Global Islamism Monitor No. 123
The Kremlin comes around on the Taliban;
Syria's crisis equals new opportunities for the Islamic state;
UNWRA has a radicalism problem
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Global Islamism Monitor No. 122
Cairo's kindler, gentler textbooks;
Hezbollah lives to fight another day;
ISKP takes a dim view of Hamas
Global Islamism Monitor No. 121
Australia faces fresh extremist threats;
Morocco takes a stand on ties with Israel;
A fatwa against Hamas;
Libya tightens social control;
Baghdad aims to lower age of consent
Trump’s Israel Policy Offers Promise And Peril
President-elect Trump will likely transform U.S.-Israeli relations — and U.S. relations across the Middle East — by providing more military and diplomatic support for Israel, working to weaken Israel’s adversaries and pursuing more Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
What Tehran May Do Next
The campaign of terror carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, succeeded in denting Israel's aura of military invincibility, while the resulting conflict in Gaza helped isolate Jerusalem on the world stage. Israel's normalization with the Gulf States, which had started to profoundly marginalize the Islamic Republic, also seemed to be a casualty of the new war. Meanwhile, timid American regional policy, and the Biden administration's overriding fear of a wider Mideast war, led to a persistent failure on Washington's part to hold Tehran accountable for its regional troublemaking.