Day Three of the War
The handshake on the White House lawn, between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat, as part of the Oslo accords, overseen by US president Bill Clinton, September…
MEPIN Coverage of the War
On the second day of the war, I visited Ashkelon, targeted by Hamas missiles. My photos below include a line of tanks on the road to Sderot and an eerily…
Sderot: Day One of the War With Hamas
Dear MEPIN Readers, I wanted to share with you some of the tragic scenes from Sderot today. Many of you have written to me, and I encourage you to continue…
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Times of Israel. Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Oct. 7, 2023…
As the West Bank burns, Palestinians are just a heartbeat away from civil war
Photo: Saudi Press Agency via AP Published on July 9, 2023 in The Hill. To call the situation in Israel today “volatile” would be quite the understatement. Hamas is praising…
Israel, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and American interests
Published on June 23, 2022 by JNS. Photo: Weapons seized by IDF troops during overnight raids on West Bank towns and villages, February 22, 2016. (Source: IDF Spokesman’s Unit/The Times…
Talk at Yale University Mideast Seminar
This week, Dr. Eric Mandel spoke to the Yale University Post-Doctoral Student Association about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism in America, the BDS movement, Hamas, Israel’s Northern Iranian Border, and America’s…
Americans misunderstand Palestinian Arabs
Photo Source: Times of Israel Published in the December 13, 2021 issue of The Jerusalem Report. This fall, six Palestinian terrorists escaped from an Israeli prison. While the attention was…
Why should the US care if Hamas moves against Israel from Lebanon?
With Iranian help, Hamas, which controls Gaza, is creating a presence in Hezbollah’s backyard in Lebanon. Should it be of any concern to American security interests that Iran supports both…
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…