Author: Anil Trigunayat

Even before US President Donald Trump took over the White House for the second time, he had ensured a ceasefire in the two-year-old Israel-Hamas war. Since, for the incoming president, it was tactical to please both his friend, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, and Hamas went back on the ceasefire as quickly as they had agreed to it. Since then, Trump has been working on adding, sometimes artificially, the closure of various wars and conflicts, however tenuous and temporary that peace may be, to his famous list of seven or eight, to legitimise his claims for a Nobel Peace Prize à…

The Middle East has suffered from volatility and security concerns for decades. There have been deep-seated rivalries that have manifested repeatedly, but the root causes remain unresolved, despite the Saudi-Iran and other Sunni countries’ rapprochement. Similarly, the Abraham Accords were intended to expand Israel’s diplomatic outreach in the region and bolster its security. This, in turn, was meant to free the United States, its sole security guarantor, to concentrate on more pressing priorities in the Indo-Pacific and the Eurasian war; however, the accords have failed to address the underlying issues. But the Middle East has an uncanny ability to draw…