Middle East

The discussion at the UN last month was meant to promote what is widely-known as the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Within this framework, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was supposed to be formally...

Yossi Katz, The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity: The Jewish National Fund and the History of State Ownership of Land in Israel, (De Gruyter-Oldenbourg, Berlin, 2016), 237 pp. The ownership, zoning, and future development...

More than anything else, Israel’s survival requires intellectual supremacy. Though difficult to measure, such supremacy is necessary to preserving the country’s tactical and strategic advantages. Although generally overlooked, superior weapons technologies could never be adequate per...

Many are breathing a massive sigh of relief now that the last of the living hostages abducted by Hamas on October 7, 2023 has been returned home. Once the remains of all the captives...

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 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...