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March 28, 2024
Washington Fails — Again — To Gauge Iran’s Nuclear Threat
The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently issued its latest worldwide threat assessment but fell short — as it has for several years — in...
March 28, 2024
IDF raids in Gaza capture terrorists and uncover weapons
While much focus in Gaza has been on the IDF operation around Shifa hospital, Israeli units have continued to carry out raids in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis. This is important because it illustrates...
March 28, 2024
Houthis renew attacks in Red Sea after three day hiatus
After a three-day hiatus, the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen began their attacks again targeting ships. US Central Command says naval ships “successfully engaged and destroyed four long-range...
March 28, 2024
Invading Rafah: The lessons IDF should take from northern Gaza
As Israel looks toward an operation in Rafah, the battle will be overshadowed by lessons learned from other parts of the Gaza operation over the last five months. The ground maneuver in Gaza began...
March 28, 2024
The Israel vs. Hamas Gaza War: Six Months In
Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant flew to Washington this week for key meetings with American officials. He met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan,...
March 27, 2024
Türkiye’s Energy Engagement in Central Asia and the Caucasus
Excerpt In recent years, Türkiye has significantly increased cooperation with the states of Central Asia and Azerbaijan. One of the most important geopolitical developments in recent years in Eurasia...
March 27, 2024
Are leaders of Hamas taking a ‘victory’ tour in Iran?
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh visited Iran this week for a kind of victory lap, claiming that Israel had met none of its goals so far in the war in Gaza. His visit to Iran comes around...
March 27, 2024
Lone soldiers
“Israel Alone” is the headline on the cover of the March 23rd issue of The Economist, a British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli flag buffeted by a sandstorm. I wonder if Yahya Sinwar,...
March 27, 2024
Training begins in northern Israel to prepare forces for “offensive plans”
One person died in northern Israel after Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets at Kiryat Shmona on March 27, just one day after the terrorist group targeted a military base on Mount Meron in northern...
March 26, 2024
Washington Denies a Bedrock of Warfighting
The Biden administration recently pressed Ukraine to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries. Ukrainian strikes on refineries and tankers in the Black Sea have contributed to a rise in the global oil price,...
March 26, 2024
Israel’s Minister of Defense in Washington for key meetings
Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant arrived in Washington for a multi-day visit for meetings with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Secretary of Defense Lloyd...
March 26, 2024
Cooperate or Compete? The Zero-Sum Game of AI Engagement with China
The United States and China have reportedly reached an agreement to extend the decades-long cooperative framework of the US-China Science and Technology Agreement. That recent move follows Biden...
March 26, 2024
Hezbollah claims it has six-fold increase in speed of weapons delivery
Hezbollah has increased the speed with which it can stockpile weapons, one of its senior officials told Al Mayadeen, a pro-Iranian news channel based in Beirut. This is important because Hezbollah...
March 26, 2024
Houthis boast of ‘advanced’ capabilities
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March 26, 2024
How did 500 terrorists return to Shifa Hospital?
Over the last week, the Israel Defense Forces have been carrying out a complex raid at Shifa Hospital. The hospital is a large, sprawling compound. The raid began a week ago, on the evening of March...
March 26, 2024
Iran believes Gaza war will ‘shape new world order’
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said the war in Gaza will lead to a “transformation in the unjust order that rules the world.” He made the claims at a gathering on Monday, according to Iran’s...
March 25, 2024
Terror Exposes Putin’s Broken Promise—And Worse Will Come
Friday’s attack at a Moscow theater was an historic act of terrorism. It was the most grotesque slaughter of human life in Russia since the high point of Chechen terrorist violence in 2004. It exposed...
March 25, 2024
Serbia and Russia want to refight Kosovo, this time with disinformation
Excerpt Yesterday, marked the 25th anniversary of NATO’s intervention against Serbia in 1999 to halt the human rights abuses perpetrated against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo. Today,...
March 25, 2024
Hamas launches rockets at major Israeli cities
For the first time in two months, rockets were fired from Gaza at Ashdod and Ashkelon, two coastal Israeli cities south of Tel Aviv which were the major targets of hundreds of rocket attacks...
March 25, 2024
Bring them home . . . or not — Biden just sold out Israeli hostages at the United Nations
President Biden cleared the way Monday for the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding Israel suspend its counterterrorism operations in Gaza without conditioning any...
March 22, 2024
Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok
The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...
March 22, 2024
Battle of Avdiivka: A Preliminary Analysis
This article offers a preliminary analysis of the Battle of Avdiivka, particularly its final weeks. While more information will no doubt come to light as time passes, some initial conclusions stand out....
March 21, 2024
Looking into Kfar Aza, five months after the October 7 massacre
On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the fence at Kfar Aza that runs around the community. It is one of the closest Israeli communities to the Gaza Strip, and the...
March 21, 2024
Egypt hosts Blinken and key Arab foreign ministers
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Thursday for an important meeting. The Egyptian foreign ministry spotlighted the “expanded bilateral consultations”...
March 21, 2024
Jordan commemorates battle of Karameh against Israeli forces, echoing today’s war
On March 21, 1968, the Battle of Karameh took place in Jordan, pitting Israeli forces against a combined force of Palestinian fighters and Jordanian soldiers. Because the name for the site of the battle...
March 21, 2024
Al Jazeera should report, not inflame, the Gaza war
The Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera has unjustifiably become part of the Gaza war story. In January, two Al Jazeera reporters, Hamzah Dahdouh and Mustafa Thurayya, were killed in the war. On Monday,...
March 21, 2024
Iran-backed Iraqi terrorists claim to target Israeli power plant
The Iranian pro-government Tasnim news media claimed that the “Islamic Resistance of Iraq announced that in support of the people of Gaza…it targeted the power plant of the Zionist regime in ‘Tel...
March 21, 2024
Despite Deadly Stabbing, Hopeful Signs for Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel
Israeli soldier Uri Moyal’s visit to a café in southern Israel last Thursday ended up being his last. While Moyal waited in line, Fadi Abu Altayef, from the nearby Bedouin city of Rahat, fatally stabbed the...
March 21, 2024
The Growing List of Al Jazeera Terrorists
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) arrested Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul on Monday during a firefight with terrorists at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital. The Qatari television channel immediately...
March 21, 2024
How Turkey’s opposition media empowers Erdoğan
Complicity in perpetuating authoritarian rule has many faces. Undemocratic governance is propped up by politicians and big businesses as well as a complacent media ecosystem and...
March 20, 2024
Reported US-Iran Talks Explain Saudi Sitting Out Red Sea Operations
Wafic Safa, a top Hezbollah official, is on an unprecedented visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country that classifies the Iran-backed Lebanese militia as a terrorist organization. The...
March 20, 2024
Khamenei’s Strategy to Dominate the Middle East Will Outlive Him
Earlier this month, Iran conducted elections for its parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a body of elderly clerics nominally responsible for choosing the next supreme leader. The massive disqualification...
March 20, 2024
Attack TikTok
Starting in the 1920s, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pioneered the art of dezinformatsiya. A hundred years later, the Communist Party of China has developed disinformation into...
March 19, 2024
Israel bulks northern defense with new mountain brigade amid ongoing Hezbollah threat
The Israel Defense Forces announced the creation of a new unit with the objective of protecting Israel’s mountainous terrain on its northern border with Lebanon. The new unit will be called the ‘mountain...
March 18, 2024
Putin Wants War in the Balkans
As all eyes are on Ukraine, another conflict is brewing in Europe. Three decades after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, recent clashes between Serbia and Kosovo have reignited lingering ethnic...
March 18, 2024
Pakistani military, Afghan Taliban exchange fire along the border
The Afghan Taliban launched attacks across the border into Pakistan on Monday in response to Pakistani military airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan. The Pakistani military, which helped the Afghan Taliban...
March 18, 2024
It’s not just a theory. TikTok’s ties to Chinese government are dangerous.
The House of Representatives last week delivered a clear ultimatum to Chinese technology giant ByteDance: Sell TikTok to American owners or see it removed from U.S. app stores. This bold,...
March 18, 2024
Israel warns Hezbollah as attacks continue in north
Israel has been at war with Hamas for 164 days as of March 18, and the Israel Defense Forces continue to operate on multiple fronts. Israel’s Chief of Staff Herzi HaLevi said on March 17 that Israel...
March 18, 2024
U.S. official confirms Israeli forces killed senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed on Monday an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat area last week killed senior Hamas military commander Marwan Issa. The targeted strike against...
March 17, 2024
Tehran claims to be ‘self-sufficient’ in building drone engines
Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani said recently that Iran is “designing and manufacturing airplane and drone engines; the country is self-sufficient in this field,” according...
March 17, 2024
Iran’s president wants new focus on artificial intelligence
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held a meeting focusing on “big steps” in the field of artificial intelligence, Iran’s pro-government Tasnim News reported on Sunday. Iran has already invested in...
March 17, 2024
Iran’s far reaching influence: Are the Houthis getting leverage via attacks?
The Iranian-backed Houthis appear to be increasing their influence through their continued attacks on ships in the Red Sea. This is because they have not been deterred, and their attacks have become increasingly...
March 17, 2024
How tensions between Hamas and Fatah could change Gaza
Tensions between Hamas and Fatah, the two largest Palestinian groups, appear to be growing and becoming more openly visible. While the two groups have been rivals historically, the October 7 attack...
March 16, 2024
Losing control of Gaza: Hamas cracks down on civilians with more intensity
Hamas appears to sense that its rule over Gaza is in jeopardy and is returning to its roots as a thuggish, mafia-like organization, cracking down on Gazans who speak out against it and massacring people...
March 16, 2024
Why wasn’t October 7 prevented? Time to look to the West
While Israel will need to investigate its own failures on and leading up to October 7, there is also enough blame to go around Western nations. Hamas is hosted by Qatar, a major non-NATO ally...
March 15, 2024
Radical transparency is democracy’s secret weapon to counter China
Authoritarian regimes, like China, fundamentally depend upon opacity for their engagement with the global economy. Opacity provides the perfect cover for bribes, illicit finance, and corruption, while...
March 15, 2024
The Campus Antisemite’s Secret Weapon
Protesters were breaking glass and shouting “Intifada! Intifada!” at Berkeley just a few weeks ago. Following the October 7 terror attack on Israel, antisemites at many American colleges...
March 15, 2024
First maritime humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza
The first delivery of humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza occurred on March 15. The Israel Defense Forces said that 115 tons of food and water arrived via a barge that was towed to Gaza by a ship called Open...
March 15, 2024
The Big Lies About Israel’s Big Bombs
President Joe Biden says Israel is losing support because of its “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza. He says that Israeli conduct in Gaza has been “over the top.” His secretary of state,...
March 14, 2024
Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers
Just six weeks after an Iran-backed drone strike killed three American soldiers in Jordan, President Biden has approved a sanctions waiver giving Tehran continued access to more than $10 billion...
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