Analysis & Opinion

Israel’s air superiority – analysis

The Israeli pilots are as good as any on the planet, and the latest additions to Israel’s fleet of F35s, which ultimately will number 75, will guarantee the Jewish state’s air superiority for many years to come.

March 27, 2025

The Trump foreign-policy team’s real problem – analysis

By going on Carlson’s podcast and speaking about his warm feelings for Qatar and his ideas regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict, Witkoff displayed judgment that was arguably even worse than that demonstrated in the Signal group-chat scandal.

March 27, 2025

Iran apparently planning to outwit or outwait Trump, not relinquish its nuclear program – analysis

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the ayatollahs have continued to work on their nuclear program to the extent that they now have enough material to construct at least five nuclear warheads.

March 26, 2025

Regime change is coming to Turkey – analysis

Erdoğan had willing collaborators at every pivotal moment of his career, some motivated by ideology but many others motivated by greed.

March 26, 2025

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Visas for terrorists, no visas for Israelis

None of the media outlets or organizations clamoring for the right of Islamic terrorist supporters to come to the US on visas objected to blocking pro-Israel musicians from coming to perform here.

March 26, 2025

Terrorist talking points and the Israeli protest movement – opinion

The anti-Netanyahu choir isn’t at fault for Hamas brutality, but it is to blame for weakening the war effort and encouraging enemy intransigence.

March 26, 2025

While attacking the Houthis, US is missing the Russian connection – analysis

Already a year ago, US officials revealed that operatives of Russian military intelligence were present in Sana’a, advising the Shi’ite Islamist group.

March 25, 2025

No difference between Hamas ‘politicians’ and terrorists – opinion

Did it ever occur to anyone to allow the political leaders of ISIS or Al-Qaeda to play any role in Syria and Iraq?

March 25, 2025

Hamas in America – analysis

'Death to America' and 'the total eradication of Western civilization' are not calls for change.

March 24, 2025

Does Iran want a war with America? – analysis

Khamenei is detached from reality; his gamble will fail. Just as Israel struck with precision, removing S-300 anti-aircraft missile batteries in Isfahan, so too can the United States now strike Iran with precision.

March 23, 2025

Trump: After Khalil, ‘there will be many more’

The President’s promise that there will be 'many more [deportations of supporters of terrorism] to come,' leading all the other Khalils on campuses from sea to shining sea to shudder in anticipation of a crackdown, has given me a warm feeling inside.

March 21, 2025

Palestinians: ‘We are dying because of Hamas’

During the past few days, many Gazans took to social media to lash out at Hamas for refusing to release all the hostages and end the war.

March 20, 2025

Israel and India must address Hamas strongholds in Malaysia – opinion

Malaysia’s anti-Israel and pro-Islamist forces now openly allow Malaysia to become a safe haven for terror.

March 20, 2025

Democrats go all in on killing Jews – opinion

Democrats and the larger cultural establishment that they represent have moved beyond pretending that they are expressing sympathy for the nebulous concept of ‘Palestinians’ and ‘innocent civilians’ and have moved on to openly associating their movement with supporters of the mass murder of Jews.

March 20, 2025

The Bibas deniers – analysis

For the emerging class of Bibas Deniers, the truth doesn’t matter. All that matters is how to absolve the killers and harm Israel.

March 19, 2025

Don’t believe the nonsense about the new Syrian president’s reform – opinion

The wishful thinking of a generation of American policymakers, at best, gave hardliners time to consolidate power and, at worst, enabled terrorism.

March 19, 2025

Is it possible to be both pro-Turkey and anti-Hamas? – opinion

Today, Turkey, not Iran, is the chief cheerleader, if not a sponsor, of Hamas.

March 19, 2025

Journo bumps Trump with boom mic — What was that all about?

Why didn’t the Secret Service take any action? How could they be sure that the incident was innocuous?

March 18, 2025

Bombing the Houthis is a good start, but a successful strategy must be broader – analysis

A combination of sustained military pressure, economic warfare, resistance support, and aggressive information operations will erode their power base and sever their lifelines.

March 18, 2025

The road to normalization with the Arab world goes through Iran – analysis

While the Trump administration has ordered strikes against the Houthis, and while Hezbollah and Hamas have been weakened by Israel, it will take time before it is safe to declare all three proxies non-threats.

March 18, 2025

Do not count on the Arabs to rebuild Gaza or help Palestinians – opinion

The truth, however, is that most of the Arab countries have always refused to receive Palestinians. Most Arabs view the Palestinians as ungrateful.

March 17, 2025

Trump’s war on woke universities is essential to fighting antisemitism – opinion

The president’s attack on these schools isn’t a war on education. It’s a battle to save education and America itself at a time when a counter-cultural revolution on the nation’s campuses is desperately needed.

March 17, 2025

Will Lebanon’s Joseph Aoun miss his opportunity to rescue Lebanon? – opinion

At issue are two important vacancies: The governor of the Lebanese Central Bank and Aoun’s successor as commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces.

March 16, 2025

Israel has powerful friends in America, but a few enemies too – analysis

Many of them see the link between the United States and Israel as one of the greatest barriers between them and their dreams of global retreat, and they want to break it.

March 16, 2025

Oman remains the weak link in the counter-Houthi fight – opinion

Oman’s relationship with the Houthis is analogous to Qatar’s relationship with Hamas and the Taliban: Muscat uses the cover of mediation to advocate for the victory of one side over another.

March 15, 2025

Iran’s mullahs can never change, never be ‘friends’

For the Iranian mullahs, hostility toward America and Israel is not just rhetoric; it is the fundamental pillar of their legitimacy.

March 15, 2025

King David’s hostage negotiations

Where Saul is held back by his insecurities as a leader, David inspires men who were on the verge of stoning him by rallying them to fight with him. Saul is stymied by political considerations while David trusts in G-d.

March 15, 2025

Reports from Gazan hell

Certain themes have been consistent in their descriptions: beatings, hunger, threats, being moved around between Palestinian families, and psychological abuse.

March 13, 2025

The Israeli left’s Gaza plan – analysis

Levi Eshkol and Yitzhak Rabin, both of the Labor Party, were on board decades ago to offer freedom for Palestinian Arabs - to emigrate elsewhere.

March 12, 2025

No one should be surprised about the Syrian massacres – analysis

A number of Syrian sources have told me in recent days that the present Islamist regime in Damascus harbours a particular hatred for Syria’s Alawis, who they habitually refer to by the insulting name of ‘Nusayris.’

March 12, 2025

The statesman among us – opinion

'Who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?'

March 9, 2025

What is Israel’s plan for Syria? – analysis

Israel views the emergent regime in Damascus as characterized by three factors: a Sunni Islamist/jihadi orientation, strong links to Turkey and relative weakness. It is acting accordingly.

March 8, 2025

Is MAGA wrong about Ukraine? – opinion

At heart, Trump is a dealmaker, and his administration is the only political entity offering to stop the killing before it expands even further into world war than it already has.

March 8, 2025

Why is mourning dead Jewish children ‘white supremacy’?

The real issue was never hair or eye color; it was Jewishness. The red hair of the Bibas children like the Aryan blond hair and blue eyed criteria are only pretexts for racializing and killing Jews.

March 7, 2025

A troubling trend: Europe cancels children’s carnival, celebrates Ramadan

That’s how the West is. Culture is being sold off. And suddenly there is nothing more important than culture, but of course not your own, but foreign culture.

March 7, 2025

Rebuilding Gaza is pointless unless Hamas is eradicated – analysis

Hamas's presence during reconstruction will only result in the emergence of the Lebanon model: Hezbollah, another Iranian proxy terror group, simply created a terrorist state-within-a-state.

March 6, 2025

America’s Hamas talks set a dangerous precedent – opinion

If engagement is unavoidable, it must operate concurrently with—not replace—efforts to destroy Hamas. The Trump administration must establish parameters if these talks continue.

March 6, 2025

The Iranian regime is hollowing out – analysis

Inside Iran, the regime is less popular than at any time in its 45-year existence. The economy is in free fall.

March 6, 2025

Impeachments and resignations suggest Iran may be readying a mad dash to a nuclear bomb – analysis

Iranian hardliners don’t embrace a 'resistance economy' for its own sake—it signals a broader defiance of the world, in this case, it means accelerating nuclear weaponization, as Khamenei sees the costs as inevitable and intends to reap the rewards.

March 5, 2025

Is Turkey holding NATO hostage to get a nuclear bomb? – analysis

Erdogan may despise NATO but he realizes his power derives from it.

March 5, 2025

With Trump’s backing, Hamas’s defeat is now possible – opinion

By having a partner in Washington who doesn’t believe that Hamas is an 'idea' that can’t be defeated but a terror group that can and should be eradicated, Netanyahu can finally start waging war on it in a way to accomplish that goal.

March 5, 2025

How the media killed itself – opinion

The media traded its old product, news coverage, for political advocacy, a product that most people don’t want and refuse to pay for, and it is running out of ways to make money from it.

March 4, 2025

Why Arabs don’t want to receive Palestinian ex-prisoners – analysis

The refusal to take in Palestinian prisoners probably arises from the fact that these countries actually do not care about the Palestinians and even consider them an ungrateful people and troublemakers.

March 3, 2025

Leftists swoon over Zelensky after his confrontation with Trump and Vance – opinion

Trump was giving Zelenskyy a grim but realistic assessment: he couldn’t defeat Russia, but he could come out with an acceptable settlement if he agreed to Trump’s ceasefire terms.

March 3, 2025

Will Bitcoin mining bring Iran down?

Electrical grid failures have escalated this winter. Iran’s electricity shortage is now the equivalent to eight Hoover Dams. The regime has resorted to burning mazut, a low-quality and heavily polluting fuel once common in the Soviet Union.

March 3, 2025

‘There was no focal point on Oct. 7′ – analysis

Ultimately, perhaps the most important conclusions from the IDF’s inquiries were about the need to preempt and take the initiative in eliminating threats as they appear.

March 2, 2025

Why sanctions alone won’t stop Iran – analysis

Unlike the army, whose mission is territorial defense, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ job is to defend the Islamic Revolution and counter enemies both foreign and domestic.

March 2, 2025

Iran’s regime: Why diplomacy and deals always fail

Unlike many other authoritarian regimes, Iran's leadership does not operate based on pragmatism or conventional realpolitik. Its actions are driven by a rigid Islamist ideology that dictates its policies, foreign and domestic.

March 1, 2025

Canadian universities normalize Islamist extremism

Universities that tolerate the normalization of extremism will produce graduates who view terrorism as a legitimate form of resistance rather than a criminal act.

February 28, 2025

Qatar’s grip on education is causing an explosion of campus antisemitism

Universities that claim to uphold academic freedom must be held accountable for their financial ties to foreign regimes that openly undermine the very values they profess to teach.

February 27, 2025

What country would accept relocated Gazans?

Few nations are interested in taking residents of Gaza because Palestinians have worn out their welcome wherever they have gone.

February 27, 2025

Egypt reopened its Rafah border crossing to Gaza

Egypt’s arms buildup: Was the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel a success? – analysis

Ten days ago, Egypt released a video showing its army’s military capabilities, which includes hundreds of tanks, fighter jets, helicopters, and navy vessels.

February 27, 2025

Israel was right to stick with Trump at the UN – opinion

As Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine said in 2023, Kyiv votes against Israel more than 90% of the time and has come down on the side of antisemitic discrimination at the world body more often than not. How then can Ukraine’s fans condemn Israel’s voting?

February 27, 2025

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