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Yossi Mekelberg

Yossi Mekelberg

Yossi Mekelberg is professor of international relations at Regent’s University London, where he is head of the International Relations and Social Sciences Program. He is also an associate fellow of the MENA Program at Chatham House. He is a regular contributor to the international written and electronic media.

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Instability is the sign of an emerging nonpolar world

04 Feb 2026

Palestinian citizens of Israel: Between criminals and the criminally negligent

01 Feb 2026

Demolishing UNRWA headquarters an act of folly and weakness

14 Jan 2026

The Netanyahu government of deception and deflection

11 Jan 2026

Netanyahu goes to Mar-a-Lago

06 Jan 2026

Israeli settlement expansion in the Palestinian territories

21 Dec 2025

Instability is the sign of an emerging nonpolar world

30 Nov 2025

UN road map for Gaza is littered with uncertainty

09 Nov 2025

Israel is still counting the cost of Rabin’s murder

02 Nov 2025

Israeli attacks on UNRWA are an attempt to deflect failures

19 Oct 2025

Lessons must be learned from lethal ceasefire delays

12 Oct 2025

Two years of sheer hell, and it is not finished

07 Oct 2025

End of the war in Gaza still far from guaranteed

28 Sep 2025

Netanyahu’s ‘super-Sparta’ dystopian vision for Israel

23 Sep 2025

Could Netanyahu be the unlikely catalyst of a two-state solution?

21 Sep 2025

Israel under Netanyahu has no red lines

14 Sep 2025

The rift within Israel is unprecedented

31 Aug 2025

Ehud Olmert did indeed speak very frankly

24 Aug 2025

A tale of two summits

17 Aug 2025

Israel is moving one (big) step closer to annexing Gaza

09 Aug 2025

Statehood offers a brighter future for Palestinians — and Israelis

06 Aug 2025

Is a desperate Netanyahu plotting an early election?

27 Jul 2025

‘Humanitarian city’ and ‘voluntary migration’ are inhumane and involuntary

20 Jul 2025

Support for Palestinian statehood gathers momentum

02 Jul 2025

Ensuring the Middle East becomes a WMD-free zone

29 Jun 2025

Missile exchanges may have ended — but questions remain

15 Jun 2025

The enemy of my enemy could be my enemy as well

11 Jun 2025

Two-state solution summit should be bold and daring

08 Jun 2025

This Israeli government thrives on provoking the global community

01 Jun 2025

Israel stands condemned, but why has it taken so long?

21 May 2025

Depriving Gaza of aid is immoral and counterproductive

11 May 2025

Israel’s front with Syria might prove to be one of many

04 May 2025

Remembering the victims of war is a first step toward peace

20 Apr 2025

Israeli army is more divided than ever

06 Apr 2025

A watershed moment in Israel-Lebanon ties

02 Apr 2025

Time for Israeli opposition to show its mettle

30 Mar 2025

A sad week for Israeli democracy

23 Mar 2025

Netanyahu and the sacking of the Shin Bet chief

19 Mar 2025

Palestinians’ lives blocked by checkpoints

16 Mar 2025

No other land, no other truth

11 Mar 2025

Time for Netanyahu to launch a full Oct. 7 inquiry

09 Mar 2025

West Bank must not become another Gaza

23 Feb 2025

First step toward a balance between society and technology

16 Feb 2025

Netanyahu loves presents and he got one while visiting Washington

09 Feb 2025

Call it what it is — forced displacement, not relocation

02 Feb 2025

Palestinian Authority stands at a crossroads

29 Jan 2025

Trump has a long list of axes to grind

19 Jan 2025

How a weak opposition kept Netanyahu in power

05 Jan 2025

Israel needs to know the truth about Oct. 7 catastrophe

02 Jan 2025

The case for optimism in 2025

21 Dec 2024

Somehow, Gaza’s suffering increased in 2024

15 Dec 2024

Defeating Hamas has become secondary to annexation of Gaza

08 Dec 2024

Lebanon ceasefire: Back to the future, but is it a better one?

01 Dec 2024

Netanyahu has only himself to blame for ICC arrest warrant

24 Nov 2024

Netanyahu even more dangerous as corruption trial nears

17 Nov 2024

Who needs gatekeepers if Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir are in charge?

10 Nov 2024

Just when we thought Netanyahu could sink no lower, he does

27 Oct 2024

Sinwar’s killing should end the bloodshed

20 Oct 2024

Is Israel getting itself into another Lebanese quagmire?

16 Oct 2024

UK takes one step forward in relations with Global South

13 Oct 2024

Iran and Israel march into the unknown

07 Oct 2024

A year to forget that cannot be forgotten

11 Sep 2024

Jewish terrorism is undermining Israel

01 Sep 2024

Do Israel and Hamas really want to end the conflict?

04 Aug 2024

UK’s new Labour govt and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

25 Jul 2024

Creating a home for peace and coexistence

03 Jul 2024

Israeli government’s telling ties with Europe’s far right

30 Jun 2024

Can we envision a world without nuclear weapons?

12 Jun 2024

Russian assets might tip the balance in favor of Ukraine

14 May 2024

The toxicity of modern politics deters the young

12 May 2024

The right to protest is sacrosanct but not all methods of doing so are legitimate

08 May 2024

Palestine is a state waiting to be recognized

10 Apr 2024

Does Israel’s behavior make an arms ban inevitable?

31 Mar 2024

At last, a UN Security Council Resolution over Gaza, but what’s next?

24 Mar 2024

Netanyahu’s Israel is fast losing its American friends

17 Mar 2024

US floating port in Gaza might serve important purpose

03 Mar 2024

Netanyahu’s day after plan is the same as the day before, but worse

25 Feb 2024

Munich conference confirmed where the world stands and it was not good news

18 Feb 2024

Western governments must not ignore unprecedented warnings from their civil servants

07 Feb 2024

Cutting off UNRWA funding is immoral and damaging

04 Feb 2024

Could the UK lead the way in breaking the peace process impasse?

28 Jan 2024

Netanyahu represents the bottleneck that is choking Israeli politics

21 Jan 2024

Israel facing the ICJ is the country’s lowest point in history

03 Dec 2023

What are the chances of a permanent ceasefire?

23 Oct 2023

Demonizing and dehumanizing in war legitimizes atrocities

06 Sep 2023

The methods of occupation are trickling back into Israel

30 Aug 2023

There is no ‘military coup’ in Israel, just civilians defending their democracy

09 Aug 2023

Are smartphones dumbing down education?

06 Aug 2023

Climate change requires true leadership, not party-political point-scoring

28 Jul 2023

Book burning must be banished from political discourse

29 Jun 2023

Israelis must recognize Palestinian citizens as true equals

31 May 2023

Israel’s war on Gaza: Collateral damage by name, murder by nature

16 Apr 2023

Handing a militia to Ben-Gvir is one step closer to the abyss

12 Apr 2023

President Biden is turning the heat on Netanyahu

05 Apr 2023

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now more dangerous than ever

19 Feb 2023

The tragedy of the earthquake and the power of humanity

19 Jan 2023

Smotrich’s new role brings Israel closer to annexation

16 Jan 2023

New Israeli government wastes no time in provoking Palestinians

20 Dec 2022

How Netanyahu has created a far-right monster

11 Dec 2022

Netanyahu’s far-right government tests US-Israeli relations

16 Oct 2022

A truly historic moment in the topsy-turvy relationship between Israel and Lebanon

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