Watch my latest interview with Dr. Dan Diker on ILTV
Watch my latest interview with Dr. Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) on ILTV, where we discuss key strategic developments, including: I welcome your thoughts and…
Israel must secure Trump’s support to confront Hamas provocations
View of Gaza photo by Eric Mandel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must persuade President Trump, his advisers, and the US military team monitoring the ceasefire that Hamas’s violations cannot be…
Hot off the Press: Analysis of Trump’s Historic Speech to the Knesset
October 13, 2025 All I can say is wow.Whatever your politics, this was a moment to pause and appreciate the magnitude of what just happened in the U.S.–Israel relationship. Americans…
Watch: My Interview on the Hostage Release and the Road Ahead
October 9.2025 Dear MEPIN readers, Less than 24 hours before today’s interview, I was on another station, just before the cease-fire was announced. So much has changed since then, and…
Watch my interview discussing Gaza negotiations in Cairo, day after plans, and more
October 8, 2025 Dear MEPIN Readers, Watch my latest analysis of the talks in Cairo, where I discuss concerns that Hamas may escalate its demands and enlist the Qataris, Turks,…
Remaking Israel’s Navy
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images Hamas’s surprise assault forced Israel to rethink its maritime defense, offering lessons to the US Navy When Hamas terrorists landed on Israel’s Zikim Beach on…
Hostages, Hamas, and Cairo Talks: Dr. Mandel Analyzes Israel–Qatar–U.S. Negotiations
Dear MEPIN Readers, With President Trump’s closest negotiators—Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner—now in Cairo alongside Ron Dermer and the Israeli team, the stakes for shaping a Gaza ceasefire and potential…
Watch My Interview on the Promise and the Missing Details of the 21-Point Agreement
President Trump’s announcement was striking in both tone and substance. He cast Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza as a genuine peace offering, answered not with reciprocity, but with the Palestinian…
Watch: Dr. Eric Mandel discuss the 21-Point Trump Plan for Gaza and the Middle East
Dear MEPIN readers, President Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu today to discuss his 21-point plan—an aspirational framework aimed at reshaping the Middle East, extending far beyond a ceasefire…
Why America benefits from Israel’s shift to pre-emption
View into Lebanon from Israeli outpost in the Upper Galilee. Photo by Dr. Eric Mandel. Strikes on Iran, Hezbollah and in Syria have reduced the chance of wider war in…