Iran faces a defining moment of truth following Israel’s audacious assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut on September 27. Nasrallah’s untimely death, a major castastrophe for Hezbollah, was an extremely severe blow to Iran. By all accounts, his removal from the scene elicited shock, anger and sorrow in Tehran. In one devastating stroke, […]
In the wake of Hamas’ October 7 massacre in southern Israel, pro-Hamas Palestinian demonstrators and their supporters condemned Israel as a “colonial settler state.” This false and outrageous claim runs counter to a glaringly inconvenient fact: Jews are indigenous to the Middle East and lived in the Land of Israel long before the emergence of […]
With the game-changing death of its long-serving secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah has been dealt a devastating blow in its long-running armed confrontation with Israel. He was killed on September 27 after Israeli aircraft dropped bunker-busting bombs on Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Dahiya, a southern suburb of Beirut. Four to six high-rise residential buildings were […]
Israel is fighting a two-front war along its southern and northern borders, battling Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both of which are Iranian proxies. But far in the east, in Iraq, Israel faces another enemy in the guise of the Islamic Resistance movement, a member of Iran’s fiercely anti-Israel Axis of […]
Israel and Hezbollah have boxed themselves into a tight corner as the cross-border conflict in Lebanon and the Galilee intensifies and approaches the magnitude of an all-out war. In the past few days, both sides have hammered each other ferociously and relentlessly, with the scale of the fighting having reached the level of the 2006 […]
When I learned that Grace Feuerverger had written her memoir, I was intrigued. What could she possibly say? I wondered. Full disclosure: I have known Grace, my oldest friend’s sister, sporadically since 1958, when she was eight years old. Yet in virtually every respect, Grace — a quiet, soft-spoken and reclusive girl — was practically […]
Donald Trump has been spouting verbal diarrhea of late. Speaking at two Jewish campaign events in the last few days, the former U.S. president and Republican Party presidential nominee claimed that American Jews would be mostly to blame if he lost November’s election to his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. “If I don’t win […]
Toward the end of the 1990s, I interviewed Moshe Katsav, who was then Israel’s minister of tourism in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s first government. Little did I know that he would soon be the president of Israel, a position he held from 2000 to 2007. Born in Iran, Katsav immigrated to Israel, along with his […]
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has announced a “new phase” in Israel’s nearly year-long war of attrition with Hezbollah. It could well lead to a full-scale war with Hezbollah and possibly trigger a regional conflagration involving the United States, Iran, the Houthis in Yemen and pro-Iranian militias in Iraq. In short, a significant escalation of […]
The federal government of Canada faces a quandary. Should it abide by a request from the Jewish community and release the still secret second part of Justice Jules Deschenes’ Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada? Or should it heed the advice of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress and keep it confidential? This extremely sensitive […]