Israel SitRep: Nov. 21, 2023
Today’s Issue: Israeli Cabinet to Meet Tonight to Approve Hostage Deal | Israel Announces It Captured Two Gazans Inside the Country a Month after the October 7 Attacks | IDF Forces Encircle Jabalya,...
Vatican City
Iran begins diplomatic offensive against Israel and US
The key leaders in Iran’s efforts are President Ibrahim Raisi and chief diplomat Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
Op-eds
Walk like an Israeli
Why a Jew’s visit to the holiest Jewish site provokes outrage
Op-eds
Lebanon’s ‘useless’ election will be neither free nor fair
Hezbollah coercion has occurred in the weeks and months leading up to this Sunday’s vote
Op-eds
In the Iran nuclear crisis, the IAEA stands alone
Excerpt “And how many divisions does the Pope have?” former Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin is alleged to have quipped in response to a political comment by the Vatican. Though outdated, the retort...
Op-eds
Turkey Needs to Change its Policy and Rhetoric Toward Religious Minorities
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stunned his country’s Christians and Jews by publicly using the slur “gavur” (infidel), a pejorative designation for non-Muslims, to criticize...
Op-eds
Russia-Turkey Pincer Movement Threatens Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Survival
It is time the West offered robust support to the Istanbul-based Patriarchate – now being squeezed by Ankara and Moscow, both of which see it as a threat to their illiberal projects.
Op-eds
It’s time for a new Palestinian prez
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is under fire for anti-Semitic remarks in a speech on Monday. The octogenarian leader blamed the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust on Jewish f...
Op-eds
Catholic Church in Turkey Attacked – Again
A lone gunman...
Policy Briefs
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...
Policy Briefs
The battles of Britain and Egypt
The slaughter of 22 concertgoers in Manchester last week was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Is...
Op-eds
How Can Trump Make Peace Without a Partner in Palestine?
resident Donald Trump visits Israel next week at a supremely awkward moment, amid ...
Op-eds
A Turkish TV blockbuster reveals Erdogan’s conspiratorial, anti-Semitic worldview
“The Last Emperor” is Turkey’s newest television blockbuster, consistently rating among Turkey’s ...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Latest Scapegoats: Christians
Turkish police on October 7 detained the American pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife Norine – residents of Turkey for the last twenty years – for “activities against national se...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Latest Scapegoats: Christians
Turkish police on October 7 detained...
Policy Briefs
Why Hasn’t ISIS Blown Up Rome?
At lunch the other day, a smart man asked me how come there hadn’t been terrorism in Italy, even though Islamic State keeps promising to attack the Vatican. You’ve undoubtedl...
Op-eds
The Death and Life of the Two-State Solution
On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection, thanks in part to a desperate last-minute pledge to his right-wing base that the Palestinians would never get a state so lon...
Op-eds
Obama’s in Bed With the Pope, Tony Blair, Ruth Benedict, the UN and Most Universities
There was nothing particularly new about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast the other day, and most of the opinion makers and shapers who feigned outrage are late to...
Op-eds
Iran’s Supreme Censor
The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is...
Op-eds
Bigotry Behind The Cassock
Last week, an indignant audience including prelates and leaders of the Eastern Christian churches, ...