Commentary

Terror group seeks political legitimacy, immunity from targeted killings, integration in PA security forces, and its own armed presence in Gaza to protect its senior officials.

The challenge Trump missed the point on was Iran. He did redraw the nuclear red lines for the ayatollah, but he forgot, deliberately or otherwise, the protesters there and the mass slaughter carried out against them by the regime of atrocities.

Women are casting off the veil, young people are celebrating Halloween, mosques are empty of youth, and surveys show a clear majority supports separating religion from the state. Forty-seven years after the Islamic Revolution, Iran is facing a generation that is turning to its Persian heritage and looking westward.

As the empire of evil in Tehran slaughters its own citizens who are seeking freedom, the eternal call for liberty once again rises: “Let My people go”. In the face of despair and the tightening yoke of enslavement, Moses learns about the deep undercurrent that carves a path beneath hardship to redeem a people.  

President Donald Trump’s positive relationship with Jews has its roots in his childhood and stretches across decades in business. Those ties ultimately drew him deep into the pro-Israel camp.

One year into his second term, the president has detained Maduro, bombed Iran and secured a Gaza deal. Behind the impulsive exterior lies a calculated strategy of spheres of influence and surgical military force.

The arrival of a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf gives Washington significant flexibility in the use of force. While the military option remains on the table, President Donald Trump is also keeping the diplomatic track open – a development that carries troubling implications for Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the declaration on the composition of the Gaza excutive board, which is subordinate to the peace board, was not coordinated. The question is: what exactly was not coordinated with Israel?

Iran’s regime can point to two significant achievements in recent days. Yet without a profound change in policy, the stability it has regained is only temporary, and the challenge to the regime is likely to return. Senior figures in Iran understand what is required to stabilize the regime, but Ali Khamenei’s ideological rigidity could ultimately bring it to ruin.

The brutal suppression of the protests led to their decline in Iran, but without any change in the country’s underlying conditions, it is only a matter of time before they return. Israel’s clear interest is to stay out of events inside Iran, but if Tehran continues producing missiles at a high pace, Israel may have no choice but to initiate another campaign.