How Hamas’s ceasefire gamble backfired
Hamas’s refusal to negotiate the return of the remaining women still in captivity and an early morning missile attack on…
Hamas has made a mockery of the ceasefire deal
Early this morning, Hamas fired the first shot that signalled the end of its ceasefire deal with Israel, roughly an…
Can Israel’s ceasefire in Gaza hold?
Originally meant to expire on Monday, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been extended by at least two days.…
Why Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire deal
Following days of speculation, the Israeli cabinet last night approved a deal with Hamas for the release of 50 Israeli…
What’s the truth about Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital?
Last week’s military operation in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital was mired in controversy. According to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the…
How will Israel deal with the threat of Hezbollah?
From the very beginning, the war between Israel and Hamas has not been confined to just one front. The Iran-backed,…
Al-Shifa won’t be the last hospital Israel raids in Gaza
Late on Tuesday night, about a week after the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) encircled Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, Israeli forces entered…
After Hamas, who will control Gaza?
Who will rule Gaza once the war is over? Israel, so far, hasn’t provided an answer. The country’s prime minister…
‘Humanitarian pauses’ will help Israel defeat Hamas in Gaza
As the IDF continues to close in on Hamas in the heart of Gaza, the US announced that Israel will…
Israel is in a race against time to defeat Hamas
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) declared last night that Gaza has been encircled and divided into two separate parts: north…
What Palestinian ‘solidarity’ marchers in the West don’t understand about Hamas
The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October have been revealed in their terrible savagery. There are accounts of dead…
Netanyahu is looking weak
If the Israeli public had expected Benjamin Netanyahu to take responsibility for failing to foresee Hamas’s attack on 7 October,…
Netanyahu has good reasons to delay the ground invasion of Gaza
Israel has called in more than 300,000 reservists in the 17 days since Hamas’s monstrous attack on 7 October. Many…
The Gaza hospital strike changes everything
The explosion that killed hundreds in the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza has created a critical moment that may change the…
Netanyahu’s greatest failure
Over the weekend, the IDF confirmed that it killed the Hamas terrorist who commanded the attack on Israel a week…
Israel is a country of lions led by donkeys
Israelis were turning against the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu even before Hamas’s invasion. Over the last six months, tens…
An invasion of Gaza is hugely risky for Israel
In a sign that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) is planning to ramp up the war in Gaza, Israel has…
What happened to ‘Never again’?
For Jews everywhere, there was an eery familiarity about the terrible violence unleashed on Israel during Saturday’s attack by Hamas.…
Israelis are furious at Benjamin Netanyahu
Israelis are livid. Their fury is directed not only at Hamas for massacring over 700 people, wounding thousands and abducting…
Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel was meant to bring war
In the early hours of the morning of this morning, Israelis had a flashback to the surprise attack of the…
Israel is running out of time to stop an Intifada
How does Israel contain Palestinian terrorism without provoking the third Intifada? Recent weeks have seen the largest escalation in violence between Israel…
Why does Israel want to patch things up with Russia?
Is Israel cosying up to Russia? When Eli Cohen, Israel’s foreign minister, spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov last week, it was the first such call between…
The rise of Taliban Twitter
The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was swift, but this victory wasn’t won overnight. For years, the Taliban has been waging…
Western deterrence now looks hollow
The efforts of a 20 year war took only a few weeks to overturn: the Taliban has completed its takeover…
Why Iran is stepping up its maritime piracy
On Tuesday there was an attempted hijacking of a tanker in the Gulf of Oman. According to the UK Maritime…
