Arab world

Hamas economy expert: Lindsey Graham's warning exposes gap between Arab rhetoric and reality

Ofer emphasized that Graham’s remarks represent a sharp shift in the usual approach to dealing with Arab states.

|ByPELED ARBELI
US Senator Lindsey Graham speaks after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon August 26, 2025.
Tsofen encourages the establishment and development of hi-tech centers in major Arab cities and communities.

Israel's hi-tech paradox: Record degrees, stagnant employment for Arab graduates - opinion

While the academic system has succeeded in producing a new, educated generation of young Arabs, the labor market itself remains largely closed to them.

|ByMAISAM JALJULI, MIRAV BOAZ
THE KIND OF of strategic alliance that Israel is nurturing in Somaliland already emerged last year, when Somaliland signed a deal with Ethiopia, leasing to its landlocked neighbor a 20-km. coastal strip for a naval base.

Middle Israel: Sleeping with Somaliland is good, waltzing with it is bad - opinion

Israel’s recognition this week of Somaliland – a self-declared country in northeast Africa – is part of a time-honored legacy with its fair share of foresight and risk.

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Children study in a school in Egypt. Children in the Arab world do not learn why millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust or why the experience continues to shape modern Israeli fears.

Teaching the Holocaust in the Arab world requires confronting decades of miseducation - analysis

Denial, media incitement, and politicized education continue to block historical truth – and any path to coexistence

|ByNAJWA ALSAEED

The UK’s inaction on Islamist radicalism Is a crisis for Israel and the West - opinion

The UK must abandon the dangerous belief that critiques of radical Islamist ideology equate to Islamophobia, instead adopting the UAE’s clear stance to protect society from this threat.

MARCH 17, 2025ByCATHERINE PEREZ-SHAKDAM
AN ANTI-ISRAEL protest takes place outside a Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Chelsea, in Manchester, in February. A Henry Jackson Society poll shows that one-third of British Muslims want implementation of Sharia law in the UK.

An Arab shift on Gaza and Hamas - opinion

The Arab countries understand that for both Israel and the Trump administration, the removal of Hamas from power is a non-negotiable condition for moving forward. The onus is now on them.

MARCH 9, 2025ByYAARA SEGAL
PARTICIPANTS IN an emergency Arab summit to discuss Palestinian developments pose for a group photo, last week in Cairo. The Arab plan does not mention the need for Hamas to lay down its weapons and relinquish control over the Gaza Strip, much to the dismay of the US and Israel, says the writer.

Cairo summit: The Egyptian plan for Gaza and the roadblocks ahead

Arab League representatives gathered in Cairo to discuss an Egyptian-led reconstruction plan for Gaza, but regional divisions and a lack of security provisions complicate the plan’s prospects

MARCH 6, 2025ByGIORGIA VALENTE/THE MEDIA LINE
ARAB LEADERS pose for a photo ahead of an Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last year.

US and Hamas hold secret talks to free hostages, Eyal Zamir steps in as IDF chief

Israel slams Arab summit adoption of Egyptian Gaza plan • Nearly half of Israelis support advancing ceasefire negotiations, poll finds

MARCH 5, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and mourners attend the funeral of Al-Qassam fighters who were killed during the war between Israel and Hamas in the Al-Shati camp, in Gaza City, February 28, 2025.

Egypt unveils plan to reshape Gaza at Arab summit, sidelining Hamas

Israel is unlikely to oppose an Arab entity taking responsibility for Gaza's government if Hamas is off the scene, said a source familiar with the matter.

MARCH 4, 2025ByREUTERS
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty meets with Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa at the Al Tahrir palace to discuss details of the Gaza reconstruction plan, ahead of the emergency Arab summit organised by Egypt this week, in Cairo, Egypt March 3, 2025..

Syrian leader to visit Jordan on Wednesday, say Jordanian sources

The visit is the new interim leader's third foreign trip along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey since he came to power after leading a decisive rebel offensive which ousted Iran-backed Bashar al Assad.

FEBRUARY 24, 2025ByREUTERS
Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa attends a meeting with former rebel faction chiefs, in Damascus, Syria, December 24, 2024

Gaza plan requires Hamas removal, no forced relocation, Saudi officials say - report

A senior Egyptian official added: “The US administration has conveyed to Arab states that it is open to alternative plans regarding Gaza, beyond Trump’s initiative.”

FEBRUARY 20, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades seen in Khan Yunis, Gaza, February 20, 2025

Riyadh is the Arab world's new real leader - opinion

Egypt's demographic and economic challenges have weakened its position, creating a vacuum that has been filled by an increasingly assertive Saudi crown prince.

JANUARY 31, 2025ByELIE PODEH, ONN WINCKLER
FOREIGN MINISTERS and other delegates participating in a meeting on the future of Syria pose for a group photo, in Riyadh, earlier this month. Saudi Arabia has assumed a prominent role under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, say the writers.

Arab leaders talk big on Palestine—but where’s the real support? - editorial

The Jerusalem Post does not endorse removing the Palestinians from Gaza or forcibly transferring them. However, the question remains of what Israel’s Arab neighbors can do more to help.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
EGYPT’S PRESIDENT Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah at a summit on the Gaza war, last month in Cairo: Given the repercussions for key actors including Egypt and Jordan, the potential of an international peace conference after the war should be explored, the writer maintains.

Only one nation can help Syria recover: The Arabs - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The civil war’s victors wasted all six years in which they could have rebuilt the land they had destroyed.

DECEMBER 6, 2024ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
RESIDENTS OF Aleppo, Syria, line up to receive bread on Tuesday.