Israel regards Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, as one of its closest friends. But on March 2, as the United States and Israel intensified their military campaign in Iran, he surprised Israel with a slip of the tongue, opening a Pandora’s box that set off an impassioned debate which may yet damage Israel’s […]
The current war in Iran has spilled into Lebanon, much to Iran’s satisfaction. Hezbollah, a creation of Iran and Iran’s chief proxy in the Middle East, is dragging Lebanon into a war yet again, despite having assured the Lebanese government that it would not intervene on behalf of Iran if U.S. and Israeli strikes remained […]
Until his assassination, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme ruler of the Islamic Republic of Iran, was the longest-serving head of state in the Middle East. He was killed by Israel and the United States in a joint operation on February 28. The air strike on his compound in Tehran took place shortly after U.S. President […]
Iran’s highly controversial nuclear program has ignited Israel’s second war with Iran in less than a year. It broke out on February 28, when the United States and Israel attacked the Islamic Republic of Iran in a preemptive offensive intended to destroy its military and nuclear capabilities and decapitate its leadership. Within hours of the […]
By any yardstick, Narendra Modi’s most recent visit to Israel, his second in nine years, seems to have been an unqualified success. The prime minister of India, the world’s most populous democracy, spent two days in Israel, one of the few democracies in the Middle East. He conferred with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his […]
Sweden hewed to a policy of neutrality during World War II, but Swedish industrialists profited from the conflict by selling iron ore and ball bearings to Nazi Germany, thereby enabling it to press on with the war. Sweden, too, allowed German troop trains to pass through its territory, all in the service of placating Germany […]
The longest and most destructive war in Europe since World War II grinds on remorselessly, exacting a horrendous toll in Russian and Ukrainian lives. When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he was apparently confident that his “special military operation” would succeed. Four years on, it has degenerated […]
The Ontario Camps Association should be commended for having categorically rejected an arrogant and unreasonable demand by a coalition of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizations to strip the accreditation of 17 overnight Jewish children’s summer camps in Canada due to their support of and connection to Israel. These anti-Israel groups, ranging from the Palestinian Canadian Congress […]
An Israeli documentary, Deep Inside Iran, adds an additional layer of substance and understanding to Israel’s 12-day war with Iran last June. Now available on Izzy, a streaming platform specializing in Israeli films, this 56-minute movie is constructed around an interview with an Iranian Mossad agent who secretly worked inside Iran during that conflict. The […]
Four months after its formation, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace convened its first official meeting in Washington, D.C. on February 17. It went reasonably well, but serious problems lie ahead. Trump, in a flourish of enthusiasm, announced pledges of $7 billion from Arab allies such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar and $10 billion […]