Mark Carney has spoken to or met dozens of world leaders since succeeding Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister last year. Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, is glaringly absent from that list. Later this month, Carney will reportedly visit Turkey to meet President Recep Tayyip ​Erdogan, in what would be the first dedicated […]
The single blackest day in Israel’s history, Hamas’ attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, has become a contentious campaign issue less than a month before the October 27 general election. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents hold him personally responsible for this massive intelligence failure. Their argument is bolstered by reports that Egypt and […]
Public opinion polls in Israel indicate that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition is likely to fall short of winning a 61-seat majority in the 120-member Knesset, leaving him unable to form a government after the October 27 general election. The center-right opposition, led by Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, appears to be […]
Hamas launched its invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023 with the broad intention of igniting a regional war whose end result would be Israel’s destruction. While Hamas clearly failed to destroy Israel, which has since grown stronger and more assertive, Hamas’ leadership nonetheless managed to drag its allies in Iran’s Axis of Resistance […]
Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, is flogging a dead horse. Ben Gvir, the leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit Party, is trying to revive a dangerous idea that has no chance of being implemented and, furthermore, would bring the wrath of the region and the international community on Israel. On September 3, he […]
The United States, having failed to squeeze Iran into submission by military means, is now trying to achieve this objective through economic means. Its change in emphasis was underscored by three events in the past few days. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that the United States does not plan to launch new offensive […]
Since the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Israel has repeatedly struck military bases and equipment in Syria and seized territory in the southern part of the country to protect its northern border. Last week, in one of its boldest and most provocative moves, Israel bombed Abu al-Duhur, an empty Syrian air […]
On August 8, a day after Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan announced the formation of a joint defence pact, Pakistani Defence Minister Khawaja Asif spoke bluntly. Claiming that Israel is an “illegitimate state” and a “threat to the entire Muslim world,” he called for a “united military front” against the Jewish state. Asif’s inflammatory comments, […]
Iran lost the war militarily, but may prevail politically. Nearly six months after the United States and Israel launched joint air strikes in Iran, killing a significant proportion of its political and military leadership and massively degrading its armed forces, the Iranian regime has maneuvered U.S. President Donald Trump into a strategic cul-de-sac. Trump initiated […]
Donald Trump is bound to be disappointed, if not angry, by Israel’s negative reaction to his recent announcement regarding the prospects of peace in the Gaza Strip. On July 29, nine days after Khalil al-Hayya was elected Hamas’ new political chieftain, Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to give up its weapons during future negotiations […]