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David Powell

David Powell

David Powell worked for 20 years as a journalist in pan-Arab television news, including BBC Arabic and MBC. He is now an analyst of Middle East affairs specializing in media and Islamist movements.

Why Netanyahu is calling for an end to US military aid to Israel 

The US has supplied arms to Israel since the early 1960s. But it was only in the late 1970s – following the October/Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the subsequent Egypt-Israel peace treaty of 1979 – that......

 Israeli opposition parties unite to fight forthcoming election 

This year is an election year in Israel, giving voters a chance to pass judgement on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing coalition government for the first time since the Hamas......

 US arm twisting bears fruit in Lebanon

When the Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors to the US – Nada Hamadeh Moawad and Yechiel Leiter - held their unprecedented meeting at the State Department in Washington on April 14, US officials were......

 Why Israel will not intervene to overthrow the Iranian regime

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spent his political career warning that the Islamic Republic of Iran presents the greatest menace not only to his country, but to the region and the world......

 Can the Gaza ceasefire lead to real peace?

When US President Donald Trump addressed the Israeli parliament on October 13 – as the remaining living hostages were returning to Israel and Palestinian prisoners were being released from Israeli......

 Netanyahu’s missing political vision

The decision by the Israeli security cabinet to approve Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal for the Israeli army to take over Gaza City, home to around 800,000 Palestinians, has produced......

 Israel aims to force nuclear recalculation – not regime change

When Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced the launch of his country’s surprise attack on Iran on June 13, he set out the principal reasons: The discovery – confirmed by the International Atomic......

 Is there really a growing rift between the US and Israel?

There was shock in Israel on May 4 when a missile, launched by the Houthis from Yemen, managed to evade the country’s air defences and hit Ben Gurion airport. The attack injured several civilians and......