Somehow, even on the issue of humanitarian aid, Israel has found itself in an absurd reality: On the one hand, it has succumbed to American pressure, but on the other hand, it is being attacked by those very same US officials on the claim that it is starving 2.2 million people.
Will this put an end to the direct confrontation with Iran, and will we return to fighting "only" against its proxies? The ball is in Iran's court. So long as the 85-year-old supreme leader is in power, a direct confrontation will remain just a matter of time.
The Haggadah is not a frozen document, but rather a generic text that holds an idea that is renewed from time to time. From ancient Egypt, where the Hebrew slaves told the story of the ancestors' exodus from exile, to the modern exodus from Egypt, which is the State of Israel.
Even in the Regional Cooperation Department of the IDF's Strategic Division, they were burning the midnight oil in the late hours on Saturday and early Sunday. The language used in those hours was Arabic, and the content of the conversations was intelligence updates based on developments before, during, and after the attack. More than one country was on the line with the Israeli officers – and not all have formal ties with Israel.
If there are no consequences to Iran's large-scale attack, then there is no need for the Republic ever to take Washington's threats seriously. Iran is at liberty to push the region to full-scale war by activating its proxies across the Middle East.
Israel cannot go back to October 6. It must not allow Iran to surround it with a tightening ring of fire while making intolerable threats of a potentially nuclear nature.
Any potential response to the barrage of missiles launched by the ayatollah regime overnight Saturday will not come at the expense of the Israel-US alliance.
The doomsayers declared the current stage as the end of the military campaign, and along the way echoed the historical irresponsibility of the protesters in the streets • We are in the midst of the campaign • And what does Nicaragua want from us?
Micha Catran has managed to make Israelis fall in love with investing without feeding them nonsense or false hopes – by introducing them to the daily ins and outs of the US stock market from his basement studio in New Jersey. He has already managed to attract 80,000 followers online, and judging by the energy in his event in Israel, he has only just begun.
In difficult moments of our history, we have learned to draw encouragement and hope from the past and from the eternal sources of our people. Here is the Prophet Jeremiah, the Vilna Gaon, Natan Alterman and Berl Katznelson come to our aid from the distance of the generations.