Israel’s end game with Hezbollah


What is the Israeli military’s end game with Hezbollah? Can Israel fight a two-front war on its southern and northern borders? Is avoiding a full-scale conflict with the Iranian-backed militia, which has always had far more weapon power than Hamas, even desirable? I discussed these matters with the Herut Center’s CEO Amiad Cohen. Cohen argued that Israel must take back…

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Bibas family relative to Trump: Biden is preventing Israeli victory


I interviewed cousin and advocate of the Bibas family Yosi Shnaider. Shnaider wrote a letter to President Trump in the hopes that the former President can influence and help in some way to free the hostages. Shnaider further expresses that the international community and the Biden administration have abandoned Israel and more specifically the hostages. The Bibas family including 9-month-old…

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Debate takeaways for Israel


There was nothing remotely surprising about U.S. President Joe Biden’s performance at the presidential debate in Atlanta on Thursday night. The doddering, muttering, angry and seemingly confused man staring emptily, with mouth agape who stood on the CNN debate stage was the same man who has shown up before the cameras nearly every day since Biden was sworn into office on Jan.…

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Biden’s whole of government hostility to Israel


The top U.S.-Israel story of the week is the prospect of a massive ground war in Lebanon. The main question dominating the discourse is whether the Biden administration intends to provide Israel with the munitions it requires to prosecute such a war successfully. The White House says it has Israel’s back. But recent U.S.-Israel backstories indicate that Israeli anxiety about…

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Netanyahu confronts Biden on weapons betrayal


Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called out the Biden administration for withholding weapons; New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote that he wants Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar in power and Netanyahu to be overthrown; and a U.N. panel found no conclusive evidence that famine exists in the Gaza Strip.

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Responding to Hezbollah’s Strategic Offensive


Hezbollah is burning a swathe through northern Israel. The nature reserves, grazing land, fields and orchards are burning to the ground. Military bases, including several strategic assets, are incurring major damage. More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed. Businesses are bankrupt. And some 80,000 Israelis are living in hotels with no sense of when they may be able to go…

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ESCAPE FROM HAMAS: What Israel’s Hostage Rescue Tells You About Gaza


An incredible Israeli operation rescues four hostages from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip. Yet in a new low, the mainstream media focuses on alleged Palestinian civilian casualties, accusing Israel of “war crimes” based on numbers provided by the Hamas-controlled “Gaza Health Ministry.” What does the daring rescue mission reveal about the coastal enclave’s “civilian population” and the way mainstream…

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What will be the impact if Gantz’s leaves the government?


Barring any unforeseen events, War Cabinet member and Minister-without-Portfolio Benny Gantz is expected to take his eight-member faction out of the Netanyahu government on Saturday night. With his departure, the national emergency government and the war cabinet formed last October after he joined forces with Netanyahu will be dissolved. What precipitated Gantz’s departure? Are new elections upon us? How will…

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