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Weapons and other equipment that the Israeli army says belonged to the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, seized by the army during its ground operation in south Lebanon, are displayed for the media on December 23, 2024, in a northern Israeli military base. (Jack Guez/AFP)
December 25, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF’s prewar complacency replaced by wariness on every front, proactivism where possible
Security chiefs mistrust Syria’s new rulers and don’t think Hezbollah is finished; assess Iran will seek the bomb but wait to see how Trump will act; favor a hostage deal, for moral and practical reasons
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, November 13, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 3, 2024, 4:46 pm
Why you should be worried for Israeli democracy
The coalition is moving to centralize ever more authority in Netanyahu’s hands – at the expense of gatekeepers including the legal system, police, Shin Bet and free press
By David Horovitz
US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, January 28, 2020, to announce the Trump administration's plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
November 20, 2024, 4:34 pm
Does Trump really see ‘eye to eye’ with Netanyahu on Iran, Gaza and the settlements?
While these two leaderships are emphatically allied, they may not be thoroughly aligned
By David Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas invasion and massacre on October 7, 2023, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 13, 2024, 5:07 pm
The ultra-divisive Netanyahu and the consequences for an Israel fighting for survival
Again and again the questions are asked, mainly by people abroad who love Israel: Don’t Israelis realize how extraordinary a leader he is? And why are so many so mistrustful and critical of him?
By David Horovitz
Then-US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images/AFP)
November 6, 2024, 5:00 pm
Two very different comebacks
The American public has spoken, and Donald Trump is back is office. The Israeli public hasn’t, and Netanyahu is now more powerful than ever
By David Horovitz
Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 26, 2024, 7:42 pm
Israel’s strike on Iran was ‘historic,’ but it’s not ‘the end’ of anything
The calibrated attacks aimed to expose the vulnerability of Iran’s air-defense systems, while building legitimacy, crucially with the US, for the inevitable rounds to come
By David Horovitz
Israelis take cover as sirens warn of an incoming missile fired from Lebanon, in Holon, October 14, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 16, 2024, 4:09 pm
After a year of war, how to get to the ‘day after’
Essential domestic and international components of a strategic approach
By David Horovitz
Iran's Supreme leader Ali Khamenei holds a rifle as he delivers a sermon denouncing Israel and justifying Hamas's October 7 slaughter in Israel, in Tehran on October 4, 2024. (X screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
October 8, 2024, 6:03 pm
The long road back from October 7, 2023, runs through Tehran
The Iranian regime, coordinating assiduously for Israel’s annihilation, has been all but untouched this past year. Israel needs to do more than ‘send a message’ to the ayatollahs
By David Horovitz
Pieces of an exploded pager in a picture circulating on social media, September 17, 2024 (via telegram)
September 18, 2024, 4:30 pm
Will the pager operation deter Hezbollah and Iran, and is Israel prepared for war if not?
The spectacular gambit had apparently been intended to serve as the opening salvo of a major ground offensive. All sides are now weighing their options, including full-scale conflict
By David Horovitz
Rabbi Elhanan Danino (left) speaks to Channel 12 news in a September 9, 2024, interview, as the screen also shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paying a condolence call to the Danino family, whose son Ori was murdered by his Hamas captors in Gaza. (Channel 12 screenshot; Avi Rabina, Kikar Hashabat; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 11, 2024, 4:48 pm
A bereaved father’s plea, a PM beyond salvation, and a bid to rescue Israel
Netanyahu and his current coalition are apparently undeflected by Hamas’s murder of six hostages and the likely prospect of more such horrors. Can saner voices enter the fray?
By David Horovitz
Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi seen with family members and doctors at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba on August 27, 2024. (Courtesy Soroka Medical Center)
August 28, 2024, 4:13 pm
Rescue, shmescue, as the loathsome Jews would say
A Muslim liberated from heroic Hamas by the hideous Zionists? That can’t be true. And if it is, I don’t want to hear it
By David Horovitz
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken departs for Egypt, in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 20, 2024. (Kevin Mohatt//Pool Photo via AP)
August 21, 2024, 5:12 pm
A bridge too far? Blinken’s desperate bid for a hostage-ceasefire deal
After Netanyahu accepted the US ‘final bridging proposal,’ the secretary said Hamas must now do the same. He made it sound so clear-cut, but the picture is getting muddier
By David Horovitz
FILE: Cars burn in Haifa following a rocket attack by Hezbollah terrorists, August 13, 2006. (Roni Schutzer / AFP)
August 14, 2024, 4:17 pm
2 dead terror chiefs, a US desperate to avert war, and a terrifying lack of strategy
Israel complacently allowed Iran to build a stranglehold around it; 313 days after October 7, where’s our domestically and internationally formulated plan to break that grip?
By David Horovitz
Mohammad Abu Salmiya (left), director of Gaza City's Shifa Hospital, speaks after his release by Israel, July 1, 2024 (Video screenshot); National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (right) at a court hearing in Jerusalem on July 2, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 3, 2024, 5:14 pm
Dangerous incompetents at the heart of government are subverting Israel’s war on Hamas
The release of a Gaza hospital chief back into the terrorists’ embrace is, of course, anybody’s fault but that of the minister in charge of the prisons * Is Corbyn finished? * How close is Iran to the bomb?
By David Horovitz
Troops of the IDF's Givati Brigade operate in the Yabna camp of southern Gaza's Rafah, June 18, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
June 19, 2024, 4:36 pm
As war winds down, diplomacy is paramount, but Netanyahu has other priorities
With Hamas being routed as an organized army yet still a potent guerrilla force, it’s time for intensive work on alternative rule for Gaza. Instead, the PM picks fights with the US
By David Horovitz
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