Dr. James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, co-director of the University of Würzburg’s Institute for Fan Culture, and co-host of the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies podcast. James is the author of The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer blog, a book with the same title as well as Comparative Political Transitions between Southeast Asia and the Middle East and North Africa, co-authored with Dr. Teresita Cruz-Del Rosario and Shifting Sand ...
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Has Gaza's Year Of Carnage Changed Anything?
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Since October 2023, with the support of the US and other Western allies, Israel responded to the October 7 attack with a campaign of aerial bombardment that devastated Gaza.The death toll is now well beyond 40,000 people, and there appears to be no end sight to the suffering. As the war widens and deepens across the region, questions of what will h…
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Iran’s Networked Defense Strategy Is A Double - Edged Sword
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Israel’s killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has turned Iran’s asymmetric forward defense strategy into a double-edged sword.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Backchat discusses the latest developments in the Middle East, following the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon and Iran's launch of over 100 missiles at Israel with James M. Dorsey, Kenneth Houston, and Dov Levin.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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James discusses on CGTN the potential fallout of Iran's missile attack on Israel.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Iran's Missile Strike Fires Up Tensions BFM 02 Oct 2024
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Iran's missile attack on Israel, involving nearly 200 projectiles, significantly escalates tensions in the Middle East. Despite most missiles being intercepted, the incident highlights the region's precarious security amid ongoing conflicts and a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. For insights, BFM 89.9 speaks to James M. Dorsey, adjunct Senior…
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Will Hezbollah Crumble Without Nasrallah
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Israel has killed the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in a targeted bombing attack on Beirut. Many of Hezbollah's weapons caches have also been destroyed. An estimated 1000 people have been killed over the past two weeks and up to one million people may be internally displaced across Lebanon. Will this coordinated attack finally mean the end…
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Israel’s Killing Of Hezbollah Leader Is Unlikely To Shift The Paradigm Of Middle East Politics
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is likely to discover that the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah will not shift the paradigm of Middle East politics.It’s a lesson Mr. Netanyahu should have drawn from decades of Israeli targeted assassinations.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Iranian President Floats Rare Israeli Trial Balloon
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It will take a lot more to convince Israel and its supporters that newly elected Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian means business and can deliver on his proposal to dial down tensions between the two countries.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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On his weekly Middle East Report show on Radio Islam International, James M. Dorsey discusses Iran’s charm offensive at the United Nations, the war between Israel and Hezbollah, and a US-French-led effort to secure a ceasefire in Lebanon.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Israel - Hezbollah: Serious Repercussions For The Region
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Israel has signalled it is ready to invade Lebanon following weeks of intense bombardment, ostensible against Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has responded with rocket attacks which were mostly intercepted by Israel's defences. Dr James M. Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, shares insights into how the c…
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Middle East Tensions Escalate as Israel and Hezbollah Battle It Out
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Israel has signalled it is ready to invade Lebanon following weeks of intense bombardment, ostensible against Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah has responded with rocket attacks which were mostly intercepted by Israel's defences. Dr James M. Dorsey, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, shares insights into how the c…
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Saudi Gas Investments - A Marriage Of Economic And Geopolitics
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A Saudi push to become a major natural gas player is as much about diversifying the kingdom’s domestic consumption and export mix as it is about cementing Saudi Arabia as a global geopolitical, economic, and energy player.It also is about capitalizing on harsh US economic sanctions against Iran designed to force a change in the Islamic Republic’s p…
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Two Top Hezbollah Commanders Killed In Israeli Strike On Beirut TRT 21Sep2024
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Months of cross-border exchanges have forced thousands of people to evacuate areas along the Lebanon's southern border. James M. Dorsey, an adjunct senior fellow at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies explains, escalating tensions between Hezbollah and Israel have increased discontent among the country's citizens.…
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Mass Electronic Device Attacks In Lebanon Backchat 20Sep2024
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James M. Dorsey discusses on Backchat with Steve Vickers and Daniel Marwecki what escalating tensions between Israel and the Iranian-backed Shiite militia Hezbollah mean for the Middle East.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Hezbollah's Exploding Communications Devices Put Middle East on Edge
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James M. Dorsey discusses on Radio Islam the fallout of a massive attack on Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah's communications infrastructure.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Does The US Have Any Leverage On Israel - Hezbollah Tensions
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James M. Dorsey, adjunct senior fellow at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, weighs in on Israel-Hezbollah tensions following the deadly pager blasts in Lebanon, and considers whether Washington has any leverage to prevent the conflict spiralling out of control.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Netanyahu, Iran, And Iranian - Backed Groups Walk Tightly Spun Tripwire
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Iran and its Arab allies may not want an out Middle East war, but that has not stopped them from increasingly engaging Israel on multiple fronts.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Subtle US Messages Fall On Netanyahu And Israel’s Deaf Ears
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A US decision to dial back its reinforced military presence in the Middle East suggests that America’s commitment to defend Israel could be less ironclad than the Biden administration would like the world to believe.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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For Israel Losing The Battle For Hearts And Minds Is Worse Than Failing To Defeat Hamas
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Israel hasn’t just lost the battle for hearts and minds in much of the world, including significant constituencies in Western countries.It has scored a significant own goal that has rendered it all but impossible to achieve a key element of Israel’s quest for Middle Eastern and Muslim recognition.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Netanyahu And Hamas Share Disregard For Israeli And Palestinian Lives
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Let’s be clear. Hamas’ alleged execution of six Israeli hostages constitutes a war crime.The hostages were killed in line with new Hamas guidelines that violate international law on how guards should handle hostages if Israeli forces approached their hideoutsEven so, the guidelines have proven to be a powerful tool in the struggle to achieve a Gaza…
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What Could The US Do To Pressure Netanyahu On Gaza Ceasefire Deal TRT 05092024
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James M. Dorsey, senior fellow at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies talks to TRT World about Gaza ceasefire negotiations and unpacks what Washington could do to bring Israel to the negotiation table.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Jockeying For Position In Post - War Gaza
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and onetime Palestinian foreign minister Nasser Al-Kidwa have put forward a proposal designed to keep a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict alive.The proposal caters to Palestinian national aspirations as well as Israeli efforts to groom a Palestinian leadership that is not tied to Hamas …
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US Anti - Settler Sanctions Barely Scratch The Surface
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This week’s US sanctioning of an Israeli-government-backed vigilante settler group constitutes a weak shot across Israel’s bow as the United States and Europe mull also sanctioning ultra-nationalist members of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Middle East Report 30 August 2024Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Binyamin Netanyahu Is As Much An Ideologue As He Is An Opportunist
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A recent evolution in critics’ thinking about Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s drivers suggests that he is motivated as much by ultra-nationalist ideology as by political opportunism.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Israel Planes Strike Targets In Lebanon And Hezbollah Responds
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James M. Dorsey tells TRT World that the escalating hostilities raise more questions than they provides answers.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Escalating Middle East Tensions Raise Multiple Questions
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Sunday’s escalation of hostilities along the Israeli-Lebanese border raises more questions than it provides answers.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to continue the Gaza war extends beyond personal political survival and legal concerns, says Dr James M. Dorsey in an interview with Radio Islam.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Multiple Time Bombs Likely To Threaten A Gaza Ceasefire From Day One
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Gaza’s desperately needed but increasingly elusive ceasefire, if achieved, is likely to be fragile, threatened by multiple ticking time bombs that could explode at any given moment unless it is embedded in a political process that culminates with the creation of an independent Palestinian state.The time bombs are ticking with or without a ceasefire…
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US Mulls Confronting Netanyahu If Gaza Ceasefire Talks Falter
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US, Egyptian, and Qatari mediators appear optimistic after two days of Gaza ceasefire talks. Even so, US officials are considering confronting Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu publicly should the talks ultimately fail.Long frustrated with Mr. Netanyahu's refusal to heed US advice, President Joe Biden is considering shelving his bear hug approach f…
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Is There A Genuine Willingness From Israel To End Hostilities In Gaza TRT 16082024
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James M. Dorsey, adjunct senior fellow at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies talks to TRT World about the latest round of Gaza ceasefire talks in Doha and the prospects of a lasting truce in Israel’s war on Gaza.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Ultra - Nationalists Provoke As Netanyahu’s Ceasefire Tightrope Wobbles
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When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir stormed the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif with up to 3,000 of his singing, dancing, and praying ultra-nationalist religious followers, he didn’t just target the site holy to Jews and Muslims.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Israel’s Reputational Self - Immolation
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Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski’s warning in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation seemed overstated at the time. However, looking back, Mr. Brzezinski’s warning rings prophetic.…
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Looking Beyond The Fog Of War To Imagine Future Israeli - Palestinian Peace Negotiations
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Five decades ago, Nayef Hawatmeh, an aging left-wing guerrilla leader, created a template for a dialogue between Israel and the Palestinian resistance that has lessons for today’s warring parties.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Will Hamas Agree To A Ceasefire Talks With Israel After Haniyeh Assassination
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Qatar, Egypt, and the US have called on Israel and Hamas to resume talks to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as Israel’s assault on Gaza continues. James N. Dorsey from Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies unpacks whether there will be any breakthrough in these talks.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Assassinating Hamas Leaders Scores Points But Is Unlikely To Produce Victory
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The killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is about more than Israel’s targeting of the group’s officials whenever and wherever an opportunity arises.Mr. Haniyeh was known as a ‘pragmatist’ and a ‘moderate’ within Hamas. His killing was as much about achieving Israel’s goal of destroying Hamas militarily and politically as it was about quashing any…
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Intellectual Honesty In Israel & Palestine Produces Radically Different Outcomes
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Intellectual honesty is a rare commodity in the divide between Israelis and Palestinians.It is even rarer with the rise of Jewish ultra-nationalism and a generation of Israelis and Palestinians nurtured on prejudiced, biased, and often supremacist perceptions of the other.The irony is that historically, it was far-right militants, and currently, it…
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Can Israel Afford To Fight Effectively On Multiple Fronts TRT 05082024
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Washington sends more military hardware to the region in anticipation of retaliatory attacks against Israel. Iran's president says the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran will not unpunished, with US intelligence suggesting an attack on Israel could happen within 24 to 48 hours. James M. Dorsey, adjunct senior fellow at Singapore's S Rajaratn…
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Behind The Lines with Arthur SnellSeason 2, Ep. 28•Friday, August 2, 2024James M. Dorsey is a writer and journalist and author of the new book The Battle for the Soul of Islam - Defining the Muslim Faith in the 21st Century, published by Macmillan.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Middle East Report With James M. Dorsey 02082024
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Israeli forces have raided Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank following an airstrike on a car that killed at least five people, including Hamas military leader Haitham Balidi. In response, the US Pentagon announced the deployment of additional jet fighters and warships to the region, anticipating possible Iranian retaliation for the assassination o…
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Middle East Escalation Gaza And The Evolution With Lebanon And Iran
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The session will open with a wrap-up of where developments stand after the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukur in Beirut and Israel’s confirmation of the killing in mid-July of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif. The question: is How will Iran, Hezbollah, and other non-state Irani…
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Lost in the Middle Eastern fog of war is a struggle that is as much about geopolitics as it is about shaping future generations in a swath of land that stretches from the Gulf states and the Gaza battlefield to Houthi schools in Yemen and jihadist seminaries in Indonesia.It’s a rivalry of competing worldviews in textbooks designed to shape educatio…
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Saudi - UAE Notions Of Islam Are At The Core Of Israeli Thinking On Post - War Gaza
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is mulling a proposal for the post-war administration of Gaza that would put the battle to define moderate Islam in the 21st century on the front burner of Middle Eastern politics and allow the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to export their autocratic notion of ‘moderate’ Islam.…
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Gaza Is The One Thing Kamala Harris And Donald Trump Agree On
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US presidential candidates Kamal Harris and Donald J. Trump are at each other’s throats, but there is one thing they agree on: The Gaza war must end.It’s the one kind of agreement Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu didn’t want to hear within 24 hours of his address to the US Congress that was choreographed to project unbridled support for th…
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Netanyahu Goes to Washington w/ James Dorsey
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On this edition of Parallax Views, James M. Dorsey, whose commentaries can be read at his Turbulent World w/ James M. Dorsey Substack, give one of his regular visits to discuss the latest in regard to the Middle East and Israel/Palestine. This time we examine Israeli Prime Minister's visit to Washington D.C. where he gave a speech to Congress that …
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Netanyahu in the United States - JMD on Radio Islam
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday (Jul 24) addressed a United States Congress divided by the ongoing war in Gaza, as he attempted to drum up continued support for his country’s military campaign. James M. Dorsey, adjunct senior fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, gives Radio his assessment of Netanyahu’…
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Gulf Investment In European Soccer Becomes A Hot Potato
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Gulf investment in European soccer threatens to become a hot potato.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Tracing The Roots Of Israel’s Gaza War Strategy
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Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government is mulling a proposal for the post-war administration of Gaza that would put the battle to define moderate Islam in the 21st century on the front burner of Middle Eastern politics and allow the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia to export their autocratic notion of ‘moderate’ Islam.…
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Ignoring Ingrained Anti - Semitism, Israel Backs Global Far - Right
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This year, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli hit the road. Not to shore up Diaspora Jewish support for Israel’s war on Gaza or reassure Jews concerned about rising anti-Semitism but to forge closer ties to the global far-right tainted by its anti-Semitic roots.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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Israel’s Self - Declared Gaza Safe Zones Are Catch - 22 Death Traps
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Israel’s self-declared safe zones trap the Jewish state in the contradictions of its nine-month-long failed campaign to destroy Hamas. It’s one and one is two that Hamas operatives seek cover in such zones.Bởi James M. Dorsey
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