Iran under President Raisi: What should the region and the West expect? | An interview with Henry Rome
By Henry Rome
On 13 July, Fathom’s deputy editor Samuel Nurding sat down with the Eurasia Group’s Henry Rome to discuss...
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July 2021
Against Solutionism, Against Nowism: For ‘the Longer, Shorter Path’ | An interview with Moshe Ya'alon
By Moshe Ya'alon
Former Israeli Minister of Defence Lieutenant General (Ret.) Moshe ‘Bogie’ Ya'alon was born in Kiryat Haim in 1950...
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June 2021
Opinion | Iran now controls three borders with Israel. Hamas’s missile war was a foretaste of what Tehran intends next
By Kyle Orton
Israel has been thwarting Iran’s global terrorist operations but has been less successful closer to home. The IRGC...
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June 2021
Gazan Futures | After Operation Guardians of the Wall
By Amos Yadlin
Amos Yadlin discusses the recent asymmetric conflict between Israel and Hamas, providing five insights about the operation and...
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June 2021
Gazan Futures | Prospects of a long-term armistice or hudna with Hamas
By Ehud Yaari
Ehud Yaari is an expert on Middle Eastern affairs. He is the author of eight books on the...
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June 2021
Gazan Futures | Five ways to strengthen the Palestinian Authority and facilitate its return to Gaza
By Celine Touboul
Celine Touboul is the co-Executive Director of the Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF), an Israeli policy-planning think-tank. Celine leads...
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June 2021
How to Defeat Hamas
By Toby Greene
Toby Greene argues that military tools are not enough. What’s needed is a long-term vision for sustainable political...
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June 2021
Still Standing, but Shaky: Jordan at 100
By Asher Susser
Asher Susser is Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University (TAU). On the occasion of Jordan’s...
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May 2021
Palestinian Elections: As In 2006, A Dangerous Idea
By Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Deputy...
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April 2021
President Biden's Middle East Policy
By Yossi Kuperwasser
Yossi Kuperwasser argues that President Biden's Middle East policy reflects the tension between his understanding that the region...
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April 2021
Trump and Netanyahu: The Disagreements Beneath The Surface
By Ofer Zalzberg
In this insightful essay Ofer Zalzberg, Director of the Middle East Program at the Herbert C. Kelman Institute...
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March 2021
BICOM Forecast Paper: The Middle East in 2021
By BICOM
BICOM’s sixth annual forecast is a guide for policy makers and opinion formers to issues and events that will...
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January 2021
UK-Israel 2021 | How Israel military tech (and doctrine) will make the UK better at fighting the hybrid warfare of...
By Seth Frantzman
Technology is radically transforming the battlefield, revolutionising doctrines of warfighting and counter-terrorism. ‘Hybrid warfare’ is the new reality....
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January 2021
UK-Israel 2021 | An interview with UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan
By Neil Wigan OBE
BICOM’s Director Richard Pater spoke to UK Ambassador Neil Wigan shortly before the turn of the year about...
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January 2021
Book Review | Head of the Mossad: In Pursuit of a Safe and Secure Israel
By Paul Gross
The Director of the Mossad has to think geopolitically. He (and so far it has always been a...
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December 2020
Fathom Long Read | Adorno and Iran: Critical Theory and Islamic Antisemitism
By Stephan Grigat
‘After Auschwitz’, said the German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno, we should embrace a new categorical imperative:...
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December 2020
Fathom Podcast | Will Saudi Arabia make peace with Israel?
By Sir John Jenkins
In this podcast, Fathom's Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding speaks with Sir John Jenkins, a senior fellow at Policy...
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December 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | The Abraham Accords shattered a policy paralysis and a cycle of failed mediation and negotiations...
By Alex Ryvchin
Trump’s decision to upend the failed foreign policy establishment orthodoxy about the Middle East Peace Process is being...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘Biden will not reprise the acrimony of Barack Obama’s dealings with Israel. He may prove...
By Joshua Muravchik
A Biden administration carries the promise of restoring bipartisanship to support for the Jewish state, says Joshua Muravchik....
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | Don't expect to see the Obama/Kerry paradigm
By Robert Satloff
Robert Satloff, the Executive Director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argues that whilst the Middle...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘There is simply too much damage to repair around the world. The Israelis and the...
By Jo-Ann Mort
A Biden/Harris administration will seek to return foreign policy to the Obama track, but the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will...
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November 2020
Symposium: Biden and Israel | ‘The biggest challenge for US-Israeli relations will be Iran. The Biden team has been vague,...
By Jonathan Rynhold
While the theatrics of Biden and Netanyahu’s personal relationship may engage the attention of media pundits, policymakers will...
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November 2020
Images of Israel in India
By Khinvraj Jangid
Dr Khinvraj Jangid is Director of the Centre for Israel Studies at Jindal School of International Affairs, OP...
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October 2020
The Soldiers are Still Talking
By Tal Kra-Oz
Soldiers' Talk: Protective Edge (2019) is a set of interviews with those who served in Gaza in 2014....
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June 2020
Why the world needs to worry about the expiration of the Iran arms embargo in October 2020
By Ezra Friedman
Ezra Friedman warns that the expiration of the Iran arms embargo in October 2020 will allow Iran not...
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April 2020
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies | An interview with Clive Jones
By Clive Jones
Fraternal Enemies: Israel and the Gulf Monarchies by Clive Jones and Yoel Guzansky is a revealing history of the complex and...
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March 2020
Arab Council Takes Aim at Arab Laws Banning Contact with Israeli Citizens: an interview with Mostafa El-Dessouki
By Mostafa El-Dessouki
At a watershed event in London last November, 32 prominent civil society figures from 15 Arab countries publicly...
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March 2020
Israel and the Soleimani assassination
By Yossi Alpher
In 1979, as the Mossad’s chief Iran analyst, Yossi Alpher discussed with the head of Mossad a request...
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March 2020
‘The fight against ISIS was successful, but not on a strategic level’| An interview with Seth Frantzman, author of After...
By Seth Frantzman
Seth Frantzman’s new book, After ISIS: America, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East, based on his...
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January 2020
Gas and foreign policy: how Israel is leveraging energy to stabilise the region and advance geostrategic objectives
By Ezra Friedman
Ezra Friedman writes that the discovery of gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean has given Israel, long perceived...
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December 2019
Thucydides Goes to Washington: an interview with Michael Doran about US Grand Strategy in the Middle East
By Michael Doran
Michael Doran is a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC. specialising in Middle East security...
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November 2019
Why Israel’s year of elections has left a foreign policy hangover
By Joshua Krasna
Joshua Krasna is a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Programme on the Middle East and a...
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October 2019
The UK in the Middle East (3) | Emman al-Badawy on UK strategy and the region’s youth quake
By Dr Emman El-Badawy
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to explore UK strategy...
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July 2019
UK Strategy in the Middle East (2) | Toby Greene on why populisms of left and right will prevent the...
By Toby Greene
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in collaboration with the Britain Israel Communications and...
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July 2019
UK Strategy in the Middle East (1) | Alistair Burt on the UK’s regional role: is policy fit for purpose?
By Alistair Burt MP
On 2 July 2019 the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) organised a one-day conference to explore UK strategy...
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July 2019
Israel and the ‘Crisis of the Arabs’ | an interview with Asher Susser
By Asher Susser
Professor Asher Susser spoke with Fathom Deputy Editor Samuel Nurding on the eve of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty...
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June 2019
As economic crisis worsens, Iran threatens to reactivate nuclear programme
By Yaakov Lappin
In this essay, military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin analyses the rationale behind the US ‘maximum pressure’ campaign,...
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June 2019
Book Review | The Great Betrayal: How America abandoned the Kurds and lost the Middle East
By Paul Iddon
The thesis of David E. Philips’ book The Great Betrayal: How America Abandoned The Kurds And Lost The...
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June 2019
Book Review | Temperature Rising: Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Wars in the Middle East
By Paul Iddon
Nader Uskowi opens his first book, a concise but definitive account of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC)...
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April 2019
Critical Reflections on the Trump Peace Plan | A conversation with Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
By Dennis Ross and David Makovsky
In late February, David Makovsky and Dennis Ross spoke at a BICOM/RUSI event in London about their upcoming...
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April 2019
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From Johns Hopkins to Beirut, and from Beirut to Columbia: a history of the ‘settler colonialism’ charge
Progressive except for Jews (PEJs): The Australian Greens and the 7 October Hamas Death Squad Massacre
Book Review | The Holy and the Broken – A Cry for Israeli-Palestinian peace from a land that must be shared
Reversing the victims and perpetrators of racism: the use of blaming the victim strategies to minimise and deny the antisemitism crisis in Australian universities
The Rise of Itamar Ben Gvir
