'When it comes to Hezbollah, IDF must always be a step ahead' "I wouldn't advise [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah to test us again because our response will be disproportionate to what he estimates will happen," warns Brig. Gen. Shlomi Binder, commander of the IDF's Galilee Division.
Israel Katz, whom some of the left-wing media have called "the worst finance minister of all time," talks to Israel Hayom about what the government has been doing to handle the economic fallout of the COVID crisis, and says he supports the vision of former Prime Minister Menachem Begin: a free economy combined with social sensitivity.
"You can see nations coming to understand that the Palestinians have rejected reasonable offers to negotiate time and time again. The leadership has simply failed its own people," US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells JNS exclusively.
If there aren't enough vaccines for everyone, how do we decide who gets them? And what do we do about people who don't want to be vaccinated?
The Palestinian leadership faces a critical test: A durable peace with Israel with broad Arab backing is now possible, but only if the PA and the PLO cut their links with the Iranian regime, Islamist Turkey and their radical terror proxies and allied groups.
Israel remembers the part US President-elect Joe Biden played in the infamous UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which declared Israeli settlements "illegal," but also VP-elect Kamala Harris' work in the Senate against that resolution. Meanwhile, associates of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are saying, "Biden is not Obama."
Many see Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamic Liberation Party) has existed for nearly 70 years and operates in 50 countries. A number of European and Arab countries have outlawed it, but Israel prefers to allow it to continue operating openly.
The daily cartoon in Arab media is much more than just another section in a newspaper. At times, illustrators are voices for the leaders, and sometimes they are a voice for the simple people, who pay a price for their courage with their health and even their lives. Noam Benat, an expert on the Middle East and Islam, says that a good cartoon is more powerful than any opinion piece.
No one ever thought any election campaign could be more chaotic than the one seen in 2016 – then came 2020 with the global pandemic, a renewed outbreak of racial tensions, and record-breaking political polarization in the US. Compared to all of this, the Trump-Clinton campaign seems like child's play.
“We’ve done more for the cause of peace within this region than any administration in the history of the United States. And, I think those opposing us just are not seeing the situation clearly,” US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman says.
