Trump has handed Bibi free rein on Gaza – he now needs to figure out a strategy
Removing Hamas requires a vision to prevent the territory becoming a source of more extremism and terror
Allies of World War II
Israel Is Overhauling Its Defense Ideology; Will Arab States Finally Support It?
Israel is perhaps the most muscular and influential power in the Middle East today. When Israel changes its defense ideology, as per the Nagel Committee Report released last week, the region must take...
Op-eds
Bolster U.S. Military
As a new administration is poised to take charge in January 2025, it will face a markedly different threat landscape than its predecessor. The United States and its allies now confront an axis of authoritarians...
Op-eds
Netanyahu to Congress: War on Israel Is a War on the United States
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel’s war in Gaza and against Iranian proxies was not a clash of civilizations but a “clash between barbarism and civilization,”...
Flash Briefs
After Hamas is gone, how will Israel deradicalize Palestinians in Gaza?
Most Gazans approve of Hamas’s decision to launch the war on October 7 and would prefer Hamas rule over the US-backed Palestinian Authority
Op-eds
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,...
Op-eds
Israel SitRep: Jan. 12, 2024
Today’s Issue: U.S., UK, and Allied Forces Strike Houthi Targets | Israel Fights Allegations of Genocide at the UN | Israel, Lebanon Prefer ‘Diplomacy’ at Border, Says U.S. Diplomat | US Secretary...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: Nov. 27, 2023
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Israel at War Situation Report
Inside Hamas’ propaganda game
As the war in Israel rages, an ongoing struggle to control the narrative of the conflict is unfolding between Hamas and the Jewish state. This propaganda battle is not novel, as it has long been observed...
Op-eds
Great Powers Don’t Default
The Dangers of Debt-Ceiling Brinkmanship
Op-eds
The Axis of Tyrannies
It will present an enormous challenge to free nations
Op-eds
U.S. and Allies Should Target Top Iranian Executives
The U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions last Friday on the board of directors of Paravar Pars, an Iran-based manufacturer of military drones. Designating board members and top executives, not just the company...
Policy Briefs
Understanding That Weakness Is Provocative Is Deterrence 101
Biden has canceled yet another test of our ICBM system so as not to cause more tension with China.
Op-eds
Rue Britannia? Russian, Iranian and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us
Russian, Iranian, and Chinese imperialism is what should concern us
Op-eds
China moves frontline to Solomons, locals fight back
Alexandria, VA: This is Beijing’s “Oh yeah? So what are you gonna do about it?” moment. With the confirmation of a security agreement between China and Solomon Islands—a country approximately 1200...
Op-eds
The U.N.’s final solution to the Israel question
Its campaign of demonization and delegitimization escalates
Op-eds
Biden Revives the Truman Doctrine
His call to wage a global war for freedom echoes the dawn of the Cold War.
Op-eds
In U.S. backyard: How China embedded itself in Canada
Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then, that have broadened to influential pro-Beijing groups across Canada. Canada...
Op-eds
The forgotten refugees of the Middle East
Jews who were forced to flee from their homes in Arab lands
Op-eds
How Kiribati was lost to China
While China builds a fish plant that gives jobs to I-Kiribati in Kiribati, Australia promotes a scheme where young men and women leave their families behind to work temporary low skilled jobs that Australians...