Analysis

It often seems as if the Jewish people have stopped acting as a collective, and that huge groups are showing more loyalty to themselves than to Israel as a whole.

Israeli observers say that despite some damage to its short-term capabilities, Tehran is expected to keep up activities in Iraq and Syria, and that alongside a new clash with the United States, a parallel Israeli-Iranian shadow war will continue.

While Israel has kept a low profile since the US killed top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani last Friday, it will be difficult to remain on the sidelines if Iran follows through on its pledge to step away from the nuclear accord.

Both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations passed on the prospect of taking out the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, widely considered a terrorist mastermind. Even Trump's advisers acknowledged the move could pull the US and Tehran into direct military conflict, but Trump decided it was time.

The Left’s insistence on focusing on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictments only proves that it has little to offer voters on its own merits.

In the fight for the natural gas reservoirs in the eastern Mediterranean, the Turkish tyrant finds himself pitted against a strategic coalition of old and new enemies: Greece and Cyprus, Egypt and Israel.

Tehran clearly intends to exploit the "embassy incident" to rally public support in Iraq for expelling American forces from the country, presenting the US president with an incendiary dilemma in an election year.

"We shouldn't be surprised if we are also attacked within the framework of Iran's fight against the US," Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser tells Israel Hayom.

The two main obstacles to moving ahead with such relations seem to be public opinion and the Palestinian conflict.

I have come to the realization that Trump is one of the most important presidents in US history because of his moral clarity, and because he dared to defy political correctness.