Christmas

December 17, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Night raid: Watching female IDF soldiers detain terror suspects in Bethlehem

Most of the residents are descended from Arabs who fled Beit Jibrin in 1948. Today, it is also home to wanted suspects who have engaged in terrorism or who may be active in threats against Israel.

December 27, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz |

Biden needs to strike back hard against Houthis to protect Red Sea — and US influence

Iran is on the offensive. On the day after Christmas, in the space of just 10 hours, US forces in the Red Sea had to shoot down 12 suicide drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two ballistic...

December 9, 2023 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Reporter’s Notebook: Life in northern Israel amid Hezbollah tensions

The sense of a ghost town, made more intense by low-hanging clouds and a bit of rain, fills out this area; from Arab al-Aramshe to Shtula and toward Mattat.

June 1, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A formula for strife

Download full article here Excerpt After 11 days of conflict, on May 20, Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire agreement brokered by Egypt. Thus ended the fifth round of hostilities between them since...

December 12, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

How Canada became dangerously compliant to China

The baseline was hug a PLA soldier and ride off on a unicorn into a trust-based sunset together. It wasn’t that the Canadian government didn’t know what was going on in China. A few days ago, I got...

January 14, 2020 | David Adesnik |

Trump’s Caesar Act honors Syrian photographer who proved Assad regime’s war crimes

He was once a military photographer in Syria. For two years, he took pictures of the emaciated and mangled corpses left behind by Bashar al Assad’s interrogators. Then he fled to Europe with 55,000 digital...

January 9, 2020 | Jacob Nagel, Jonathan Schanzer

Israel and US face Iran on parallel planes

Iran has crossed the threshold on low-enriched uranium, shortening significantly the time to produce enough fissile material for a nuclear device.

December 26, 2019 | Clifford D. May

The war against Christians

It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia

January 11, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran launched Christmas crackdown on persecuted Christian minority

The Islamic Republic of Iran unleashed yet another crackdown on the country’s struggling ...

August 29, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Human Rights Groups Slam Iran for Prison Terms of Christians and Dervishes

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch blasted the Islamic Republic of Iran for its sweeping violent crackdown on Christians and Dervishes, including imposing lengthy prison terms on the me...

January 4, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Biggest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Recent History

Yesterday, Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom for a range of financial crimes. His dramatic trial revealed that tens o...

December 22, 2017 | Boris Zilberman |

This Christmas, Remember Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson

Pastor Andrew Brunson will be spending his second Christmas in a Turkish jail, unfairly held by the Erdogan government on...

December 5, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal

Victims’ Families On 2016 Attack: Germany Failed Us

The family members of the 12 murder victims from last December’s Christmas terror attack, which included the Israeli Dalia Elyakim, published a blistering open letter to German Chancellor A...

May 23, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

The Manchester Attack Shows How Terrorists Learn

Yesterday’s terrorist attack that struck at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in Britain’s Manchester Arena—leaving 22 people dead and 59 injured, by the ...

January 4, 2017 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ISIL’s Virtual Planners: A Critical Terrorist Innovation

On December 19, Anis Amri plowed a hijacked truck through the Christm...

January 7, 2016 | |

Abbas Strives to Project Palestinian Stability, but Threats to His Rule Remain

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a defiant speech Wednesday in the West Bank city of Bethlehem amidst rumors of ill health and the potential collapse of the Palestinian Authority. Sp...

December 21, 2015 | Tony Badran |

All in the Assad Family

Everyone loves Christmas in New York City, and Ribal al-Assad, the first cousin of the genocidal Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, is no exception....

November 25, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Memo to Presidential Campaign Advisers

This memorandum is addressed to the brave souls advising presidential candidates. As you know, the recent terrorist attacks in France – and in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Turke...

November 20, 2015 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The Long War Continues

In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...

September 18, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Our Iranian Interlocutor

Antisemitism has never been an easy subject for America’s foreign-policy establishment. Read through State Department telegrams and Central Intelligence Agency operational and intelligence...