The Israeli Right won Israel’s November 1 elections. The four parties in incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s ruling right-wing coalition won 64 seats in Israel’s 120-member Knesset. Although the polls were close, the Right’s clear-cut victory is easy to understand. Israel’s electorate is center-right, by a large margin. Israel’s three-year electoral paralysis owed to the presence of splinter right-wing parties that refused to…

On Monday night, an Egyptian television reporter covering the World Cup tournament in Doha, Qatar was assaulted by an angry mob and forced to leave the games to avoid being lynched. The mob assaulted him because they mistook him for an Israeli reporter. Qatari officials were reportedly embarrassed by the incident. They weren’t embarrassed about the crowd’s violent anti-Semitism, though.…

The deadly bombings at two Jerusalem bus stops on Wednesday morning were the first bombing attacks Israelis have suffered in their capital in recent years. They shouldn’t have surprised anyone, though. Jerusalem has been the scene of a steadily escalating stream of Palestinian stabbing, shooting and vehicular attacks against Jews since the start of the year. In recent weeks, Palestinian…

he Biden administration is feeding Israel to the wolves. That is the only reasonable way to understand Channel 14’s bombshell report on Sunday that the FBI has opened an investigation of IDF soldiers in relation to the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh died on May 11 in Jenin while she was embedded with Iranian-controlled Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists…

After an electoral triumph as profound as Tuesday’s win for incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his Likud Party and the right-religious bloc, you’d think that politicians and voters would be having street parties and celebratory rallies, similar to those of Ehud Barak and his supporters in the aftermath of their victory in 1999. But the response of both voters and…