"Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake," says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Iranian Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh accepts "full responsibility" for the incident, says that when he learned about the downing of the plane, which killed all 176 passengers, he "wished I were dead."

Who knows, maybe the next step will be to put an end to the Iranian nuclear-weapons project?

It often seems as if the Jewish people have stopped acting as a collective, and that huge groups are showing more loyalty to themselves than to Israel as a whole.

The more successful Trump's reality-based policies towards Iran and Israel are, the harder it will be for the foreign policy establishment to restore their delusion-based policies when he leaves power.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's younger brother Iddo, a doctor and playwright, speaks to Israel Hayom about how the wrongs being done to his brother have wronged Israeli society as a whole.