Benjamin Netanyahu has defiantly rejected a Hamas counter-proposal to end the current war in the Gaza Strip, dismissing it as “delusional” and “ludicrous” and claiming that “total victory” is “within reach” after four months of fighting. U.S. President Joe Biden appeared to agree with Netanyahu’s dismissive appraisal, saying that Hamas’ offer “seems to be a […]
As the fourth month of the Israel-Hamas war fast approaches, the Israeli government is seriously considering the possibility of invading Rafah, the only city in the Gaza Strip that Israel’s ground forces have yet to reach and occupy. While the Israeli Air Force has bombed Hamas sites in Rafah, the most southerly city in Gaza, […]
In the face of damning evidence that Hamas committed mass murder in southern Israel on October 7, Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, recently released a 16-page report denying that it deliberately targeted and killed civilians on that darkest of days. Our Narrative, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, released a few days ago in Arabic and […]
The Middle East has been convulsed by unprecedented spasms of violence in the past few weeks, and to no one’s surprise, Iran and its proxies have been at the center of this ongoing turbulence. Amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and a low-intensity war pitting Israel against Hezbollah in and around Lebanon, clashes […]
Israel and the United States are increasingly at odds over the direction of the current war in the Gaza Strip and what comes after it. These divisions emerged with a vengeance during U.S. Secretary of State Atony Blinken’s visit to Israel earlier this month, his fourth in a little more than three months. But they […]
As the war in the Gaza Strip drags on and approaches its fourth month, Israel faces an unsettling dilemma with major implications for its security. Should skilled and unskilled Palestinian workers from the West Bank and Gaza be allowed to resume their jobs in Israel following the mass murder of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners by […]
Since the eruption of the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip more than three months ago, the United States, Israel’s chief ally, has struggled to prevent it from spreading to the rest of the Middle East. To deter Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen from intervening in the war Israel is […]
Jewish settlers in the West Bank have been quietly establishing “facts on the ground” since Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on October 7 and murdered 1,200 people in an unprecedented rampage which triggered the fifth war in the Gaza Strip in 15 years. Israel, meanwhile, has been conducting a counter-terrorism campaign in the West Bank […]
From the moment that Israel was brutally attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, Hamas leaders and field commanders in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere were on notice that their days were numbered. The assassination of Hamas’ deputy leader, Saleh al-Arouri, on January 2 lends credence to this assessment. Arouri, 57, and several of his […]
Hezbollah, the pro-Iranian Lebanese militia, has been embroiled in a low-intensity war with Israel in support of Hamas since October 8, the day after some 3,000 Hamas terrorists broke through Israel’s fortified border fence and ransacked communities in southern Israel, killing 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and kidnapping 240 civilians and soldiers. Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, […]