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May 20, 2024
Deaths of Iranian president, FM will have no significant change on Israel
The president of Iran, mass murderer Ebrahim Raisi, and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, an Iranian prominent leader in his attacks on Israel, were killed in a helicopter crash on the Azerbaijan-Iran...
May 20, 2024
Hamas hostage video reveals depths of group’s evil
On Sunday, the IDF released two videos that soldiers recovered of hostages making statements, on orders from Hamas. IDF chief spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari said, “during our ground operations in...
May 20, 2024
How Ebrahim Raisi transformed Iran’s role in the region
When news broke that Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi had vanished during a helicopter ride in a remote mountainous region of Iran near the border with Azerbaijan, I was surprised. Raisi had...
May 20, 2024
Don’t Forget the Air Highways
While U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is focusing his remaining months in office on attaining compensation fees for U.S. air travelers, a much bigger threat to air travel and transport...
May 20, 2024
Opium protests catalyze anti-Taliban sentiments
Amidst a tumultuous landscape marked by escalating terrorism, deepening ethnic divisions, widespread protests, and the ravages of natural disasters, Afghanistan finds itself at a critical juncture two...
May 19, 2024
Gustavo Petro’s Anti-Israel Fantasy Has a High Price for Colombia
Revolutionary rhetoric feels good—just ask encampment activists across U.S. college campuses whose righteous rage turned their college quads into mini-Woodstocks. But governing a country requires more...
May 19, 2024
Israel’s media and political discussions are watched closely in region
Every Israeli headline, along with important political statements, are picked up by regional media, including pro-Iranian ones like Al-Mayadeen, as well as media in the UAE like Al-Ain. The interest...
May 19, 2024
Iran’s Raisi joins long list of political leaders involved in mysterious crashes
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter crash in foggy weather over mountainous terrain was a shock for the region, as presidents are supposed to have access to the very best helicopters in...
May 19, 2024
Escalation with Hezbollah places Israel in a bind
Over the past month, Hezbollah has consistently increased its attacks against Israel, coinciding with the IDF’s operation in Rafah to eliminate the last battalions of Hamas. If Hamas is cut off from...
May 19, 2024
How Iran Is Trying to Punish Jordan for Helping Israel
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May 18, 2024
Houthis escalate Red Sea ship attacks in tandem with other Iranian proxies
The Houthis appear to be increasing their attacks. This comes as Hezbollah has also increased threats to Israel in the last week. The Iranian-backed Houthis attacked a ship in the Red Sea with...
May 18, 2024
Congress must stop Biden from fueling a Saudi nuclear bomb
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is heading to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend in hopes of delivering an elusive Biden foreign policy triumph — a U.S.-Saudi-Israel “mega...
May 17, 2024
American conservatives love Hungary’s Orbán — but ignore his wooing of China
Excerpt Hungary’s flowering relationship with China, on full display during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s triumphant two-day visit to Budapest, is a blazing three-alarm fire. Will America...
May 17, 2024
UNRWA meets the Spanish Inquisition
The collaboration between UNRWA, the U.N. agency solely dedicated to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, and the Hamas rulers of Gaza continues unabated. Two episodes over the last week underscore...
May 16, 2024
Don’t buy Rashida Tlaib & Co.’s lie: ‘From the river to the sea’ has always meant erasing Israel
In English, protesters call for Palestine to be free. But when their chants shift to Arabic, they often call for the whole of Palestine to be Arab — an explicit call to dismantle the Jewish state...
May 16, 2024
Notes from the Gaza border – 7 months on
At Café Greg in Sderot, the server recommends pasta with mushroom sauce. It’s a pleasant spring day, just waiting to become summer, and then it will be too hot to sit outside. For now, it’s just warm...
May 16, 2024
Arab leaders meet in Bahrain for summit regarding Gaza and regional development
Arab countries are gathering in Bahrain this week for the Arab League summit. There are 22 members of the Arab League, and this is an important meeting for the group of countries. They will be focused...
May 16, 2024
Cairo’s double game in Gaza
The Israel Defense Force’s move last week into the southern Gaza city of Rafah has exploded in Egypt like a 2,000-pound bomb. Cairo has long been playing a double game, holding...
May 15, 2024
America’s dangerous game with Israeli security
As US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan prepares to visit Israel this weekend, the primary topic he aims to address is the prevention of further warfare in Gaza, with a focus on Rafah and...
May 15, 2024
The Gaza Health Ministry Flimflam
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May 15, 2024
Israel’s Defense Minister Calls for Gaza Plan
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to come up with a decision about the future of Gaza. He said in a statement on May 15 that the prime minister should...
May 15, 2024
Congress must move to stop Beijing from making US rely on Chinese firms
The United States is determined to thwart Beijing’s efforts to secure victory around the world in three key areas: military, intelligence and diplomatic. Yet the greatest threat to US national security...
May 15, 2024
Biden turns on Israel
Kerem Shalom is one of the main crossings through which humanitarian assistance moves from Israel into Gaza. It lies just a few miles southeast of Rafah, where four Hamas battalions are believed to be...
May 15, 2024
Hezbollah seeks to use Syrian refugees to create crisis with Europe
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on May 13 that Lebanon should open its maritime borders so that Syrians who live in Lebanon can board boats heading to Europe. The comments have been greeted...
May 15, 2024
Iran is seeking closer ties to Egypt
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said that Iran has a strategy for regional cooperation with Egypt, according to reports in Iranian media on May 15. He “made the remarks in...
May 15, 2024
Hamas delegation meets Nasrallah as Israel clashes grow
A Hamas delegation, led by senior official Khalil al-Hayya, met with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian state media IRNA reported, adding that they “discuss[ed] the latest developments in...
May 15, 2024
US built floating pier off Gaza could be operational in ‘days’
The US-built pier that is supposed to help facilitate a maritime corridor of aid arriving from Cyprus to Gaza could be operational in days, according to a briefing that was held on the Gaza humanitarian...
May 14, 2024
Some Campus Protesters Despise America as Much as They Do Israel
The epicenter of campus protests has recently shifted from occupation of buildings and quads, to the disruption of commencement ceremonies as students prepare to leave campus. This provides an opportunity...
May 14, 2024
Why the U.N.’s Gaza Casualty Figures Were So Off
The U.N. offered no explanation for the sudden change. On May 6, the body’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released an infographic showing that more than 9,500 women and...
May 14, 2024
Kuwait: Islamists and the end of Arab democracy
Kuwait’s unprecedented suspension of its constitution has marked the end of an era of change that started with the toppling of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in 2003 and that was followed by the ejection of...
May 14, 2024
Russia’s Kharkiv Offensive Stretches Ukrainian Forces
Kyiv replaced the commander of Ukrainian forces defending Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Monday as Russian troops pressed forward in an offensive launched on May 10. Although...
May 13, 2024
As Expanded War Looms, a Subdued Israel Marks Memorial Day
Mournful sirens wailed across Israel on Monday morning as the Jewish state paid tribute to its fallen soldiers and civilians on Israel’s annual Memorial Day. The remembrance is always moving: busy...
May 13, 2024
How China is Winning the Solomon Islands
April 17 was election day in the Solomon Islands, a country of around 750,000 people northeast of Australia that is best known to most Americans as the site of the World War II battles of Guadalcanal,...
May 13, 2024
America needs to lead in drone warfare
When Russian tanks invaded and cruise missiles and drones rained down, Ukrainians responded with grit, a highly motivated fighting force, and their own waves of drones. This nation of 38 million people has stood firm against one of the world’s largest militaries, in part by using drones as an invaluable force multiplier...
May 13, 2024
Israel Opens Another Crossing for Aid to Enter Northern Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces opened what they dubbed the “western Erez” crossing into northern Gaza on May 12, according to a statement. The opening of a new crossing in the north appears to mean that...
May 13, 2024
The Looming Crisis
For four decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has fought its adversaries through proxies, conducting a shadow war against the United States, Israel, and others. No more. Iran sees its enemies weakened,\checked...
May 13, 2024
Why President Erdogan’s DC Visit Was Canceled
After a series of mixed messages, a scheduled meeting between President Joe Biden and his Turkish counterpart, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on May 9 was finally canceled. The White House may have...
May 12, 2024
IDF’s new three-pronged Gaza offensive takes shape
The Israel Defense Forces have rapidly increased the number of troops fighting in Gaza over the week of May 5-12, sending two divisions to clear out Hamas in eastern Rafah and Jabalya. Eastern Rafah is...
May 11, 2024
Biden’s betrayal of Israel only means more civilians will die
A decade ago, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates famously declared that Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four...
May 11, 2024
Xi’s European tour: Some euro, no vision
Xi Jinping arrived in Europe earlier this week lugging some heavy economic baggage. With foreign direct investment into China plunging 82% to just $33 billion (€30.5bn) in 2023 — a...
May 10, 2024
Why the Biden Administration’s Iran Sanctions Waivers Are Futile
After years of fighting in the shadows against Israel, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) crossed the threshold. On April 13, the IRGC undertook an overt and direct attack from its own territory...
May 10, 2024
Iraqi militia threatens Israel with retaliation over strike in Syria
Iraqi militia Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba’ issued a statement on Thursday threatening to retaliate against the Jewish state following a reported Israeli strike earlier in the day against a...
May 10, 2024
What Biden didn’t say about antisemitism
U.S. President Joe Biden’s speech on May 7 at the U.S. Capitol, during which he eloquently revisited Nazi Germany’s journey from racial laws discriminating against Jews to outright genocide, demonstrating...
May 9, 2024
Hezbollah may be emboldened by US arms decision
Hezbollah threats Thursday afternoon caused air-raid sirens to sound in 30 communities in northern Israel.Hezbollah has been increasing its attacks on Israel since May 5. This coincided with the tensions...
May 9, 2024
Israel’s Rafah operation met with US warning of munitions pause
President Biden upped his sharp rhetoric against Israel widening its operation in Rafah on May 8. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into...
May 9, 2024
U.S. Must Stop Putin
After months of delay, U.S. aid is again flowing to Ukraine. Yet the war’s trajectory remains uncertain. Russia is determined to win a protracted conflict, while Washington’s appetite for further aid...
May 9, 2024
The Great Lie Behind Russia’s Victory Day
Every year on May 9, Vladimir Putin delivers an address to celebrate Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II, a war Russians dub the...
May 9, 2024
Quantum Talent Development & Retention: A Strategy for National Security
In this era of unprecedented technological advancement and global interconnectivity, quantum information science and technology (QIST) has surfaced as a pivotal game-changer, offering the potential to...
May 8, 2024
Biden’s cybersecurity plan has a huge funding gap
The Biden administration is boasting about its planned $13 billion investment in cybersecurity for federal civilian agencies, but the White House’s plans neglect essential programs, including foundational research and standards setting...
May 8, 2024
Israel’s Defense Minister visits north amid Hezbollah attacks
Israel’s Minister of Defense visited northern Israel on May 8 as Hezbollah continued to escalate attacks on Israel and Israel responded by striking Hezbollah sites near the border. The Minister of Defense...
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