Trevor Noah, the host of the popular television program, The Daily Show, got himself into hot water the other day by implicitly advising Israel to lie down and play dead in reacting to naked aggression by Hamas. In the past seven days, Hamas has fired more than 3,000 rockets at Israel, twice as many as […]
Itamar Ben-Gvir is a disgrace to himself and Israel. This extreme right-wing member of the Knesset is a malignant agitator who has been fanning the flames of the most serious outbreak of civil unrest in Israel since its establishment as an independent state. As Jews and Arabs clash in inter-communal violence of the sort that […]
Synagogues are set alight by arsonists. An elderly Arab man is killed. A Jewish soldier is viciously beaten. A Jewish police officer is shot. A Jewish family is attacked. A fish restaurant and a hotel owned by Jews are torched. A pregnant Arab woman is seriously injured by a rock thrown at her head. An […]
What seems clear from the latest round of fighting in and around the Gaza Strip is that Hamas has improved its military capabilities since its last war with Israel seven years ago. In the last few days, Hamas has fired a barrage of more than 1,600 rockets at Israel. Some have landed as far away […]
Israel is embroiled in a new and dangerous round of fighting with the Palestinians on three separate fronts. For the past few days, Israeli forces have been engaged in battles with Palestinian Arab protesters in East Jerusalem, the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip, and Israeli Arabs of Palestinian descent. The violence, probably […]
It’s debatable at the moment whether the United States and Iran can overcome their sharp differences and return to compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement. Talks in Vienna aimed at restoring it have been going on for five weeks now, but a breakthrough is far from from assured. Donald Trump, the former U.S. president, pulled out […]
Human Rights Watch recently released a damning 213-page report condemning Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank and its own Arab citizens. The world’s oldest human rights organization accused Israel of the crimes of apartheid and persecution. The report was written by Omar Shakir, its Israel and Palestine director. Expelled from Israel in 2019, he […]
Once bitten, twice shy. Mahmoud Abbas, the 85-year-old president of the Palestinian Authority and the leader of the mainstream Fatah party, was taking no chances. On April 29, he postponed the Palestinian parliamentary election, which was due to be held on May 22. This came as no surprise to observers. Abbas has been wary of […]
Efforts to revive the dormant 2015 Iran nuclear agreement are currently underway, even as Israel and Iran, its arch enemy, clash periodically in a shadow war that has escalated of late. The agreement’s signatories — Iran, the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany — convened in Vienna on April 6 to breathe new […]
More than ten days have elapsed since the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was shaken by allegations that King Abdullah II’s estranged half brother, Prince Hamzah bin Hussein, was involved in a plot to undermine the government. In the hours after this news rocked Jordan, a beacon of stability in the Middle East for the past […]