Open Dialogue Research Journal
Part I On settlements, Eisenkot’s position is mixed. He supports Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank but says it should be “legal” and serve national interests, a remark suggesting opposition to unauthorised outposts. He has criticised settler violence and opposed the government’s plans for the E1 bloc, which Western […]
For the past 10 months, Washington and Tehran trade threats, the world watches the nuclear talks and the real bill is being paid in Riyadh, Au Dhabi, and Doha. The six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are not direct parties to this fight, yet they are absorbing its economic shockwaves, […]
Presumptions of friendship and guarantees in international relations are never secure and rarely lasting. Even when they are given the stamp of firm endurance, a closer look will find greater benefits accruing to one party over the other. When one needs to persuade a weaker power into surrendering real estate […]
A pro-forma first meeting of the Abu Dhabi negotiations to end the war in Ukraine was held on November 10th, but the actual negotiations will start on November 11th. The following pertains to that negotiation if it will occur: “Russian Hardliners Will Shock Kushner and Witkoff” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUsEmVA_yw 10 November 2026 […]
A year ago, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, stood at the United Nations podium as a curiosity, a former jihadist commander whose lightning offensive had toppled a strong dynasty and whose diplomatic rehabilitation was still a tentative experiment. This very September, he returned to New York as a head of state whose country […]
European gas prices have climbed to their highest level in four years. On Monday, wholesale gas reached €97 per megawatt-hour as temperatures fell across the continent and traders priced in stronger demand for heating. The UK’s month-ahead contract rose 4% to 240p per therm, its highest since December 2022. The […]
Oil prices fell on Monday after surging last week to near six-month highs, as investors seized on signs that hostilities between the United States and Iran might ease. The move was small and the mood cautious. US West Texas Intermediate futures were down $1.76, or 1.7%, at $101.51 a barrel […]
The most consequential diplomatic meeting in the Middle East this year is unfolding not in a grand palace, but inside the fortified corridors of power in Tehran, and it comes with an expiration date measured in days, not months. On October 26, 2026, three of the region’s most powerful Sunni-majority […]
In a telephone interview on Fox News on the morning of November 3, President Donald Trump revealed that a deal had been struck with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to cease the annual provision of US$3.8 billion in military assistance after 2026. “We already agreed that by the end of […]
Oil flows from the Middle East have almost returned to the levels seen before the United States attacked Iran, an event that triggered one of the largest supply disruptions in history. On a simple reading, prices should have fallen back. They have not. Global crude remains above $100 a barrel, […]
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