Why Hezbollah miscalculated – and Israel attacked
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the IDF spokesman’s office issued a laconic statement, according to which Israeli forces…
How will Iran response to Nasrallah’s assassination?
The assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah transcends the immediate confrontation between Israel and its Islamist enemies. Nasrallah was both…
Can Israel avoid provoking all-out war with Hezbollah?
Israel has carried out its largest-scale operation against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon since the summer war of 2006. Wave after…
Pager bombs won’t stop Hezbollah
The killing of 12 people, including several Hezbollah members, and the wounding of thousands more when 5,000 pagers simultaneously exploded…
Israel is turning its sights on Hezbollah
As its Gaza campaign cools, Israel’s attention is returning northwards. Approximately 60,000 Israelis from northern communities are still refugees. A…
Netanyahu faces an unenviable dilemma on Gaza
The murder of six Israeli hostages by Hamas in Gaza earlier this week led to an outpouring of grief and…
Iran and Hezbollah don’t want a war with Israel
Hezbollah’s response to the killing of senior official Fuad Shukr, when it finally came, was a more minor event than…
Netanyahu won’t hand Hamas an easy victory
The latest information seeping out from the negotiations for an end to the war in Gaza suggest that agreement between…
What will Iran do next?
Following the killings of Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, Israel and the Middle East are poised and waiting…
Can Israel hold back from all-out war with Hezbollah?
On 27 July, 12 children from the Druze community of the Golan Heights were slaughtered when an Iranian Falaq 1…
Here’s how Israel can win
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was photographed on his flight to the US earlier this week next to a hat…
Will Hezbollah declare war on Israel?
In Israel currently, people are waiting for a possible escalation in the north. The United States, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Russia…
Benjamin Netanyahu must decide what to do about Hezbollah
Tensions on Israel’s northern border are currently at their highest point since the outbreak of hostilities in October last year.…
Will Netanyahu declare war on Hezbollah?
The war in Gaza is perceived internationally as a limited affair, pitting Israel against the Islamist Hamas organisation within the…
Pressure is piling on Netanyahu over Rafah
On Sunday, 45 Palestinians were killed after an Israeli airstrike on two Hamas commanders in the Rafah area set off…
Bibi’s plan for a post-war Gaza
Sharp differences within Israel’s governing coalition have emerged into the open in recent days. On the face of it, the…
Hamas is playing for time
Israeli, international and Hamas officials are currently awaiting the decision of Yahya Sinwar, the terror group’s military leader on a…
What Israel should do about Hezbollah
On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched its deepest attack into Israel since the current round of hostilities between Jerusalem and the Iran-supported…
Will Israel continue its strikes on Iran?
The reported Israeli strike on an Iranian air installation near the city of Isfahan in central Iran appears to have…
Iran’s attack was just a taste of what could be to come
The Iranian drone and missile attacks of 13 April brought less drama for many in Jerusalem than one might have…
Iran’s four options for revenge against Israel
I recently returned from a trip to the south east Syrian province of Deir al Zur, where I witnessed Kurdish…
Time is running out for Israel to defeat Hamas
Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza is making steady progress. They moved into the strip on 27 October after a sustained…
Political Islam now commands the Middle East
No sane American president takes office hoping for war. Woodrow Wilson, a 56-year-old Princeton academic, said it would be ‘the…
An Israeli ground assault would be devastating for Gaza
On a patch of scrubland outside the Zikim kibbutz earlier this week, I came across a platoon of Merkava 4…
