Israel and the United States have warned Hezbollah, Iran’s supreme surrogate in the Middle East, to stay out of the current war pitting the Israeli armed forces against Hamas in and around the Gaza Strip. But for all intents and purposes, the war on the northern front already has begun. Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant […]
Joe Biden, the president of the United States, was hailed as a “true friend” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his unprecedented whirlwind visit to Israel yesterday. Netanyahu, whose relations with Biden deteriorated after he unveiled unwise and unpopular proposals to overhaul Israel’s judiciary, was absolutely correct. By visiting Israel during one of its darkest […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi got two things very wrong in his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Cairo recently. First, he claimed that Israel has “exceeded” its right to self-defence in its ongoing military campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Second, he said that Jews in Egypt have never been […]
The specter of a two-front war bleakly confronts Israel as it prepares to launch a massive invasion of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to topple the pro-Iranian Hamas regime, destroy its military infrastructure, capabilities and network of tunnels, and kill its leaders and foot soldiers. While Israel appears ready to deal Hamas a crushing […]
The catastrophic Israeli intelligence and military failure that enabled some 3,000 Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip to breach Israel’s security fence and kill 1,400 civilians, soldiers and policemen and abduct 199 hostages within a matter of hours will haunt Israel for decades to come. The October 7 attack was like a bolt out of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to Hamas’ ferocious terrorist attack on Israel last week, the worst in Israeli history, has left the Israeli government bitterly disappointed and most likely disillusioned. Neither Putin nor Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have directly condemned Hamas nor have they phoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to express their condolences for the […]
Since Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas last week, the United States has come through with flying colors in terms of its strong and unambiguous political and military support for its greatest ally in the Middle East. Within hours of Hamas’ murderous rampage in southern Israel, which so far has claimed the lives of 1,300 […]
Within days of the launch of Israel’s ongoing counter-offensive in the Gaza Strip, following the unprecedented savagery committed by cold-blooded Hamas terrorists in southern Israel on October 7, insistent calls were heard from a variety of quarters about the urgent necessity for a truce to stop the fighting. “We call on the Palestinian and Israeli […]
No irrefutable evidence of Iran’s operational involvement in Hamas’ devastating attack on Israel on October 7 has so far emerged, notwithstanding a report in the Wall Street Journal that the Iranian regime assisted Hamas in planning it. But analysts are certain that the onslaught — which caught Israel off guard and unprepared, caused the deaths […]
Hamas stands nakedly exposed as a deliberate perpetrator of war crimes. During its unprecedented murderous rampage through Israeli communities in southern Israel on October 7, which has so far claimed the lives of some 800 Israelis, Hamas terrorists pouring forth like wolves from the Gaza Strip not only killed soldiers, but targeted civilians in a […]