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Biden Stumbled — But Not The Way You Thought

Shoshana Bryen
After President Joe Biden’s Thursday press conference, most people appeared to have fixated on the gaffes. Okay, that is fun. But the president appeared to...

How to Deal With Iran’s Proxies

Stephen Blank
Despite the salience of the war in Ukraine and Israel’s war against Hamas and potentially Hezbollah; Iran’s other proxy, the Houthi, continue to threaten...

Imperial NATO is on the Way

Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen
NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The name should have been changed long ago, when NATO shifted its focus and operations south and eastward. NATO is...

Israel Against Hezbollah: Now or Nuclear?

Eric Rozenman
Unlike Ukraine, Israel is presumed to possess nuclear weapons. Unlike Israel, Iran is presumed not to possess nuclear weapons, not yet. But according to...

The US Shouldn’t Want a Ceasefire in Gaza; It Should Want the Defeat of...

Shoshana Bryen
It appears that the US may have found a ceasefire formula for Gaza; or it may not have. Hamas, it appears, has already announced that...

Israeli Defense Tech is About to Have a Moment

Simone Ledeen
The announcement from France that Eurosatory 2024 in Paris, one of the world's largest defense and security exhibitions was banning Israeli companies and Israeli...

Haredi Draft Ideology Debunked

David M. Weinberg
There is no solution to the haredi draft issue. Haredi leaders are not budging – despite October 7, despite the near-existential threat situation Israel...

The Results of Biden’s Policy Toward Iran Are Now Evident

Shoshana Bryen
The security results of Biden administration policy toward Iran are now evident. While the United States reiterated its support of Israel if a full-blown war breaks out...

The White House Plan to Exclude Israel from Gaza

Shoshana Bryen
According to Politico, in a piece largely overlooked, “The Biden administration is considering appointing a U.S. official to serve as the top civilian adviser to...

Digging Deeper on the Hostage Raid

Shoshana Bryen
How do you parse all the emotions? Eight months after the worst deliberate torturous murder, rape, and mutilation of Jewish people since the Holocaust, four...

Statistics, Lies and War Reporting

Eric Rozenman
Israel’s existential struggle against Iran’s “ring of fire”—Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah in Lebanon, militia in Syria and Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen...

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc

Shoshana Bryen
Eighty years ago today, the Allies invaded Normandy, beginning the march to Berlin, victory in World War II, the defeat of Nazi Germany’s military...

The Demolitionists: Explaining the Leftist-Islamist Alliance

Jeremiah Rozman
Arab/Islamist religious and ethno-nationalists—textbook far-right ideologies—and the Western far-left band together to oppose Israel despite having diametrically opposed values on nearly all other issues....

Why Does Biden Doubt Israel’s Military Capability?

Shoshana Bryen
“There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, “There are thousands to prophesy failure, “There are thousands to point out to you one by...

Israel Secured Food Aid to the Palestinians — Not the US or Egypt

Shoshana Bryen
It turns out that there are two ways to open the humanitarian corridor from Rafah through Egypt, which Egypt nailed shut in early November. One is...