said Yoel Guzansky, a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies specializing in Gulf politics and security. “They did nothing on the ground. They did not expel...

Erdoğan’s harsh remarks mean prospects for reconciliation with Israel are slim. Speaking to Ahval’s Turkey Abroad podcast, Dr Gallia Lindenstrauss, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, said she did yet consider the process dead, but “seriously delayed” for now. “We know looking at the history of Turkish-Israeli relations that...

Dr. Ofir Winter, an expert on Israel-Egypt relations at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, suggests that economic issues are a major motivator for Egypt. “I think that the economy is a central issue in Egypt and has been so for several years. The main challenges faced by the country at present are economic challenges,” he told The Media Line....

The recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, and especially the events that preceded it in Jerusalem, were the first significant test of the Arab-Israeli normalization agreements signed in 2020. Saved by Hamas’ intervention, the four normalizing Arab governments were nevertheless forced to address the consequences of their agreement in the face of popular discontent...

“Egypt wants its presence as a regional leader to be felt. It wants to emphasize before the United States, the West, the European Union that it is a positive actor, a strategic asset — despite whatever pricklings of conscience they may have over human rights and democracy,” said Ofir Winter, who studies Egyptian-Israeli relations at the Institute for National Security Studies.

"We measure mileage and count bodies," says Raz Zimmt, a researcher at the Institute for National Security Studies, who specializes in Iran and its emissaries. "Our enemies look at it differently, with a broader perspective. For them, it has once again been proven that it is possible to wage a long-term conflict with Israel and endure."

None of this would have been possible without Iranian assistance, says Dr. Raz Zimmt, an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. “In the past they certainly used Iranian-made rockets,” says Dr. Zimmt. “The trend we’re seeing, not just in Gaza, but also with Hezbollah and with the Houthis in Yemen, is that they’re moving from buying...

BRIG.-GEN. (ret.) Shlomo Brom, who is a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies, told the Post that he believes there is an opportunity now for a more formal ceasefire with Gaza, and that it could include the captives. Such a possibility, he said, is contingent on the scale of the damage the IDF caused to Hamas and whether it was...