Ariel Sharon

February 1, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

As Israel’s southern Sderot evacuees return, questions remain over Gaza border future

Sderot can be a great place to live as long as the Hamas terror entity is defeated next door, says resident Ivri Adanani, who evacuated and returned with his family.

December 19, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

With 7-ton resupply of water to troops in Gaza, IDF shows precision airdrop capability

Analysts told Breaking Defense the mission could be a test case for potential future, long-range operations in the region.

December 8, 2023 | |

10 Things to Know About the History of Gaza

Gaza has suddenly captured the world’s attention. On October 7, 2023, thousands of terrorists from Gaza invaded Israel, massacred over 1,200 Israelis, and abducted some 248 hostages back into Gaza, including...

November 2, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

The key figures leading Israel’s military campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza

Here are the masterminds directing each aspect of the IDF operation

October 16, 2023 | |

10 Things to Know About Hamas

What is Hamas? Hamas is an Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist organization that controls the Gaza Strip. Hamas’ 1988 charter states: “Hamas rejects any alternative to the full and...

October 13, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Report from the Gaza Front: A New Playbook

I spent the first days of the war on the Gaza border, mostly near Kibbutz Zikim. On the fifth day, October 11, I went to the Gaza border city of Sderot and spent time in the community, speaking with locals...

September 13, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Mahmoud Abbas’ Jewish problem

Why the Palestinian leader can’t make peace with Israelis

August 17, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Israel’s long, hot summer

The Jewish state faces intensifying threats and internal divisions

January 3, 2023 | |

Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Visits Temple Mount

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made an unannounced visit on Tuesday to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, drawing protests from the Palestinians, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Jews maintain a 3,000-year-old connection to the Temple Mount, where the two ancient Jewish temples once stood, and toward which Jews around the world face during prayer. The site is also sacred to Muslims, who call it the Noble Sanctuary, and houses the Al Aqsa Mosque, an icon of Palestinian nationalism. Ben-Gvir’s visit did not alter the mount’s status quo arrangement, which permits Israelis to visit but not pray at the site, and simply affirmed that Jews have the right to visit it.

July 6, 2022 | Shany Mor |

War Has Consequences: 20-Year Scars of The Second Intifada

For most Jews, Passover means a festive meal, a Seder (or two) with family and close friends, eating matzah and retelling the story of the Exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery into freedom. For...

May 9, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Qatar Is Hamas’ Patron. Its ‘Moderate’ Rebranding Is a Dangerous Delusion

A rash of commentary celebrating a supposed shift in Qatari policy, away from promoting and subsidizing radical Islamists like Hamas and the Taliban to "moderating" them, is misplaced, misinformed and dangerously naïve

November 15, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Book review: Gaza Conflict 2021

In Gaza Conflict 2021:  Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War, Jonathan Schanzer provides what the mainstream media avoided during reporting on the May conflict: Context. Schanzer, who is senior vice president...

May 18, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer, David May

Sheikh Jarrah is the latest ‘single point of failure’ fiction

This is certainly not the first time that the “single point of failure” narrative has been wielded to explain a campaign of organized Palestinian or Arab-Israeli violence.

February 16, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

It’s Time for Biden to Call Netanyahu

He might want to avoid controversy right now, but he can't avoid our most valuable ally in the Middle East.

November 4, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Sharansky’s journeys

From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa

May 24, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

For Hamas and its allies, the worse the better

There was a time when even inveterate haters of Israel refrained from making common cause with terrorists, jihadists and exterminationists. That time has passed. Hamas, the terrorist org...

July 14, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

Mahmoud Abbas and the Years of Terror

Mahmoud Abbas entered Yasser Arafat’s office in the Palestinian presidential complex, commonly referred to as the muqata‘a (compound), in the center of Rama...

July 3, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

The Political Education of Mahmoud Abbas

Co-written by Amir Tibon. When Israeli tanks besieged Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah in 2002, the Palestinian leader famously declared, “Oh God, grant...

June 7, 2017 | Clifford D. May

The Six-Day War and the 50-year occupation

Fifty years ago this week, the young state of Israel faced the threat of extermination – a second Jewish Holocaust in a single century. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated candidly...

May 3, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: German FM Fishes for Antisemitic Vote in Row with Israel

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s ongoing assaults on the legitimacy of the Israeli government may actually be about winning the federal election in September. In the latest...