The nearly one-month-old war pitting the United States and Israel against Iran shows no signs of letting up, but President Donald Trump is clearly trying to end it on his own terms. Over the past few days, as U.S. and Israeli aircraft have continued to bomb Iran, Trump has issued both optimistic and threatening pronouncements. […]
Israel has absorbed four rounds of punishing Iranian ballistic missile and drone bombardments since the spring of 2024. Although Israel has managed to intercept about 90 percent of the projectiles, the few that have gotten through have caused damage and claimed lives, proving that even the best air defence system is not 100 percent hermetic. […]
The summer Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 presented West Germany with a golden opportunity to welcome visitors to the “new” Germany. A quarter of a century after the fall of Adolf Hitler’s genocidal Nazi regime, which persecuted and murdered German and European Jews before and during the Holocaust, Germans could finally try to put […]
Arab Gulf states are shocked and dismayed that they have been continually targeted by Iran during its war with the United States and Israel. Since its outbreak on February 28, Iran has fired roughly 1,300 ballistic missiles and 2,500 drones at the Persian Gulf. Approximately 60 percent of Iranian projectiles have been aimed at countries […]
Israel is currently embroiled in a two-front war. As Israeli jets pound Iran, Israel hammers Hezbollah in Lebanon. The war north of Israel’s border has been overshadowed by the joint U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Iran, but Israel’s operations in Lebanon are equally vital for its long-term peace and security. Hezbollah, Iran’s chief regional proxy, launched […]
Joe Kent’s abrupt resignation as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in Washington, D.C., represents an inflection point in the Republican Party’s evolving attitude toward U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran in a joint military operation with Israel. Kent, the first senior member of the Trump administration to voluntarily leave his post, resigned […]
Canada’s normally peaceful and placid facade has been violently ripped away by a wave of arson, vandalism, shootings and firebombings directed at Jews and the Jewish community from coast to coast. Since Hamas’ attack in Israel on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip three weeks later, antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed […]
The late Bella Abzug aroused strong reactions. “She was loved and definitely hated,” says her daughter, Liz, in a succinct summation. A brash and flamboyant American social activist and politician who served in the House of Representatives in the 1970s, Abzug is the subject of the ironically titled Bella! This Woman’s Place Is In The […]
The Al-Quds Day rally, an annual venue for anti-Israel rhetoric, took place in front of the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto on March 14 as a war in the Middle East raged. It almost never happened. A day before, Premier Doug Ford of Ontario instructed Attorney General Doug Downey to issue an injunction to stop […]
The third season of Tehran treats viewers to the usual dose of thrills, spills and chills against the backdrop of Israel’s existential conflict with Iran. It has been available on Apple TV in North America since January, but I belatedly caught up with the eight-part series several days ago. Tehran plays out amid bursts of […]