British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent decision to suspend the export of some weapons to Israel was disappointing but not surprising. Starmer, the leader of the left-of-center Labor Party, is far more critical of Israel than his right-wing Conservative predecessor, Rishi Sunak, who was generally supportive of Israel’s just military campaign to eradicate Hamas and […]
The recovery of six deceased hostages on August 31 in a Hamas tunnel under the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah has further divided Israel. This combustible issue has torn the country asunder far more than Israel’s acceptance of German reparations in the 1950s, its lack of preparedness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War, its […]
As Israel fights Palestinian forces in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli troops have been drawn into a third front in the West Bank, which is inhabited by three million Palestinians and 500,000 Israelis. In the past few days, Israel has conducted significant counter-terrorism operations in the northern West Bank in a bid […]
Nearly a month after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran has yet to fulfill its pledge to attack Israel in a retaliatory strike. Israel did not take formal responsibility for his death, but Iran is absolutely certain that Israel assassinated him, an assumption that rings true. Israel, however, had no hesitation […]
The relatively limited preemptive strikes by Israel in southern Lebanon in the early hours of August 25 appear to have dealt Hezbollah, Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle East, a punishing blow. Israel went on the offensive after learning that Hezbollah was on the cusp of launching a massive rocket and drone attack. The Israeli […]
Even as it is enmeshed in a multi-front war in the Middle East, Israel is busy creating facts on the ground in the West Bank to ensure that a Palestinian state is never established. Several days ago, an Israeli government agency, the Civil Administration, allotted 148 acres of land for Nahal Heletz, which will be […]
Optics matter, and yesterday, after Israeli aircraft bombed a Hamas command center in Gaza City where displaced Palestinian civilians were sheltering in place, the optics indeed looked bad for Israel. Around 90 or more Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in the air strike, and inevitably, Israel was subjected to a wave of international […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put it best. “Challenging days” lie ahead for Israel as it braces for an armed response from Iran and its regional proxies following its recent assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief political figure in Hamas, and Fuad Shukr, the highest-ranking military commander of Hezbollah. This is indeed is one of Israel’s […]
Ayman Safadi, the foreign minister of Jordan, never fails to be hostile to Israel. Since the October 7 rampage by Hamas in southern Israel, he has lashed out at Israel repeatedly, falsely claiming that it has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip. Presumably, his opinion is shared by King Abdullah II, who has been cool […]
Israel has eliminated two of its most formidable enemies in virtually one fell swoop. On July 30, Israel announced that Fuad Shukr, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander, had been killed in Beirut in retaliation for a drone strike he ordered that caused the deaths of 12 Druse children and young adults in the Golan Heights […]