Book Review: The October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza
This collage posted by Reuters at the end of 2023 featured its best photographs from Israel and Gaza after almost three months of the October 7 war. Seth J. Frantzman’s…
Remembering Israel’s wounded soldiers
THE WRITER (right) visits Soroka Medical Center, accompanied by Dr. Moti Klein, chief of the Intensive Care Unit (center), and Dr. Erez Tsumi, director of the Department of Ophthalmology.(photo credit:…
Stop allowing Palestinians to insult the US
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Credit: Flash90. Please, Mr. Abbas, return the billions of dollars to the American people…
Dr. Eric Mandel on ILTV at YNET August 20, 2024
Dear MEPIN Readers, Today, I was on ILTV at YNET Studios in Rishon LeZion, hosted by Maayan Hoffman. Joining me were Dan Perry, the former chief editor for AP in…
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 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…
Iraqi TV interview with Dr. Mandel on VP Kamala Harris’ Middle East policy and the US elections
Dear MEPIN Readers, On Monday, Kurdistan 24 interviewed me about the American Presidential electoral process, President Harris’s Middle East foreign policy, and how it would differ from President Biden’s. The…
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…