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The Spectator, 2/2 The US has failed to stop Iran and its proxies Nine years ago, with Vice President Joe Biden at his side, US President Barack Obama announced the Iran nuclear deal. Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime would eliminate its stockpile of … Continue reading →

The Australian, 14-15/10 I was at Heathrow Airport, waiting for a plane back to Israel when messages, initially casual and nonchalant, began to appear on my Whatsapp feed.  It was Simchat Torah, the last day of the Jewish High Holy … Continue reading →

25/9/23 The Yom Kippur War of 1973  cast a shadow over my generation in Israel.  It was a distant and partial shadow, nevertheless, with its darkest parts only visible at certain points.  Mine, after all, was not the generation that … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 23/9 A truce brokered earlier this week by the Lebanese General Security Service to end the ongoing fighting in the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp appears to have broken down, with renewed clashes taking place at various locations … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 28/7 The kidnapping of the Russian-Israeli Princeton doctoral student and Middle East analyst Elizabeth Tsurkov in Baghdad is the latest indication of who really runs Iraq.  The Ktaeb Hizballah organization, identified by the government of Israel and by … Continue reading →

(A version of this article appeared in The Australian weekend edition, 22/7) ‘We think we’re doing well and moving forward, and that no other force could move faster than us,’  Oleg, 42, a company sergeant major in the Ukrainian Army’s … Continue reading →

The pro-Assad activists at Electronic Intifada, in an article entitled ‘What we know about Elizabeth Tsurkov’ are trying their feeble best to get a Jewish woman currently held in Iraq murdered. I’m not going to link to their site, so … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 7/5 In a briefing to defense reporters in mid-April, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant noted that under his stewardship, Israeli attacks on Iranian infrastructure had significantly increased.  ‘Since I took office,’ Gallant said, ‘in the first quarter of … Continue reading →

Jerusalem Post, 14/4 Recent events in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Israel and the West Bank suggest that a concerted effort is under way by the Iran-led regional bloc to increase pressure on Israel.   The evidence suggests that the possibility that this … Continue reading →

But how much substance lies behind the rhetoric? Jerusalem Post, 25/3 Ali Ramzi al-Aswad, a senior member of the Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, was shot dead on Sunday, March 19, in the Qudsaya … Continue reading →