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, 2025Analysis & Opinion
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’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, 2025Time to bring down the curtain on Iran’s terror axis
Overshadowing all of this is Iran's obsession with getting nuclear weapons -- which the regime may not hesitate to use, either directly or as a threat.
February 26, 2025
The Trump revolution in the Middle East has just begun – analysis
If Trump successfully manages to overcome the pressures and obstacles placed in front of him, what he is setting in motion today can magnificently transform the Middle East.
February 26, 2025
IDF strikes Hezbollah ‘strategic weapons’ facility in Lebanon, multiple sites in southern Syria
Israeli fighter jets hit southern Syrian 'military targets,' including 'command centers and multiple sites containing weapons,' over the course of several hours, the Israel Defense Forces stated.
February 26, 2025
There won’t be peace in Ukraine – opinion
The Russians and Ukrainians want to fight each other because they genuinely hate each other.
February 25, 2025
Hamas’s October 7 massacre is part of its jihad to destroy Israel
For Hamas, 'liberation' means the elimination of Israel through Jihad and 'armed resistance' (terrorism).
February 24, 2025
What do young Gazans want? – analysis
Before the war, 44% of young Gazans were considering leaving the Strip.
February 24, 2025
Searching for condemnations in the Muslim world
The single condemnation at an interfaith panel, like the fake quotes of the grand muftis, shows that there is no larger rejection of the Hamas coffin spectacle in the Muslim world.
February 24, 2025
Pouring salt on the wound: Will the US legal system protect terrorists?
The Supreme Court’s decision will have significant and lasting implications for the ability of American victims of terrorism to seek justice in U.S. courts against foreign sponsors of terror.
February 23, 2025
Why there should not be a Palestine – opinion
Any attempt at constructive state-building has been ground into dust by corruption, murderous factionalism, and the unabashed worship of violence.
February 23, 2025
Trump must abandon the disastrous ceasefire deal with Hamas – opinion
Any agreement that allows Hamas to reclaim control over Gaza, while at the same time being allowed to publicly humiliate the hostages when they are finally released, is clearly fundamentally flawed, and should not be allowed to proceed to the next stage.
February 23, 2025
Is Israel preparing to strike Iran’s nuclear sites?
Israel has the motivation, and the capacity, to strike a severe blow at the Iranian nuclear program, using its air power, and perhaps also with the involvement of its special forces.
February 22, 2025
Confirming Patel
A thoroughgoing housecleaning appears to be in the offing — unless the deep state that Patel will be targeting manages to defeat him in a head-on confrontation.
February 21, 2025
The child murderers of Gaza
What happened in Gaza was not the doing of a small ‘extremist’ group but the Islamic ideology of hundreds of millions of people in the Middle East and around the world—including in the U.S.
February 21, 2025
Syrian army enters Lebanon to take on Hezbollah
The Syrians have not forgotten that during the civil war, Hezbollah was a key supporter of the hated dictator Bashar al-Assad, and helped to keep him in power when he seemed, at times, to be toppling.
February 20, 2025
Why Trump must insist on removing Hamas from power – opinion
Ignoring Hamas's threats to stay in power and continue jihad means that there will be more October 7-style massacres of Israelis.
February 19, 2025
Is there a Jewish exception to the Red Cross? – analysis
The ICRC’s willingness to sacrifice its mission upon its antipathy toward Jews is not a one-time occurrence.
February 18, 2025
Judicial coup in America? – analysis
Federal judges are abusing the APA’s interdiction of 'capricious' rulemaking by bureaucrats to block policies that are coming directly from the White House for entirely well-known reasons.
February 18, 2025
Why the IDF is remaining in five key posts in southern Lebanon – analysis
The five locations represent critical defensive outposts to secure northern Israeli communities, some of which suffer from topographical inferiority due to being surrounded by higher Lebanese hills and mountains to their north.
February 18, 2025
‘Hamas is on Gaza border, we’re back to Oct. 6th’ – analyst
'Have we really crushed Hamas and changed the rules of the game? The answer right now is no,' Yehezkeli wrote.
February 18, 2025
Don’t be fooled: The Palestinian Authority did not halt payments to terrorists
The Palestinian Authority has made it clear that it is making this change not because it believes it is wrong to fund terror, but because it needs US money.
February 17, 2025
Iran: Gravy train to Africa – analysis
A big target is Nigeria, where Tehran claims that its surrogates led by Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaki have converted over 20 million people to the creed of Twelver Shiism over the past decades, at a low cost of $1 billion.
February 17, 2025