Dome of the Rock

October 8, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

IDF locates Hezbollah tunnel and weapons as Lebanon operation expands

The Israel Defense Forces increased operations in Lebanon on October 7 and October 8, sending more forces across the border on raids and finding more weapons stored by Hezbollah in southern Lebanese villages....

June 10, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Turkey’s foreign minister meets Hamas leader in Doha

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Hamas leadership in Doha over the weekend. Turkey’s current leadership are backers of Hamas, and they have hosted Hamas leaders numerous times.

May 28, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: May 28, 2024

Today’s Issue: 460th Armored Brigade Fights in ‘Heart of Jabalya,’ Finds Weapons in UNRWA Bags Inside School | IDF Troops Arrest Eight in Overnight West Bank Raids | Hezbollah Launches Fundraising...

December 21, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Abdullah in the middle

Why Jordan has not joined the Abraham Accords

October 6, 2021 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

An Iraqi Perspective on Israel

Growing up in Iraq, my curriculum in Baghdad’s elementary school included a “nationalism class” and required that we read a text by the Governor of Baghdad and Saddam Hussein’s maternal uncle, Khairallah...

October 21, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Cutthroats of the Holy Land

Over the years, Israelis have had to defend themselves from foreign armies, suicide bombers and missiles. Over recent weeks, they’ve been confronting a new threat: young Palestinians wieldi...

September 15, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Temple Mount Violence Yet Again

There were clashes on the Jerusalem Temple Mount in the runup to Rosh Hashanah, and I blame Moshe Dayan. He was the prematurely politically correct Israeli Defense Minister who, in 1967, couldn&r...

November 25, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Slaughter in the Synagogue

Executioners for the Islamic State use knives to cut the throats of Christians, Yazidis and “apostate” Muslims. Palestinian executioners last week used knives and a meat cleaver to sl...

November 10, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Jerusalem, on a Knife’s Edge

Stabbing attacks and random acts of Palestinian terror have brought the violence in Gaza and the West Bank into the heart of Israel. This is not the Third Intifada. At l...

August 2, 2011 |

Once Again, the Jewish Question

If money could buy peace, this would be a golden era for Middle East peacemaking. Notwithstanding activists' much-hyped "boycott, divestment and sanctions" campaign, Israel's economy is...

December 23, 2007 |

Terrorist TV in Eurabia


While much has been made about the anti-American bias of Arabic-language television networks like al-Jazeera in recent years, policymakers have largely ignored the incitement and violent propaganda emanating from satellite television stations that are owned and operated by Middle East terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hizbullah. These terrorist channels have played an important role in the radicalization of Europe's Muslim populations. Yet, few steps have been taken to prevent these channels from disseminating jihadist propaganda.