The Dangerous Push to Bypass Gaza’s Demilitarization—While Iran Rearms and Antisemitism Surges
Dear MEPIN Readers, I invite you to watch my in-depth interview on ILTV’s Security Brief with Calev Ben-David and Alec Pollard, where we examine the pressing strategic and diplomatic challenges…
Can Trump ban the Brotherhood while ignoring Turkish and Qatari Islamism?
Excluding two states whose governments openly embrace, fund and promote Muslim Brotherhood ideology may make transactional financial sense, but it weakens America’s long-term national-security posture. Two recent developments in the…
What’s Next for Gaza? Phase Two, Hamas, and International Pressure
Dear MEPIN readers, What comes next for Gaza? Will President Trump push Israel to accept Turkish or Qatari involvement, and can Israel realistically refuse? In my exclusive, one-on-one interview with…
Israel’s internal security threat
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long career has depended on the support of ultra-Orthodox parties, which have extracted disproportionate benefits in exchange for coalition loyalty. Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images Allowing…
Why Lebanon’s ceasefire with Israel is built to fail
PEOPLE GATHER to attend the funeral of top Hezbollah military official Haytham Ali Tabatabai and others killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs last week. Hezbollah remains the…
Gaza’s Future and Trump’s Muslim Brotherhood Designation: Watch My ILTV Interview
Dear MEPIN Readers, Please watch my ILTV interview, where I discuss the future of Gaza, the realities on the ground, the closing of the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, and President Trump’s…
Is Israel’s F-35 Qualitative Military Edge DOA after Saudi announcement? – Breaking Defense
Dear MEPIN Readers, My friend and colleague Seth Frantzman—one of the Middle East’s most astute military analysts—recently asked me, along with Yaakov Amidror (former Israeli Major General and National Security…
Watch Dr. Mandel Break Down the MBS Visit, F-35s, Hamas Disarmament on ILTV
Dear MEPIN Readers, Please listen to my conversation with Robert Silverman, editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Strategic Tribune and a former U.S. diplomat in Saudi Arabia, hosted by Calev Ben David…
Watch my interview on i24News about the significance of a potential U.S. sale of the fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter to Saudi Arabia.
Dear MEPIN Readers, Will this major shift in American policy alter the strategic balance in the Middle East, undermine Israel’s air and military superiority, or impact Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge…
America’s Middle East commitments must come with clear reciprocity
A SYRIAN flag is displayed outside the White House after the meeting of US President Donald Trump and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa last week. November is shaping up as a…