The main players – the United States, Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Hezbollah, Yemen's Houthi rebels and Shiite militias in Iraq – are all capable of igniting or exacerbating a conflagration.
Over the centuries, rabbis have addressed cases related to potentially deformed fetuses, pregnancy as the result of rape or adultery. According to the Jewish texts, there is more than one view.
Iran, it appears, is trying to create a crisis bit by bit in reaction to its worsening economy and its unsuccessful effort to overcome U.S. sanctions.
When Hassan Rouhani succeeded Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2013, he was seen as an establishment figure. Two years later, he signed the nuclear deal, and now his authority is waning.
The Iranians, who normally use proxies to do their bidding, warned that if they can't export oil from the Gulf, no one can. This message to Washington and Riyadh wasn't hard to decipher.
Health Ministry committee determines that certain doctors in Israel who discourage vaccinations are partly responsible for the measles outbreak that has infected over 4,000 citizens.
Iran's top priority is to preserve the rule of the ayatollahs, so if the U.S. is prepared to back threats with military action, it will agree to a better nuclear deal from President Trump.
From the historical recognition of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, inaugurating the new embassy in the capital a year ago, withdrawing from the nuclear deal with Iran and many other measures, U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration are firmly in Israel's corner with no sign of slowing down.
We need to understand that the shockwaves from a clash between the U.S. and Iran, if it indeed occurs, will reach us. If attacked, Tehran will unleash it proxies, chief among them Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, against Israel.
Iran has failed to bust the American embargo on its oil exports, while Israel and the moderate Sunni states are cooperating to check Iranian influence in the Middle East.
