Over much of 2023, Hamas and Hezbollah have been escalating rhetoric threatening military action against Israel. Now, on October 7, 2023, the day after the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the most devastating surprise attack on Israel, the Yom…
For months, the Biden administration has been pursuing an ambitious diplomatic project to design a new Middle East for a new era. But the old Middle East, it turns out, still has something to say about it. The stunning Hamas…
Despite the numerous direct and indirect security advantages of a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, there are also several potential risks. The Israeli Defence Forces launched a study this week to analyze the security implications of a normalization…
Disconnect Saudi peace from the Palestinian Authority The eager anticipation of peace with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been deflated by demands that Israel also support the Palestinian Authority. After decades of Palestinian intransigence, the sudden fixation on…
This week, new investigative reporting from Semafor and Iran International revealed the extent to which Western officials from the United States and Europe with ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran bolstered the regime’s image and promoted the 2015 nuclear…
Israel should seek an existential defense treaty with the United States of America as part of broader agreements between them and Saudi Arabia, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) proposed on Wednesday morning. A defense treaty between the US…
For nearly three years, the operative word in the Biden administration’s approach to Iran has been “de-escalation.” In public statements and private briefings, top advisers to President Joe Biden used the term both descriptively—to characterize the administration’s posture toward the…
The recent decision to unfreeze $6 billion in overseas assets to facilitate a prisoner swap with the Islamic regime in Iran has amplified concerns over how to effectively engage with a state that sponsors more terrorism than any other. Michael…
A central element of the new film Oppenheimer is time. The time needed to design and construct the ultimate weapon is marked through the steady accumulation of marbles in a fishbowl and a wine glass, which represent the growing stockpiles of uranium…
