Red lines and pitfalls: the Iran deal and beyond – an interview with Mike Herzog
By Michael Herzog
Brig. Gen. (res.) Michael Herzog assesses the underlying concerns with the Iran nuclear negotiations, the implications for the...
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Summer 2015
Gaza One Year After - An Interview with Elhanan Miller
By Elhanan Miller
Elhanan Miller is the Arab Affairs reporter for the Times of Israel. Alan Johnson is the editor...
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Summer 2015
Israel, Europe and the converging terror threat
By Amichai Magen
Dr. Amichai Magen maps the increasing interconnectedness of the Islamist terror threats faced by Europe and Israel, and...
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Winter 2015
The Struggle over the Iranian Nuclear Programme
By Yossi Kuperwasser
It is incumbent on Israel to use all the diplomatic and political tools at its disposal to halt...
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Winter 2015
The Resistible Rise of Iran: an Interview with Michael Ledeen
By Ben Cohen
Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen spoke with the historian and analyst Michael Ledeen about US foreign policy towards...
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Winter 2015
IS and the incoherence of Western policy
By Jonathan Spyer
The West wants to destroy IS but it has neither allies on the ground nor a grasp of...
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Autumn 2014
Reflections on the Middle East’s Christians in these strained times
By Habib C. Malik
Christians of the Middle East, whether free or captive to dhimmitude, have not readily identified with the travails...
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Autumn 2014
Why we keep getting the Middle East wrong
By Mordechai Kedar
Dr Mordechai Kedar spoke to a Fathom Forum in London in September 2014 about why so many Western...
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Autumn 2014
After Gaza: the case for Israeli unilateralism
By Paul Gross
If the status quo is unsustainable and the grounds for a negotiated agreement are absent, at least for...
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Autumn 2014
Palestinian politics after the Gaza conflict: Ben Cohen interviews David Pollock
By Ben Cohen
Where is Palestinian politics going? Fathom advisory editor Ben Cohen talked to David Pollock. Hamas ‘It's not unreasonable...
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Autumn 2014
Shlomo Brom | Gaza Symposium: Reconstruction for Demilitarisation?
By Shlomo Brom
Part 1 Part 2 Toby Greene: We have been interviewing a number of analysts over the last few...
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Summer 2014
America’s Global Dilemma
By Ben Cohen
‘Reset,’ ‘Pivot,’ ‘Leading from Behind,’ ‘Red Lines,’ – the catchphrases of President Obama’s foreign policy are now often...
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Spring 2014
Disaster in the Levant: the Syrian Civil War in its fourth year
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer is one of the few policy experts to regularly visit the front lines in Syria. In...
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Spring 2014
The ISIS-Kurdish War
By Jonathan Spyer
Jonathan Spyer, a Middle East analyst, author and journalist specialising in the areas of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria...
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Summer 2014
The Journey of the Kurds
By Gary Kent
The journey of Iraqi Kurdistan from dictatorship to democracy has been remarkable. Gary Kent reports on the transformation...
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Spring 2014
The Geneva deal and Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions
By Ben Cohen
Amid the fanfare about the interim agreement reached in Geneva in November 2013 over Iran’s nuclear programme –...
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Winter 2014
Christianophobia: an interview with Rupert Shortt
By Rupert Shortt
Rupert Shortt is the author of Christianophobia: A Faith Under Attack and religion editor of the Times Literary...
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Autumn 2013
Hezbollah as a Criminal Organisation
By Matthew Levitt
The radical Shiite Lebanese organisation Hezbollah may be best known for its armed activities, but it also runs...
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Autumn 2013
Book Review: The Muslim Brotherhood: From Opposition to Power
By Eric Trager
In the decade following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Western analysts’ search for a ‘moderate Islamist’ alternative to Al-Qaeda...
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Summer 2013
‘We should still be prepared to intervene’: Richard Perle on George W. Bush, Barack Obama and the Arab Spring
By Alan Mendoza
One of the leading neoconservative intellectuals of the last half century, Richard Perle was Assistant Secretary of Defense...
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Summer 2013
Turkey and Israel: the limits to rapprochement
By Shashank Joshi
Ties between the two countries will be repaired, but not restored anytime soon. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...
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Summer 2013
Head to Head: Yossi Beilin and Ephraim Sneh on the Iranian nuclear threat
By Yossi Beilin and Ephraim Sneh
Israeli policy makers across the political spectrum agree that Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be a major...
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Spring 2013
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: an interview with Emanuele Ottolenghi
By Emanuele Ottolenghi
Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. His most recent book,...
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Spring 2013
The Syrian civil war
By Jonathan Spyer
The end of the Assad regime will probably not mark the end of the civil war but a...
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Spring 2013
No blank cheques: Morsi and Hamas
By Benedetta Berti
Relations between Egypt and Hamas have improved under Morsi. But he has issued no blank cheque and continuity...
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Spring 2013
Israel’s economy: the in-tray
By Alex Brummer
From reforming the banks to the crisis in the Eurozone, from increasing Haredi employment to reducing social inequality,...
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Spring 2013
To stop Iran, all options must (really) be on the table
By Emily B. Landau
The international community must now play hardball with Iran. Only escalating sanctions and a credible military threat can...
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Winter 2013
Israel’s new strategic environment
By Asher Susser
Israel used to fear the potential of Arab power. Now it must be wary of the fallout from...
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Winter 2013
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