Although India recognized Israel as the 54th UN member in 1949, it opposed granting full UN membership to Israel on the grounds that the Jewish state had been established through war rather than negotiation
Some dates go down in history as unprecedented and unanticipated developments usher in often unexpected and unannounced outcomes. Moreover, wars and their impacts are not unconnected or limited to a particular geography.
Whether it is Trump’s diktat to Bibi to finish the job before re-entering the White House or Biden-Blinken persistence that finally paid off—the fact is that peace should always be a more desirable enterprise than starting a factory of war
One year after the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas, the world watches as the aftermath continues to unfold—an unprecedented conflict marked by destruction, displacement, and a stark failure of diplomacy. Gaza lies in ruins, Israel mourns its losses, and the prospect of peace seems more elusive than ever.
The untimely death of President Ebrahim Raisi has caused a leadership vacuum, as he was mostly slated to succeed the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamanei, who is 85 and is said to be ailing.
If Rafah, which Netanyahu calls the last bastion of Hamas, is fully invaded amid large-scale casualties, then the region may not see peace for years to come.
From Iran's perspective, Israel breached a critical threshold by attacking its diplomatic mission, which Tehran deemed its sovereign territory.
The latest escalation between Israel and Iran marks a significant change in the adversarial relationship between the two antagonists. Not since the first Persian Gulf War of 1990-91, when the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein struck Israel with SCUD missiles, have the Israelis been subjected to a missile attack on the scale the Iranians executed. Tehran’s most recent salvo involved a combination of drones and missiles. The missile barrage consisted of a mixture of cruise and ballistic missiles. Israel’s missile defences intercepted an estimated 331 missiles launched by the Iranians.