How historical choices affect Israel’s current multi-front war
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo,…
Dr. Eric Mandel i24 News Interview August 19, 2024
Dear MEPIN readers In these interview clips from my visit to i24 News, I discussed: In the morning, I visited Israel’s frontline tertiary care hospital closest to Gaza with the…
Dr. Eric Mandel on i24News August 15, 2024; additional content from Instagram
Dear MEPIN readers, I write to you from Tel Aviv, where the beaches and cafés are full as Israelis incomprehensibly balance the threat of an Iranian attack as they go…
What does ‘ending the war’ in Gaza mean to the next American president?
A view of the destruction by the Israeli military of Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on July 29, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian…
A second-term plan for the Middle East
A woman waves Iranian flags as newly-elected president Masoud Pezeshkian visits the shrine of the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on July 6, 2024. Credit: Atta Kenare…
A nuclear Iran?
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meet at the Pentagon in Washington on June 25. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Why now more than ever, deterrence requires…
Dr. Mandel interview on i24 News June 23, 2024
Dear MEPIN Readers, Please watch my interview (four segments) in Israel with i24TV’s Laura Cellier and military and strategic affairs analyst Yaakov Lappin of Alma Research And Education Center, Miryam…
What we keep getting wrong in the Middle East
On Israel’s northern border with Hezbollah expert. I am often confronted with a dual reality, conveying what I see and learn in the Middle East and what I teach to…
The forgotten citizens of the North: A day on Israel’s Lebanese border
Eric Mandel is briefed on the Lebanese border by an IDF expert on Hezbollah missiles.(photo credit: Courtesy Eric Mandel) The world has forgotten about the displaced Israelis of the North,…
i24 News Interview on death of Iranian President
Dear MEPIN readers, Please watch these four short segments from my interview with Laura Cellier on i24 News in Israel on the death of Iranian President Raisi and its potential…