Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is deeply flawed but it may be the best offer Hamas can expect
Julie M. Norman, UCL - The 20-point Gaza peace plan thrashed out under the leadership of the United States and agreed to by Israel is one of the most comprehensive outlines put forward...
The ‘Gaza Riviera’ is a fantasy plan that relies on urbicide and expulsion
Jonathan Silver, University of Sheffield - The US and Israel have sparked international condemnation over their leaked vision for the reconstruction of a shattered Gaza. The urban development plan seems to have evolved...
Middle Eastern countries are among the most exposed to climate change – so why is media coverage so low there?
Marianna Poberezhskaya, Nottingham Trent University; Imad El-Anis, Nottingham Trent University, and Marwa Mustafa, Nottingham Trent University The Middle East is experiencing a period of intense political and economic turbulence, with several countries in the region embroiled in conflict. These conflicts are taking place against the backdrop of an escalating climate crisis. In 2023, global thinktank the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace concluded that Middle Eastern countries “are among the world’s most exposed states to the accelerating impacts of human-caused climate change – including soaring heatwaves, declining precipitation, extended droughts, more intense sandstorms and floods, and rising sea levels”. The capacity of a society to receive, process and act upon climate-related information is...
Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is deeply flawed but it may be the best offer Hamas can expect
Julie M. Norman, UCL - The 20-point Gaza peace plan thrashed out under the leadership of the United States and agreed to by Israel...
Israel’s ‘refuseniks’: a growing number of soldiers are refusing to serve in Netanyahu’s war on Gaza
Leonie Fleischmann, City St George's, University of London The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has...
US and Israel push to end UN peacekeeping mandate in south Lebanon risks regional chaos
Vanessa Newby, Monash University and Chiara Ruffa, Sciences Po - The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) is seen by many as an essential peacekeeping buffer between Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah. But...
Trump’s Gaza peace plan: A bit of the old, a bit of the new – and the same stumbling blocks
Asher Kaufman, University of Notre Dame The latest U.S.-sponsored peace plan for the Middle East was unveiled at the White House on Sept. 29, 2025, and immediately accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The...
Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is deeply flawed but it may be the best offer Hamas can expect
Julie M. Norman, UCL - The 20-point Gaza peace plan thrashed out under the leadership of the United States...
