The Lebanon ceasefire has reached a crucial stage, with Israeli troops largely withdrawing from Lebanon on February 18 and hostilities with Hezbollah generally tapering off in recent weeks. However, the northern front’s future remains clouded by uncertainty. Israel’s February 17…
Hamas’s sabotage threatens to collapse the fragile Gaza ceasefire deal. The terror group’s refusal to release more hostages “until further notice” threatens the resumption of hostilities in Gaza and other fronts and drew fury from Washington. Warning that “we’re going…
On February 4, President Donald Trump met with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, making Netanyahu the first world leader to meet with Trump since his inauguration. The summit came at a critical juncture for the Middle…
Israel’s multifront war has seemingly reached a critical turning point. The tenuous Gaza ceasefire largely continues to hold roughly two weeks in, but the future of the agreement, and of Gaza itself, remains uncertain. Meanwhile, the equally fragile Lebanon ceasefire…
On January 15, a hostage and ceasefire deal was reached to halt hostilities in the Gaza Strip following months of painstaking negotiations and Israeli military successes against Hamas. The deal reportedly involves the release of hostages from Hamas captivity in…
Israel launched a new wave of air strikes into Gaza in response to Hamas firing three rockets towards the Gaza envelope. On the Northern Front, the IDF is looking to extend the 60-day withdrawal timeline of the ceasefire deal due…
The Iran-backed Houthis have ramped up their aggression against Israel to unprecedented levels, despite recent Israeli and U.S. strikes against the terror group, leading Israel to issue a “final warning” for the Houthis to cease their fire or “meet the…
As Gaza ceasefire talks reportedly gain steam, Israel continues to grapple with the unfolding Syria situation following the al-Assad regime’s collapse, which Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu referred to as a historic moment in Middle East history and a critical blow…
Book Talk: “If You Will It: Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood for the 21st Century” by Amb Elliott Abrams “American Jewish identity is steadily weakening. National surveys show hundreds of thousands of children with one, or even two, Jewish parents not…
The rapid implosion of Bashar al-Assad’s decades-long rule in Syria is the latest shake-up in a quickly changing Middle East. Though Iran’s loss of a prime asset in al-Assad marks a blow to the regime’s regional designs, Iran is simultaneously…