Saudi Arabia pulls back as Hamas gains ground

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's recent comments disparaging Saudi involvement, saying, "Let the Saudis ride camels", dealt a serious blow to both negotiations with the kingdom on future diplomatic arrangements and Israel's broader standing in...

The Palestinian question can no longer be ignored

The war in Gaza has not ended; it has changed its shape. What began as a brutal confrontation has now hardened into a political and geographic experiment, one whose contours may define the region’s...

After Trump’s Peace Israel, Jihadi-Terror And “Power Over Death”

It’s not bewildering. Merely to be born augurs badly for eternal life. Still, in their desperation to live perpetually, some human societies and civilizations have embraced a panoply of faith-based promises exchanging “life everlasting” for...

The westerners helping Hamas win the propaganda war

After two years of war, and despite Israel’s many successes on the battlefield, Hamas can also claim a kind of victory – at least for now. The terror group has survived and is once...

Trump’s Sharm-el-Sheikh Doctrine: Containment Over Collapse in the New Iran Equation

SummaryPresident Donald Trump’s Sharm-el-Sheikh peace initiative marks a critical recalibration of U.S. policy toward Iran. Once dominated by talk of regime change, the new framework favors containment and calculated de-escalation. Tehran, weakened by sanctions,...

The US-led Gaza force is not working; Trump must let Israel act

At the Civil-Military Coordination Center being set up in recent days and hours in southern Israel, there's a special department tracking media reports. I witnessed this during my Friday visit. My hope is that...

Hamas has 20,000 armed terrorists, hundreds of rockets, IDF estimates

More than two years after the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7th, Hamas still has roughly 20,000 men under arms in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military estimates. According to a report published Tuesday...

Trump considers release of Palestinian arch-terrorist Barghouti from Israeli prison in Gaza ceasefire agreement

U.S. President Donald Trump revealed that he had considered supporting the release of Marwan Barghouti – a convicted terrorist viewed by many Palestinians as a potential unifying leader – as part of a ceasefire...

Was Binyamin Netanyahu Born ‘Pregnant’?

In his 1978 memoir, In Search of Enemies, former CIA station chief John Stockwell offered a sickening insight into the agency’s operational doctrine. He described a plan to compromise Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who had...