The new plan to oust Netanyahu and its implications for Israel

In a discussion with associates on Tuesday, Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett spoke candidly about his political plans, which, according to media reports, he is closely coordinating with New Hope party leader Gideon Sa’ar. Read more

King Abdullah the Irrelevant

According to media reports in Israel and the United States, on March 11 Israel’s ties with Jordan stood on the brink of the abyss. But then, five to 10 minutes passed and everything went back to normal. Read more

Biden abandons Middle East peace

The Trump administration was on the verge of securing a peace agreement between Israel and Indonesia in its final weeks in office, according to a former senior Trump administration official involved in the efforts. Read more

‘Facebook and Twitter? Boycott them, there are other sites’

Mark Levin, a Jewish American talk radio host and former Reagan administration official, makes no effort to hide what he thinks. Read more

Navigating Israel’s ship of state through the Biden storm

In a media briefing Friday, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki refused to say whether the Biden administration views Israel as an ally. Read more

The ICC’s European puppet masters

Last Saturday, the justices of the International Criminal Court (ICC) took a major swipe at the Jewish state. Read more

Biden’s drive to war in the Middle East

On Monday, Iran tested the Zuljanah, a 25-metre (82-foot), three-stage rocket with a solid fuel engine for its first two stages and a liquid-fuel rocket for its third stage. Read more

Israel goes back to the future

In an interview with The New York Times last month, President-elect Joe Biden restated his intention to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Israel opposes this plan because the 2015 deal ensures Iran will become a nuclear-armed state. Read more

Trump rings in the era of ‘total political correctness’

It was hard to watch the scenes of U.S. President Donald Trump supporters storming the Capitol last Wednesday as the joint session of Congress was convened to debate and ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Read more

Pollard and the great Jewish divide

The rift between Israeli and American Jews is palpable almost everywhere you turn today. The most glaring disparity surrounds how they view President Donald Trump. The vast majority of Israelis adore Trump. The vast majority of American Jews despise him. Read more

The Israeli left is far from dead

Over the past several weeks, Israel’s political commentators have repeatedly declared the demise of the political left. Read more

Biden and Israel’s unsteady right

In an interview with the New York Times on Tuesday, presumptive President-elect Joe Biden reaffirmed his plan to return the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Read more

The approaching storm in US-Israel relations

The day before the U.S. presidential election, the progressive Israel Democracy Institute published the results of a poll of Israeli Jews asked whether they believed President Donald Trump or former Vice President Joe Biden would be better for Israel. Some 70 per cent named Trump, 13 per cent chose Biden and 17 per cent said they didn’t know. Read more

Fighting the new commissars

The time for a reckoning with the social media giants has arrived, and not only in the United States. Read more

A magic carpet ride over the anti-Netanyahu protests

The Israeli left likes to claim its no-holds-barred fight against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters is an ideological struggle that pits the forces of democracy and old-time Zionism against the forces of tyranny and tribalism. Read more

Is the Palestinian veto alive or dead?

Since Israel was established the Palestinian veto doomed all efforts to forge peace between the Arab world and the Jewish state. Read more

How can Israel help Diaspora Jewry?

At Sunday’s government meeting, Israel’s elected leaders demonstrated their commitment to helping Jewish communities in the Diaspora. Read more

Trump and Netanyahu face their rendezvous with destiny

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needn’t take heed of the “friendly advice” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson proffered on Wednesday. Read more

Abbas’s empty, worn-out threats

Last week, Palestinian Authority and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced that the P.A. is renouncing the peace deals it signed with Israel along with its agreements with the United States. Read more

Israeli sovereignty and Gantz’s bad faith

The coalition talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz are being held behind closed doors. A lot of contradictory information is being leaked about the issues on the table and about the form of the deal for a unity government being hammered out. Read more

What happened to the Israeli left?

Knesset member Ofer Shelah of Israel’s Blue and White Party is the architect of his party’s current efforts to form a government with the support of the Joint Arab List. Read more

Build, Bibi, build

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s release on Wednesday of its blacklist of companies with financial ties and business relations with Israeli Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is a reminder of Israel’s vulnerability and the vulnerability of Jews worldwide. Read more

Israeli sovereignty and the future of Trump’s peace plan

On Wednesday morning, NeverTrump propagandist Bill Kristol told his MSNBC audience that Democratic chances of victory over U.S. President Donald Trump will rise if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is defeated in Israel’s March 2 elections. Read more

When will American Jewry wake up?

Was the machete attack at Rabbi Chaim Rottenburg’s home in Monsey, N.Y.  wake-up call enough? Read more

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