Analysis

The very issues that Damascus is causing, particularly in the drug trade, are driving neighboring countries to try to draw it closer to them - allowing Syria it to act tough and set conditions.

The newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate has a history of vocal support for Israel, but some questions remain about his stance on antisemitism.

The West Bank is currently defined as a secondary arena in Israel's multi-arena campaign. Successfully addressing its challenges will help maintain this definition and prevent the area from deteriorating into a situation that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas would like to see.

Time to put Israeli economy and society on an emergency footing for a decade of warfare ahead. Raid the high schools, university campuses, yeshivas, and senior citizen homes for manpower, pressing young and old of all hues and stripes into industrial and emergency service.

Global implications mount as questions swirl around the presumptive Democratic nominee's fitness for office. In a world rife with aggressive forces, the unflattering image of an American president – the leader of the free world – appearing weak and incoherent encourages evil-doers.

A complete victory in the Gaza Strip could shake Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah's confidence and demonstrate the potential consequences of conflict with Israel.

Israel has been given a rare opportunity to change the situation fundamentally in the north. Nasrallah has discovered that he has been compromised far beyond what he expected.

First, stop the fighting and declare a third of Gaza's land as an Israeli combat zone, from which Israel will not withdraw and to which residents will not be allowed to return until an agreement is reached – an agreement under which Sinwar and his 25,000 fighters will remain alive, but not in Gaza. They and terrorists released from Israeli prisons will be exiled from the Gaza Strip in the manner of the removal of PLO forces from Beirut in 1982.

The upheaval experienced by the Jews in the US since October 7 has been felt not only in the shock at the betrayal by the liberal Left and the move away from the Democratic Party – it is also permeating deeply into family and social relationships, their feeling of identity and the greater understanding that America is no longer the place they had gotten used to.