Open Dialogue Research Journal
The growing Israeli-Turkish rivalry might soon expand to Jordan. Turkiye, Syria, and Jordan signed a trilateral MoU in early April on transport cooperation that followed their meeting more than half a year prior last September where they first committed to reviving the Hejaz Railway. This late-Ottoman project connected Istanbul with Medina and Mecca but […]
The aggression of the United States and Israel against Iran has opened the veil of the metaphysical dimension of the conflict – the contours of religious beliefs, more precisely, the clash of metaphysical doctrines and ideas, have clearly emerged in it. And although each side points out that it is […]
For more than two years, one of the most bitterly contested aspects of Israel’s war on Gaza has been the question of numbers: how many people have actually died. Israel’s government, its military, and a wide network of allies and advocates repeatedly cast doubt on the figures published by Gaza’s […]
Part I Even beyond personnel disputes, Israel has taken concrete steps to prevent the NCAG from operating. Committee chair Ali Shaath was detained for hours at the Allenby Crossing while traveling to the committee’s first meeting. Other members were blocked entirely. Israel has refused to allow the NCAG to employ […]
When phase two of the Gaza ceasefire was announced in mid-January, it was framed as a tentative but historic transition: from raw military devastation toward governance, reconstruction, and the possibility of a post-war political order. At the heart of this phase stood the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza […]
The recent leak of a draft resolution proposing the creation of a “Board of Peace” for Gaza has exposed a remarkable intersection of diplomacy, power projection, and strategic influence. According to the draft, the United States would take a leading role in administering Gaza through a centralized board, headed by […]
Israel is preparing to start construction next month on a bypass road through the heart of the occupied West Bank, a move critics say will further fragment Palestinian territory and entrench the de facto annexation of an area vital to the viability of a future Palestinian state. The bypass is […]
Putin might accept Trump’s invitation to participate in order to avoid offending him and not lose a seat at the table where members provide input on US policy towards settling various conflicts. Kremlin spokesmen Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the US invited Putin to join the Board of Peace, which refers to the UNSC-endorsed […]
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace overseeing the reconstruction of Gaza was always going to raise a host of niggling questions. From the outset, the US President made it clear he would be the helmsman of what was essentially an outfit of selected corporate overseers tilling the soil for The Donald’s […]
What matters peace if it permits killing, maiming and destroying the infrastructure of a society supposedly once at war? This is the situation facing Gaza as the occupying Israeli forces go about their business making the Strip even more uninhabitable for the Palestinian residents, ensuring that that land will be […]
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