Who is winning the Gaza War of Attrition?
Published in the October 11, 2021 issue of the Jerusalem Report. Image source: Amir Cohen, Reuters During a recent presentation, I was asked how Israel could get rid of Hamas…
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Is the Palestinian Authority secular or Islamist?
Published in The Jerusalem Post. Everyone knows Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood and is a religiously-motivated Islamist organization. But what about the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas?…
The dangerous impotence of UNIFIL’s mission in Lebanon
Published in the Times of Israel. Lebanon is in economic freefall, and the sectarian tensions between Shiite, Sunni, Christian, and Druze have paralyzed the government. Lebanon’s true power, Hezbollah is…
i24TV News: One Year of the Abraham Accords
The first anniversary of the Abraham Accords is a time for celebration and concern. The celebration is because the unthinkable happened. Arab states developed warm diplomatic relations with Israel before…
Why America should care about Israel’s ‘War Between the Wars’
Most Americans are unaware of the phrase “War Between the Wars.” It describes Israel’s low-grade war with Iran, Hezbollah and Iranian proxies in Iraq and Syria to stop Iran from…
Palestinian Authority Textbook Anti-Semitism and J Street
Dear MEPIN Readers, First, a belated happy and healthy New Year to my Jewish readers. In past years, far too many congregants worshipping in the more pluralistic branches of Judaism…
The Taliban Takeover
Published in The Jerusalem Report on September 13, 2021. Score one for Sunni Jihadism. Twenty years after 9/11 and two years after America’s victory over ISIS, another Islamist caliphate has…