Stormy waters: Israel and Lebanon negotiate their maritime border

MENASource Jun 24, 2025

Dispatch from the Gulf: Finding middle ground amid Israel-Iran war

By Allison Minor

Congressional delegation visit coincided with Israel and Iran squaring off in a direct military confrontation.
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Stormy waters: Israel and Lebanon negotiate their maritime border

MENASource Jun 18, 2025

Dispatch from Jerusalem: Inside Israel’s bunkers as Iran war erupts

By Sarah Zaaimi

The stakes are higher as two opposing rhetorics about the region’s future are at play: Pan-Abrahamism and Revolutionary Islamism.
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Stormy waters: Israel and Lebanon negotiate their maritime border

Inflection Points Jun 14, 2025

Israel’s Iran strike provides a historic chance for Middle East realignment

By Frederick Kempe

History will remember this moment less for the Israeli strikes themselves and more for what follows.
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Nov 20, 2020

Stormy waters: Israel and Lebanon negotiate their maritime border

By Udi Evental

After a decade of United States-led mediation, on October 14, delegations on behalf of Israel and Lebanon entered negotiations on the demarcation of their disputed maritime borderline.

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In the News

Nov 12, 2020

Fontenrose quoted in The Times of Israel on US-MENA policy in the final days of the Trump administration
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In the News

Nov 11, 2020

Lipner quoted in the Washington Post on Biden’s US-Israel policy
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In the News

Nov 9, 2020

Lipner quoted in Foreign Policy on the the US presidential election
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In the News

Nov 6, 2020

Lipner in Foreign Policy: Is Biden Bad News for Bibi?
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In the News

Nov 4, 2020

Lipner quoted in Forward on US-Israel relations in light of the 2020 election
Elections Israel

In the News

Nov 3, 2020

Lipner in Foreign Policy: Has Trump Been Good for Israel?
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MENASource

Nov 2, 2020

25 years after Rabin’s assassination and Israel resembles its old self

By Shalom Lipner

Much has changed in the world since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, but striking parallels might also be drawn—counter-intuitively, perhaps—between Israel's circumstances around the time of Rabin's death and the prevailing situation in the country today.

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In the News

Oct 30, 2020

Ferziger in Foreign Policy: The UAE’s Invisible Palestinian Hand
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Oct 30, 2020

Lipner in the National Interest: Donald Trump’s Fire-Sale of International Peace Agreements
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