How did Iran become the sworn enemy of Israel and the United States, despite being allies of Iran’s Shah in the 1970s? A look at shifting geopolitics and war in a troubled region.

For more than forty years, Iran, Israel and the United States have been fighting a covert war. A look back at this long war which has brought hardship and choas to the Middle East. 

How did Iran become the sworn enemy of Israel and the United States, despite being allies of Iran’s Shah in the 1970s? A look at shifting geopolitics and war in a troubled region.

Benjamin Netanyahu is in coalition with far-right parties whose racist and violent discourses are poisoning Israeli politics

One year after the attack of 7th October 2023, Israeli filmmaker Ori Szternfeld reflects on the aftermath.

Women civilians in Israel are increasingly turning to gun ownership for security reasons.

The Iranian regime is under threat both from outside by the United States and Israel, and from inside: many Iranians want an end to authoritarianism. 

18 months after 7 October, Israeli society is still stuck in its hostage nightmare.

Focus on health care workers in Gaza and Israel who are trying to save lives in war.

Reports from international bodies document the torture and inhuman conditions inflicted on Palestinians held in Israeli detention.

With the UN concluding that Israel’s actions amount to genocide, how will this conflict ever end?

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been rivals in the Middle East. But with open war between Iran and Israel, is this the moment where Saudi Arabia cements its regional dominance?

On 27 September 2024, the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, and several senior members of the Shiite party were killed in Israeli strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Israeli soldiers film themselves celebrating the destruction of Gaza.

A vast majority of Spaniards support Palestine’s recognition; Spain defends Gaza openly.

The massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7th 2023 has profoundly affected Israeli society with attitudes hardening towards Palestinians.

Holocaust survivor Nelly Prezma is nearly 100 and lives with her family on a Kibbutz close to the Gaza strip.

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.

A glossy promotional video, created by the Israeli government, imagines an idyllic Gaza free of Hamas.

Hybrid warfare and new technologies are putting intelligence services under serious pressure worldwide.