There is an old military warning that every commander eventually learns: winning battles does not always mean winning wars. Israel’s current campaign in southern Lebanon increasingly risks becoming a textbook…
Israel’s greatest strategic mistakes have rarely come from failing to identify immediate threats. They have come from underestimating emerging ones. Before October 7, Hamas was widely viewed as contained. Before…
In politics, access is power, and in Washington, access is everything. Throughout his career, Benjamin Netanyahu built his political identity on a single, carefully cultivated claim: that no Israeli leader…
The most dangerous shifts in Middle Eastern security do not always begin with war plans or missile launches, they often begin with sentences that quietly rewrite strategic red lines. That…
JD Vance’s remarkable rebuke of Israeli cabinet ministers should alarm more than just Israel’s political class. When a senior American figure feels compelled to publicly remind Israeli leaders that they…
The latest KAN poll showing a decline in support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his governing bloc is often read through a narrow lens of leadership approval. Yet focusing…
The emerging US-Iran framework has reopened a painful question inside Israel, not only about Iran’s intentions, but about the quality of leadership that guided the country through years of escalating…
The reshaping of Syria following the collapse of the central government cannot be considered merely a new episode of turbulence in the Middle East. Rather, it has become an example…
There are two starkly contrasting ways to understand the Iran deal currently being negotiated. On one hand, it can be seen as a disappointment that failed to live up to…
The reputation that Canada maintains as one of the world’s most tolerant and multicultural countries has been established for a very long time. For many years, Canadians have enjoyed being…
For years, Pakistan occupied a relatively limited role in Middle Eastern diplomacy. It was an important Muslim-majority state, a nuclear power, and a key player in South Asian politics, but…
In Israel’s highly charged political environment, controversies often rise and fall quickly, absorbed into the next cycle of security developments, coalition bargaining, or judicial confrontation. Yet some episodes matter less…