How to kill a democracy

Israeli democracy is hanging by a thread. That is the lesson of last Monday’s testimony by prosecution witness and former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber in former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial. Filber revealed that Netanyahu is not alone in the dock. Israel’s democracy is also on trial. Read more

Caroline Glick on the Australian election

During Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, Australia’s sister Labour Party under then-leader Bob Carr was Britain’s “mini-me” in terms of its animosity toward the Jewish state. Read more

No one to talk to in Washington

Last Tuesday, Israel Hayom reported that there is a growing sense among Israeli and U.S. officials that the Biden administration will not reach a nuclear accord with Iran. Read more

The nuclear deal is not unavoidable

On Wednesday morning, five Democrat members of Congress held a news conference to express their misgivings about the nuclear deal with Iran that the Biden administration is obsessively seeking to conclude, seemingly at any price. Read more

Washington’s betrayal has only just begun

The Washington Examiner reported last week that Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers are actively plotting to murder former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. Read more

Biden’s ‘victory’ against Putin

Several commentators have argued in recent days that the crisis between Russia and Ukraine has been a godsend for President Joe Biden ahead of the midterm elections in November. Read more

The ayatollahs’ men in Washington

Former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently co-authored a book in Farsi about the 2015 nuclear deal that tells us a great deal about how we should be assessing the nuclear negotiations taking place in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, Russia, China, France, United Kingdom and Germany). Read more

A Jewish majority is insufficient to protect Israel

After their claim to be the peace camp exploded into a million pieces in a hundred suicide bombings, Israel’s left reinvented itself as the Zionist camp. Read more

The escalating international war against Israel

At the U.N. General Assembly last month, a large majority of member nations voted to lavishly fund a permanent inquisition against the Jewish state. Read more

The empty suit at the head of the table

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held a primetime press conference about his COVID-19 policies on Monday evening. It went poorly for him…writes Caroline Glick. Read more

Netanyahu and Trump’s well-defended goal

How are we supposed to understand journalist Barak Ravid’s dramatic exposés regarding former U.S. President Donald Trump’s relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Read more

The generals’ belated awakening

Something is changing in the assessment of the Iranian nuclear threat among Israel’s military brass. Read more

Bennett’s diplomatic tsunami

Naftali Bennett’s government’s diplomatic policies came into full view in recent weeks and were put to the test at the United Nations climate conference in Glasgow last week. The results are unmistakable. Read more

Israel’s post-American strategic challenge

A report last week about the discussions Israel and the United States are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. Read more

Lapid and Bennett’s old-new diplomacy

Last week’s diplomatic calendar highlighted the difference between this year’s foreign policies and last year’s. Read more

Israel’s ‘blame my predecessor’ Iran strategy revealed

Two weeks ago, Foreign Policy magazine published an interview with Defence Minister Benny Gantz. Read more

Why Oslo still rules

Faisal Husseini, who held the Palestinian Authority’s Jerusalem portfolio, gave an interview shortly before his death in the summer of 2001 in which exposed the fraud at the heart of the Oslo process. Read more

Assessing the twin disasters of September 2001

We have a tendency to forget that two historical events occurred in early September 2001. No one needs to be reminded of the jihadist attacks on Sept. 11 that killed nearly 3,000 people in a single morning. Read more

Bennett’s goals, Israel’s goals

Three weeks ago, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defence Minister Benny Gantz convened the ambassadors from all the U.N. Security Council member nations in Jerusalem. Read more

Joe Biden’s catastrophic judgment

The Taliban’s seizure of control over Afghanistan will loom large over Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s visit with U.S. President Joe Biden this Thursday, and its implications are dire. Read more

The Lapid-Bennett government’s foreign policy ‘doctrine’

From Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s stunning Knesset assault against his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu, through Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s trip to Brussels and his speech before the Global Forum on Anti-Semitism, this week the Lapid-Bennett government’s foreign policy doctrine was fully exposed. Read more

Bennett and the Religious Zionist elite

The biggest media story in Israel last week was the fall of the town of Evyatar in Samaria. Read more

What sort of government are Lapid and Bennett forming?

The storm of controversy now engulfing Israel revolves around one question. What sort of government do Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett intend to swear in? Read more

The price of friendship with Biden’s Washington

In a week of unprecedented political upheaval, it’s hard to pay attention to anything other than what is before our face. Read more

The strategic consequences of Bennett’s megalomania

There is little point at this stage of the game in mentioning the depths of moral depravity and treachery into which Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked have descended. Read more

How will we know who won the war?

Maybe one day, we will discover that the impetus for Hamas’s latest onslaught against Israel wasn’t the pending Israeli Supreme Court decision about whether or not to respect the property rights of Jewish landlords in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood.

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Biden’s skin-deep support for Israel

Until Wednesday, President Joe Biden had maintained a fairly supportive posture towards Israel in the face of the Hamas terror regime in Gaza’s launch of its newest round of war against the Jewish state. Read more

Facing the real cause of the long Arab war

The time has come for Israel to stop giving a pass to Arab Jew-hatred. Read more

The US has plunged its relations with Israel into crisis

In light of the reactions from Washington to the Hamas and Fatah-inspired Arab violence in Jerusalem, it is hard to see how Israel will be able to maintain a constructive dialogue about its relations with the Palestinians with the Biden administration or more broadly, with the Democrat Party. Read more

Israel has made it, now it needs to grow up

At independence, Israel was little more than a spark of light—a tiny spark—in the Jewish world. Read more

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