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The Evolution (Resurrection?) of Syria

Amit Segal •
Israel’s presence in southern Lebanon has two objectives: to protect northern residents from direct rocket fire and choke Hezbollah’s “logistical oxygen line.” But to...

The Special Relationship is Dead

Ken Timmerman •
Remember how we used to think of France? "Lafayette, we are here!" are the words attributed to General Pershing on July 4, 1917 at...

Turkey Discovers Its Limits

Amit Segal •
In Ankara, a man suddenly woke up in the morning and discovered he is not quite as big as he thought. The year 2025...

Hamas Uses Gaza Hospitals and European Funds

Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib •
Hamas’s intelligence base in Al-Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Southern Gaza Strip: Hamas’s intelligence services have started going after a friend of mine and...

The Findings are Serious. Amnesty Still Isn’t.

Sarah Ettedgui •
I read Amnesty’s report. The findings are serious. The organization still isn’t. Amnesty has finally published a detailed account of the atrocities of Oct. 7....

So, What Has Israel Done to Help the United States?

Lenny Ben-David •
What does Israel do for the United States? So-called pundits have raised the provocative question in recent weeks. There are so many answers: intelligence...

Israeli Military Dumps Chinese Cars

Stephen Bryen •
Israel is dumping Chinese vehicles it bought for its senior officers and their families, a perk to support career retention in military service. Up...

10 Questions ‘Genocide in Gaza’ Accusers Cannot Answer (Updated)

Salo Aizenberg •
There is now an 11th and final key question "genocide accusers" cannot answer: why did Israel halt its military operations in Gaza and agree...

A Voice from Israel

David M. Weinberg •
Mitch Schneider October 10 at 12:09 PM “I keep hearing that Israel "lost the PR war." And you know what? Fine. Sure. Whatever. The...

The Rise of Golden Dome

Dr. Stanley Orman •
Living with Deterrence Having been chased out of London in 1944 by the German V1 & V2 raids, then spending 10 months as an evacuee...

Al Jazeera and Gaza

Amit Segal •
What’s going on at Al Jazeera? If you go onto its website, you’ll see relatively mild news items, as opposed to the incitement that...

Did you Say, Obliterate?

Ken Timmerman •
The press has had a field day since an anti-Trumper inside the US intelligence community leaked a preliminary Defense Intelligence Agency assessment of the...

Twelve post-Twelve Day War Israel-Iran War observations

Saul Sadka •
1. Israel was done with its targets Once Israel bombed the "countdown clock"—that counted down to the IRGC's planned destruction of Israel on September 9,...

Update: Greta’s Little Selfie Flotilla

Arsen Ostrovsky •
Well played Israel, well played! After stopping Greta's little Selfie Flotilla without incident, the IDF handed out water and sandwiches - wrapped in Plastic. The boat...

A Note on Proportionality

Dr. Brian L. Cox •
Ed Note: Dr. Cox, Adjunct professor at Cornell University School of Law and retired US Army officer, was responding to television personality Piers Morgan,...