Middle East Brief with Avi Kaner

Could Israeli politics be evolving beyond traditional religious and ethnic lines? Yoav Segalovitz, a Jewish Israeli, is reportedly considering joining Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party, led by an Arab Muslim Israeli. The...

هل القضية القانونية المتعلقة بمرتفعات الجولان بسيطة كما يتم تصويرها عادة؟ في هذه الحلقة من موجز الشرق الأوسط مع آفي كانر ، نعود إلى جذور النزاع: من انهيار الإمبراطورية العثمانية وتقسيم المنطقة بين بريطانيا وفرنسا، إلى...

The conventional argument about the Golan Heights sounds simple: Israel captured Syrian territory in 1967, extended Israeli law to it in 1981, and therefore its sovereignty violates international law. But the history is...

For nearly two decades, Gaza has endured a devastating cycle of war, destruction, reconstruction, and renewed conflict. Can that cycle finally be broken? In this episode of the Middle East Brief with Avi Kaner , Avi...

President Trump's proposed 30-year civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia is being viewed primarily as an energy and technology partnership. But could it also be laying the foundation for a much broader geopolitical...

For decades, understanding Iran was relatively straightforward. Ultimate authority rested with one man: the Supreme Leader. Today, that picture is far more complicated. In this episode of the Middle East Brief with Avi...

A Saudi-owned broadcaster. An Israeli president. A wide-ranging interview conducted in Jerusalem . Not long ago, this would have been unimaginable. In this episode of Middle East Brief with Avi Kaner , I examine why...

The amendment to eliminate U.S. security assistance to Israel failed decisively in the House of Representatives, 314–104 . But the real story isn't that it failed. It's who voted for it. For decades, support for Israel...

What if one of Israel's greatest enemies suddenly became part of a plan to reshape Iran? A remarkable report from The New York Times claims that Israel and the United States explored the possibility of former Iranian...

A few weeks ago, I introduced what I called "The Bazaar Strategy" - the idea that President Donald Trump's negotiating style mirrors the bargaining culture of a Middle Eastern marketplace: maximum pressure, strategic...

Nearly three years after the October 7 massacre, Israel still has not established a truly independent national commission of inquiry. Instead, the Knesset has advanced legislation to create a politically appointed...

On July 6, 1938, representatives from 32 nations gathered in Evian-les-Bains, France, to address the growing refugee crisis as Jews desperately sought to flee Nazi Germany and Austria. The world expressed sympathy. But...

For decades, hundreds of thousands of Israelis and Palestinians interacted every day - not across battle lines, but in workplaces. Before the First Intifada, nearly 40% of the Palestinian workforce in the West Bank and...

Israel and Lebanon have signed a historic framework agreement that could eventually end nearly eight decades of conflict. But what does the agreement actually say? In this episode of Middle East Brief with Avi Kaner...

For nearly eighty years, Israel stopped short of officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide, despite broad historical consensus that approximately 1.5 million Armenians were systematically murdered by the Ottoman...