Amid accelerating negotiations on a U.S. return to the nuclear deal, there was breaking news: Saudi Arabia was in talks with its sworn enemy, Iran. Then Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman went on TV to say the kingdom wanted a "positive relationship" with Tehran. James Snell digs into the desperation pushing Riyadh’s surprising pivot.

For Israel, the imminent nuclear deal is a critical moment. Former Mossad head Efraim Halevy joins the ex-head of military intelligence and Israel’s ex-deputy national security advisor call for the government to back the deal, prioritize the crucial relationship with America and stop trying to undermine the Biden administration.

Palestinian President Abbas appears likely to call off the elections that he himself called for, the first time in 14 years. Muhammed Shehada says this retreat from democracy is patronizing, unjust and dangerous.

Joint List MK Sami Abou Shahadeh describes the rising threat to Palestinians, both inside Israel’s 1967 borders and in the occupied territories, from far-right Jewish thugs emboldened by mentors in the Knesset.

The man who tortured and murdered Parisian Jewish pensioner Sarah Halimi, shouting antisemitic epithets while high on cannabis, has been deemed unfit to stand trial. Flora Cassen describes how the case has convulsed the French Jewish community, and what it signals about French society and its indifference toward violent antisemitism.

Every day the reports on India’s uncontrolled COVID outbreak grow more devastating. Mohammed Zeeshan accuses its "strongman" prime minister, Narendra Modi, of leading his country into a catastrophe of human suffering.