Israel has a sophisticated multilayered air defence system to detect and destroy short-range rockets and drones and medium- and long-range missiles. These systems, comprising the Iron Dome, David’s Sling and the Arrow, have been remarkably effective in downing enemy projectiles launched by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Iran. But in […]
Israel carried out a calibrated retaliatory strike against Iran in the early hours of October 26, marking the fourth time since April that these bitter enemies have clashed in a direct confrontation. The question now is whether Iran, Israel’s deadliest foe, will respond in kind. Iran faces a quandary. If it retaliates, Israel would most […]
Three decades on, Israel’s historic peace treaty with Jordan remains fundamentally intact, though it has been buffeted and damaged by a series of events from almost the outset. Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan formally entered into a state of peace on October 26, 1994 in a ceremony in the southern Negev Desert brimming […]
By insisting that the year-long Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip has run its course and should be wound down, the United States is jumping the gun. Of late, U.S. President Joe Biden has repeatedly called for a ceasefire that, he hopes, would lead to several desirable outcomes: the end of the war, the release […]
Nearly three weeks after Israel’s invasion of southern Lebanon, its fourth since 1978, Israeli political and military leaders have enunciated a strategic doctrine to ensure that its northern border will be as safe as possible from Hezbollah aggression in the future. Israel launched its operation on September 30, three days after its assassination of Hezbollah […]
Yahya Sinwar, the ruthless mastermind of last year’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, got his comeuppance on the 377th day of the war he ignited in the Gaza Strip. On October 16, he was killed by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, the last city in Gaza to be stormed and occupied by Israel. He and […]
Canada, in tandem with the United States, has finally followed the lead of Germany, Holland and Israel and designated Samidoun, known as the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, as a terrorist entity under the Criminal Code. The federal Liberal government made its belated announcement yesterday, shortly after the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic, Michael Chong, raised […]
One of the net effects of Hamas’ terrorist attacks in southern Israel on October 7 last year is a marked tilt toward extremism in the ranks of Palestinian activists in the Middle East and the United States. Surveys indicate that most Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank supported the massacre and no […]
Even a year later, the massacre of October 7 is still difficult to fathom. In just a matter of hours, 3,000 Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip penetrated the fortified border and killed about 1,200 civilians and soldiers in southern Israel in the single blackest day in Israel’s history. The Israelis who survived this atrocity […]
Donald Trump will no doubt dislike Ali Abbasi’s movie, The Apprentice, with a passion. Scheduled to open in Canadian theaters on October 11, this is a searingly scalding and compelling portrait of an egotistical and relentlessly ambitious New York City real estate tycoon reaching for the top. Focusing exclusively on his career before his foray […]