Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally released a plan for post-war Gaza on February 23, but it was like old wine in a new bottle. Nearly four months after Israel launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, following Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners in southern Israel on October 7, Netanyahu belatedly laid out […]
Iran has reportedly warned its chief proxy in the Middle East, Hezbollah, not to escalate its low-intensity war with Israel along the Lebanese border. According to The Washington Post, Iran told its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, that an escalation would play into Israel’s hands and nullify the gains that Iran’s Axis of Resistance has made since […]
Israel is facing tremendous international pressure to cancel a pending military campaign in Rafah, a Hamas stronghold and the last city in the Gaza Strip yet to conquered and occupied by the Israeli army. Having stormed Gaza City and Khan Younis, and having bombed several Palestinian refugee camps in central Gaza, Israel appears to be […]
It is questionable whether the latest U.S. retaliatory air and missile strikes against pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen will curb their aggression. Working in tandem with Iran, their wily puppet master, these surrogates remain undeterred and are hell-bent on launching fresh attacks against American military bases and ships, all in the hope of […]
Benjamin Netanyahu has defiantly rejected a Hamas counter-proposal to end the current war in the Gaza Strip, dismissing it as “delusional” and “ludicrous” and claiming that “total victory” is “within reach” after four months of fighting. U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to agree with Netanyahu’s dismissive appraisal, saying that Hamas’ offer “seems to be a […]
As the fourth month of the Israel-Hamas war fast approaches, the Israeli government is seriously considering the possibility of invading Rafah, the only city in the Gaza Strip that Israel’s ground forces have yet to reach and occupy. While the Israeli Air Force has bombed Hamas sites in Rafah, the most southerly city in Gaza, […]
In the face of damning evidence that Hamas committed mass murder in southern Israel on October 7, Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, recently released a 16-page report denying that it deliberately targeted and killed civilians on that darkest of days. Our Narrative, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, released a few days ago in Arabic and […]
The Middle East has been convulsed by unprecedented spasms of violence in the past few weeks, and to no one’s surprise, Iran and its proxies have been at the center of this ongoing turbulence. Amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and a low-intensity war pitting Israel against Hezbollah in and around Lebanon, clashes […]
Israel and the United States are increasingly at odds over the direction of the current war in the Gaza Strip and what comes after it. These divisions emerged with a vengeance during U.S. Secretary of State Atony Blinken’s visit to Israel earlier this month, his fourth in a little more than three months. But they […]
As the war in the Gaza Strip drags on and approaches its fourth month, Israel faces an unsettling dilemma with major implications for its security. Should skilled and unskilled Palestinian workers from the West Bank and Gaza be allowed to resume their jobs in Israel following the mass murder of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners by […]