Iran’s nuclear weapons program has crept closer and closer toward breakout. The U.S. Director of National Intelligence reported in July 2024 that Iran has “undertaken activities that better position [Iran] to produce a nuclear device, if it chooses to do…
Even as tensions flare anew between Israel and Iran’s proxies and amid anticipation of a major Iranian attack on Israel, Tehran’s desire to attack former President Donald Trump has become clearer. We now know it hacked his campaign and plotted his assassination.…
Gaza. The word immediately evokes images of wartime carnage. For us, however, it represents something else: an example of the danger inherent in wars in which civilian casualties are an enemy’s principal ammunition for winning the strategic information battle; enemies…
Recently, CNN published an in-depth article on the war in Gaza, claiming that while the IDF dealt a severe blow to Hamas, the organization is reorganizing on the ground. According to the report, Hamas is recruiting new members, reviving damaged units, and regaining…
Although colleges are closed for the summer, the anti-Israel demonstrators continue to provide fodder to terrorist groups and leaders, including Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who praised the protesters as a “branch of the Resistance Front” who are “on the…
We were disappointed by the analysis in the article “The Palestinian Authority Is Collapsing” (July 17, 2024), by Shira Efron and Michael Koplow. Although the authors are right to raise the crucial issue of the dysfunction and inefficacy of the Palestinian…
The smell of dust clung to the air when I departed from the border crossing at Kerem Shalom, at the intersection of Israel, Egypt, and Gaza, this past week on July 25, 2024. I traveled through an ancient city’s suburbs…
The Biden administration still speaks of “not allowing” Iran nuclear weapons. Yet just last Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken remarked that Iran is “probably one or two weeks away” from “having breakout capacity to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon.” His…
President Biden has a choice: no daylight between the United States and Israel, or an Israel-Hezbollah war no one wants now. For months his administration has chosen daylight — and has risked war. It needs to reverse course. After Hamas’…
Having failed so far to convince Hezbollah to take “yes” for an answer and negotiate an end to its unprovoked war on Israel, the Biden administration increasingly says “no” to Israel’s threats to resolve the conflict less diplomatically. American officials…