The Arab plan for Gaza sidelines Hamas and PA, but only for six months
Dead-on-arrival plan for non-factional interim committee to run Gaza during transition is dissociated from reality
Yitzhak Rabin
Targeting Jihad Yaghmour and the Hamas operation in Turkey
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday to participate in an emergency summit designed to address the war in Gaza. Erdogan has emerged as...
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The Miscalculation of Hamas
Hamas came at dawn and murdered with abandon. It had the element of surprise. Israel was unprepared. This was unprecedented. Israel’s security barrier breached; Israeli communities and military...
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Israel Super Capabilities in Space
The great achievements of Israel space industry, since its inception, demand the continued development of advanced "blue-and-white" space related technologies, cultivation of visual intelligence, construction of the relevant knowledge centers and international cooperation
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Only America Can Resolve the Cyprus Question
Without a viable solution to the Cyprus dispute, Western security will remain in a perpetual state of fragility.
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Will Bibi Make the Left’s Nightmares Come True? It’s Never Happened Before
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Hamas as Tehran’s Agent
Since the late 1980s, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been plying the Hamas terrorist group with cash and weapons while also teaching it how to be self-sufficient. With hundreds of millions of dollars...
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How Israel’s Minority Government Can Stay in Power
The loss of a majority in the parliament is a damaging setback for both Bennett and Lapid. However, it is still too soon to count either of them out.
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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.
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Sharansky’s journeys
From prison to politics to an exodus from Africa
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Is Bibi’s Oman Visit an Omen?
The possibility that the country of five million could be a peace broker.
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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...
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The New Hezbollah: Israel’s Next War Will Be A Godawful Mess
However, pundits are now suggesting that when the Iranian proxy group initiates its next war with Israel, it wi...
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A House Undivided: Israel’s New Consensus Politics
Israelis go to the polls on March 17, and in a time-honored tradition, international pundits are hopin...
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Terrorist Attack In Paris Proves We Must Defeat The Islamist Jihadists
Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have scrambled to convince the public of two things: that terrorist acts are not driven by religious beliefs, and that Islam is a “religi...
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The Mideast Peace Process Peters Out
Blessed are the peace makers. But don’t confuse peace makers with peace processors. The latter think they can persuade the lion to lie down with the lamb. The former are realistic enough to...
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A Far-Right Israeli Electorate?
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Israelis haven’t become radicals. They’ve just abandoned a delusion.
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Dictators and Double Standards
As we watch the Syrian dictator struggle to survive, and the Egyptian would-be dictator run from an angry mob, and as we think back to the many fallen dictators of the recent past – Gorbach...
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Did Israel and the US Just Cooperate on a Dry-Run for an Iran Intervention?
Within hours of a bombing raid on a weapons factory in Sudan last month, the international media was pointing fingers at Israel. Some reports suggested that the strike looked like a dry run for a...
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International Law and the Hamas-Fatah Doha Deal
As the PLO moves toward Hamas, it moves away, in an inverse relationship, from international legality.