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Dear MEPIN Readers, As Iran fades from the headlines, Gaza and the administration’s new Board of Peace have moved to center stage. Phase Two is now underway, raising critical questions…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Trump, Iran, and the ‘snapback’ countdown US President Donald Trump says Iran is signaling a willingness to return to nuclear talks. In response, he is sending special envoy Steve Witcoff,…
Dear MEPIN Readers, Please watch my interview with my colleague Brian Schrauger. It discusses a range of hot-button issues, including Iran negotiations, a preemptive Israeli strike, Gaza, the US-Israel relationship,…
Dear MEPIN readers, Over the last week, I have had meetings in the Knesset and the Israeli Foreign Ministry, with the IDF Southern and Central command and briefings from military…
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