Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on July 28 unfolded against the backdrop of their divergent priorities regarding the lingering war in Iran. Netanyahu seeks a more aggressive approach to Iran, being intent on finishing a war that was paused by a ceasefire that has been repeatedly broken […]
New York mayor Zohran Mamdani engaged in political theater when he recently reiterated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal and should be arrested if he sets foot in the city. Netanyahu intends to travel to New York to attend the new session of the United Nations General Assembly, which opens on […]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the face of the Islamic Republic of Iran for eight years. As Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013, he brutally suppressed domestic protests, constantly called for Israel’s destruction, and perversely denied the Holocaust. He played a central role in the formation of the Axis of Resistance, the regional alliance arrayed against Israel, […]
A prominent Jewish American has dispensed a message of tough love to Israel. It is worth listening to. Rahm Emanuel was in Israel earlier this month to deliver a sober and blunt speech at Tel Aviv University about the future of Israel’s relationship with its greatest ally, the United States. “I flew here from Chicago […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was recently in Jeddah to drum up business with Saudi Arabia, a wealthy and influential Arab state. He was the first leader from Canada to visit this oil-rich Arab nation in 26 years. While there, he met Saudi leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discussed plans to deepen cooperation […]
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee who was contesting the U.S. Senate race in Maine, was a problematic candidate from the very start, yet his blatant shortcomings were willfully dismissed or ignored by the powers that be in his party. As the news site Axios noted in a prescient observation, he was “a walking time bomb.” […]
The latest tit-for-tat skirmishes between the United States and Iran, plus the bitter war of words these battles have set off, point to one inescapable conclusion. The memorandum of understanding these longtime adversaries signed last month is falling apart and may crumble altogether. As the five-day state funeral of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei […]
The lengthy funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, has been an elaborate and extended spectacle projecting strength, national unity, stability, continuity and vengeance after two successive wars with the United States and Israel within a year. Iran’s uncompromising message is mainly directed at the U.S., whose military bases in the region it […]
In a decision presumably driven by its currently abysmal relations with Turkey, Israel recently recognized the Armenian genocide. “It’s never too late to do the right thing,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote on X after the Israeli cabinet unanimously adopted this resolution, which has yet to be approved by the Knesset. Calling the recognition a […]
Three left-wing candidates endorsed by New York’s anti-Zionist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won Democratic Party primaries on June 23, upending politics in the city and underscoring Israel’s rapidly declining image and standing in the United States. In what was described as a pro-Palestinian sweep, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier won progressive districts in […]