Over the past week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has changed his mind countless times regarding how and when he will implement Israel’s sovereignty plan
Bolton’s Temper Tantrum
Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton’s critics routinely refer to him as a neoconservative. But they are wrong. Bolton was never part of the
The UAE Ambassador Has No Business Threatening Israel
Many Israeli media outlets hailed United Arab Emirates U.S. Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba’s decision to publish an article in Yediot Ahronot
Time for Trump to be Trump, at Home and Abroad
Donald Trump was elected four years ago because Americans wanted to save their country. Both in domestic and foreign policy, in the eighth year of Barack Obama
The Great Threat to America — and to American Jewry
Scattered among the thousands of cellphone videos depicting looting and destruction in the streets of America’s greatest cities are clips of a different sort.
Abbas’ Empty, Worn-Out Threats
Palestinian Authority and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently announced that the P.A. is renouncing the peace deals it signed with Israel along with its
Jordanian King Abdullah’s Empty Threats
Should Jordan’s King Abdullah have veto power over Israel’s plan to apply its sovereign laws to its cities, towns and villages in Judea and Samaria and to the
The ‘Legal’ Landmine on the Road to Israeli Sovereignty
There is a landmine on the road to Israeli sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria. It must be defused before it blows up Israel’s efforts to secure its
The Final Days of the Iran Nuclear Deal
There is a growing chance that by October, the nuclear deal with Iran, otherwise known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will be dead.
Pandemics, Palestinian Incitement and Peace
A few weeks ago, officials in Israel’s Health Ministry were calling for Israel to “medically annex Judea and Samaria” for the duration of the coronavirus
Israel and Trump’s War on the Coronavirus
The presidency of Donald Trump has shaped coalition talks between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz. For weeks,
Coronavirus Lessons For Coalition Talks
We are living through a grave crisis. And crises have a knack for clarifying fundamental truths. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed several of them.
Israel and the Demise of the Global Village
In the face of the steeply rising number of coronavirus patients and the breakneck speed of political changes in Israel, few people have stopped to notice that
What Happened to the Israeli Left?
MK Ofer Shelah from the Blue and White party is the architect of his party’s current efforts to form a government with the support of Joint Arab List. If
Democrats and Anti-Democrats
The day after Israel’s latest Knesset elections, Democrats in fourteen states in the US voted in Super Tuesday. This year’s Democratic
Gaza, Elections and the Corbynization of the Democratic Party
The hundred rockets and missiles that Gazan terrorists launched into Israel this week served as yet another reminder that we have an account to manage with
The Massive, But Reversible, Defeats of Iran and Turkey
With our attention focused on other things—Israel’s elections, the legal fraternity’s aggressive lawfare against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
Build, Bibi, Build
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s release on Wednesday of its blacklist of companies with financial ties and business relations with Israeli Jewish
Expanding Settlement Construction Now Will Pay Dividends Later
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s release last Wednesday of its blacklist of companies with financial ties and business relations with Israeli Jewish
Israeli Sovereignty and the Fate of the Trump Plan
On Wednesday morning, NeverTrump propagandist Bill Kristol told his MSNBC audience that Democratic chances of victory over US President Donald Trump will rise
Trump’s Heroic Truth
In Israel’s early years, every time the U.S. ambassador traveled to Jerusalem to meet with government leaders, he would have his chauffeur stop his car at the
The Oslo Blood Libel is Over
From 1994 through 1996, as a captain in the IDF, I served as a member of Israel’s negotiating team with the PLO. Those years were the heyday of the so-called
A Sin For Us Not To Support Trump’s Plan
In Israel’s early years, every time the U.S. ambassador traveled to Jerusalem to meet with government leaders, he would have his chauffeur stop his car at the
A Great But Fragile Triumph of Zionism
What the foreign leaders who came to Jerusalem last week to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and commemorate the 75th anniversary of
Trump’s Netanyahu Invite Changes Stakes of the Election
Leaks about the details of President Donald Trump’s peace plan are contradictory. Until the President releases his plan officially, we won’t know for certain