With the inauguration of President Donald Trump, 2025 marks a pivotal moment for change, both in America and the Middle East. It’s past time to dismantle the system funneling donations from well-meaning Western charity-givers to terrorism, violating U.S. and Israeli law. At the…
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…
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…
When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel arrived in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, he seemed to be entering a lion’s den. Speaker after speaker at the annual gathering of world leaders had portrayed Israel as…
Iran’s new president, Massoud Pezeshkian, traveled to the U.S. last week to present a moderate, rational face of the regime to the world. He claimed in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Iran did not want…
The IDF has been hammering Hezbollah since the Lebanese terror group began firing over the border the day after Hamas’s October 7 invasion of southern Israel. Hezbollah itself has named over 500 of its fighters killed in the year-long conflict.…
The former top security head of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) warned on Thursday that U.S. bases in the Middle East could become overwhelmed by Iranian missile fire. Retired Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, now a Hertog senior fellow with the…
The Israel Defense Forces continue to make significant gains against Hamas in southern Gaza, even as the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen recently fired a ballistic missile that entered Israeli airspace. Simultaneously, as Hezbollah-Israeli tensions continue to roil, the United States…