Exiled writer Ramin Parham says that Tehran is engaged in brinkmanship with the United States, where its position is influenced primarily by domestic existential threats.

At government meeting on allowing over 3,000 Israelis to enter country each day, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein says, "I hear the calls to 'open the skies' and 'open the gates of entry to Israel.' If we had listened to these voices, we wouldn't have 6,000 dead, but 16,000 dead."

Despite what some Israeli pundits would have us believe about the Abraham Accords, ultimately all of our neighbors in the region recognize the benefits of peace with Israel.

Bestselling author and special-needs advocate Lihi Lapid, the wife of Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, believes "the time has come for renewal and rejuvenation. Israelis are in need of calm and composed leadership, without any dramas, because we are sick of it."

In order to survive the Arab Spring, Syria's president was forced to expose himself to an Iranian "mutation" far more contagious and dangerous than COVID-19. It will take billions of dollars to rehabilitate Syria, and it is only a willingness from the West to provide assistance in return for pushing back the Iranians, alongside sanctions, that can cure Assad of this dangerous disease.