11/28/2024
Most Israelis were outraged to hear of what seemed to be capitulation in the form of a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah. What happened behind the scenes, however, draws a much more complicated picture that forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to choose between bad and worse options.
11/22/2024
The announcement by the International Criminal Court on Thursday that it is issuing international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant indicates that the bottom has fallen out of the international system. The institutions formed in the wake of World War II to create and preserve a liberal, international rules-based order never worked…
11/11/2024
On Sunday, Israel reportedly killed Hezbollah terror boss Ali Musa Daqduq in Syria, bringing a measure of justice to the US military’s Iraq war veterans. In 2007, Daqduq and his underlings infiltrated a US base in Karbala, Iraq, killing one soldier and kidnapping — and later brutally executing — four more. CENTCOM sources on Monday expressed confidence that Daqduq had…
11/07/2024
A collective sigh of relief was heard across Israel as the results of the U.S. presidential election were declared. But we cannot rest on our laurels. At this critical juncture, Israel must carefully assess the challenges it faces in the immediate term, as the lame-duck Biden administration completes its term. And it must set goals for the next four years…
10/29/2024
It was strange to watch Fox News’ Martha MacCallum yesterday refer to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “unpopularity” in Israel. McCallum is a straight-shooting journalist. So how is it that she is unaware that Netanyahu is the most popular prime minister Israel has had in ages? Direct Polls is Israel’s most accurate polling company. It was the only one to accurately call…
10/29/2024
When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced that IDF forces operating in Rafah had eliminated Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, he directed a portion of his remarks to the people of Gaza. “Sinwar destroyed your lives,” he told them. “He told you he was a lion, when in fact, he was hiding in a dark den, and he was killed as…
Almost immediately after the Hamas-led Palestinian invasion of Israel last Oct. 7, the Biden-Harris administration began demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu present his “day after” plan for Gaza. Netanyahu insisted that the day after had to wait until the war was won. But over time, Netanyahu began explaining contours of his post-war plans. They included the de-Hamasification of Gaza…
09/29/2024
The life of Israel is a split screen. The first screen shows the life of a nation and a country fending off a coordinated seven-front assault whose goal is the Jewish state’s physical obliteration with heroism, ingenuity and fortitude that takes your breath away. The second screen shows the envy and hatred that the nations of the world direct at…
09/29/2024
On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists snatched Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, Carmel Gat, 39, Eden Yerushalmi, 24, Almog Sarusi, 26, Alex Lobanov, 32, and Ori Danino, 25 from the Supernova Music Festival and their homes along the border with Gaza along with 250 other innocents and held them as hostages. As we know from hostages rescued alive since, Hamas tortures the Israeli captives as…
09/29/2024
On Monday at around 10 p.m. local time, Israeli ground forces reportedly began crossing the border into Lebanon. Earlier that day, a reporter asked President Biden if he was informed of Israel’s plans for a ground operation in Lebanon and whether he was comfortable with them. “I’m more aware than you might know, and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” Biden responded testily.…