Commentary

Given the Biden administration's latest moves, Israel needs to conceive and implement a strategy to bypass the US and achieve its goal of preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

In the Middle East, regimes have the nasty habit of tapping into holy causes for legitimacy, yet those holy causes become new religions that no one can control.

"Panic buying" of oxygen cylinders has made things worse, but the government and medical staff are stepping up to the plate to make things turn around.

It is well known that in times of war, truth is the first casualty. But can one make the same argument in reverse – that the truth is also a casualty of peace?

Senator Elizabeth Warren this week became the first American political leader to openly call for the overthrow of the leader of sister democracy.

Chances that the Israeli government would speak out in support of Russian Opposition leader Alexei Navalny are slim, but where are our academics, scientists, and writers? 

Egypt wants to help, but it has lost some of its leverage on the Gaza-based terrorist organization. Turkey, in the meanwhile, is influential on Hamas and in Gaza, and like Israel, fears a nuclearized Iran.

Israel's transformation into the center of the Jewish world isn't just a question of demographics. Israel is the present of the Jewish people and its future, as well.

Jewish Democrats are competing for the post, but if progressives get their way, the pick may not uphold a definition of Jew-hatred that applies to the left as well as the right.

Political chaos and social tensions aside, anyone who is willing to examine the success of the project called the State of Israel from a broad historical perspective, must admit that is it a resounding success.