/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1865/all en /newsroom/channels/news/experts-escalating-violence-between-israelis-and-palestinians-331055 <p>Israel hit three multi-storey towers as it hammered the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, and militants in the territory fired barrages of rockets at Israel, in the most severe outbreak of violence since the 2014 Gaza war, with no resolution in sight. The fighting has taken on many hallmarks of that devastating 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, but with a startling new factor: large, heated protests by Israeli Arabs in support of those living in the territories as well as counter-violence by Jewish Israelis.</p> Thu, 13 May 2021 19:51:15 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 265175 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-israel-and-iran-trade-fire-287155 <p>Iran says it is ready to restart its nuclear program on an "industrial scale" in the wake of the decision by US President Donald Trump to abandon the deal that curbs the country's nuclear ambitions. (source <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/11/middleeast/iran-israel-syria-intl/index.html">CNN</a>)</p> <p> </p> Fri, 11 May 2018 18:52:26 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 39875 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-israel-whats-happening-two-state-solution-266440 <p>"Palestinians reacted with anger and bafflement on Wednesday after the Trump administration apparently backed away from insisting that having two states — one for Israelis, one for Palestinians — was the only viable solution to the decades-long Middle East conflict." (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/middleeast/trump-israel-two-state-solution.html">New York Times</a>)</p> <blockquote> <p><em>"The peace process has been moribund. Trump and Netanyahu have shaken it up but the implications are hard to anticipate."</em><br /> ​—Harold Waller</p></blockquote> Thu, 16 Feb 2017 20:01:18 +0000 vincent.allaire@mcgill.ca 26721 at /newsroom /newsroom/laila-parsons Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23204 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/iran-nuclear-deal-july-14-253951 <p> Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:04:23 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 24324 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/jewish-emigration-europe-243028 Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:46:13 +0000 raphael.larocque-cyr@mcgill.ca 22135 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-expert-gaza-conflict-237529 Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:14:34 +0000 raphael.larocque-cyr@mcgill.ca 20972 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-partner-israeli-research-institutions-218101 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:39:28 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 11847 at /newsroom