TEL AVIV—The death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar creates an opportunity for Israel to declare victory and wind down the war in the Gaza Strip. For now, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is keeping his options open. “The war isn’t…
JINSA’s Julian and Jenny Josephson Senior Vice President for Israeli Affairs IDF MG (ret.) Yaacov Ayish appeared on PBS News Hour to discuss the implications of Israel killing Hamas military leader and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar in southern Gaza.…
“Don’t.” That has been President Biden’s repeated message to Iran and Hezbollah in the year since Hamas attack Israel on October 7. Well, Iran just did. Again. That makes Tehran’s October 1 attack on Israel with about 180 ballistic missiles…
Israel is preparing its response to Iran’s massive ballistic missile attack against it on October 1, which could potentially involve striking Iran’s military, oil, or nuclear facilities, while the United States has demanded that any Israeli response be “proportional.” Despite…
Vice President Harris is struggling to confront a rapidly worsening crisis in the Middle East as she seeks to balance unwavering support for Israel with appeals to progressive and Arab-American communities. In a tight race for the White House, Harris…
The U.S. has mutual defense pacts with NATO, the Philippines, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Japan — along with the 1947 Rio Treaty that vows an attack on any country in the Americas is an attack on all of…
Everything that has transpired since Hamas’s October 7 attack, including the subsequent multi-front war that Israel has faced against Iran and its proxies, and the ups and downs experienced by the U.S.-Israel relationship, only confirms that the more daylight that…
For a year now, freeing the hostages taken by Hamas has been a top goal for Israel, but 101 still remain unaccounted for. Hope of a deal to get them home in the foreseeable future is waning quickly. Of the…
Writing on the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks in southern Israel, 85 retired U.S. generals and admirals stated in a letter, which the Jewish Institute for National Security of America released, that “there should be no daylight…
JINSA’s President and CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 attack: “On this solemn day, we remember and mourn the tragedy of October 7 a year ago, when Iran-backed Hamas led…