Analysis

A political leader must not only think before he speaks but also consider whether what is on his mind is worth sharing at all.

The United States has weighed dropping the Revolutionary Guards' terrorist designation in return for some kind of action or commitment from Iran to rein it in but the White House is well aware of "the political sensitivity and price associated" with the controversial move.

Israeli forces are not wary of entering the largest terrorist hornets' nest in the West Bank, even in broad daylight, and the latest raid in Jenin may be the prelude to a wider military operation.

Images emerging from Thursday's terror attack in Tel Aviv are eerily similar to another one that hit the city in 2016.

The Israeli Air Force's phenomenal successes in recent years are impressive, but can also confuse us into missing some of the fundamental problems that could compromise Israel's military superiority if not rectified.

With only seven months before the US midterms, and with a third of the Senate and all of the House of Representatives up for election, the American president's shortcomings are more glaring than ever.

The Knesset can be dissolved while on recess, but the Likud will have a hard time finding a candidate the Joint Arab List can accept. Meanwhile, we can expect the government to grind to a halt.

The lesson to be learned from the Europeans is that energy security comes from “diversity and diversity alone. You can’t be too dependent on just a single country, even if it’s your friend at that time,” says assistant professor Elai Rettig at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan.

"If President Putin were to use nuclear weapons, or any other country uses nuclear weapons first, not in response to a nuclear attack, not in response to an existential threat to their own country ... that leader should assume that they are putting the world in the high risk of a nuclear war, and nuclear exchange," US official says.

The shared interests between Israel and the Gulf states when it comes to Iran are clear. But there is little love lost between Rabat and Tehran, either.