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Seth Frantzman is a columnist for the Jerusalem Post. His front-page essay “Early Reform and Islamic Exoticism” appeared in the June 5 issue of The Jewish Press. He can be contacted at sfrantzman@hotmail.com.
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It's unclear why a country would sign a maritime deal under the shadow of a threat of war if the deal wasn't signed. Israel, nevertheless, went forward and signed.
As elections near, and a fresh maritime deal is being signed with Lebanon, Jerusalem is getting even more involved in Ukraine.
If Syrian Airportswant to carry Iran, make them pay for this baggage.
Israel and Morocco have had some form of informal ties for decades.
It has been years in the making, as Israel and India were already strategic partners, and the Abraham Accords brought in the UAE.
Israel's PM: "We no longer play with the tentacles, with Iran's proxies: we've created a new equation by going for the head."
When Biden last came, Israel was more isolated...Now, Biden enters a region where Israel has new ties and is working today on new joint naval drills with the US and Gulf friends, as well as growing ties with Greece, Cyprus and others in the Mediterranean.
Israel must be ready to confront not only Hamas and Hezbollah, but also Iraq-based, pro-Iranian militias and Iranian drones.
Only dismantling Israel as a Jewish state can end "apartheid" as Amnesty defines it.
Boycott supporters don't really want to isolate just settlements; their goal is the erasure of Israel.
Regavim says that Israel may now be seeing the "whitewashing of thousands of illegal structures on about 11,000 dunams [2,718 acres] of land." It slams the idea that this will create "new communities." It notes the coalition agreement does not stipulate what "will happen to the rest of the illegal Bedouin squatter's camps nine months from now."
Israelis were able to mobilise effectively against Covid because of their ingrained national security ethos.
A small collection of countries, haters and groups.
Too often the Diaspora-Israel discussion begins with setting the bar very high – only for Israel: If Israel doesn't reflect my values then it shouldn't exist
Annexation might put the Israel-Palestinian issue back in the center of regional politics.
The Firefly is operated with a tablet and unpacked from a tube.
Due to Israel's political stasis, there appear to be few proper checks on the government's extreme methods.
Throughout Middle Eastern countries where Jews were once prosperous, numerous Jewish sites are getting a makeover and Jewish history is being remembered.
How can you make a country out of patches of lands connected by bridges and tunnels, one of which is 20 miles long?
Israel has made it clear it won't allow sophisticated precision guidance to end up with Hezbollah.
Paris is disappointed by the lack of US response to Iran's violent provocations.
How could Turkish intelligence not know what was going on within shouting distance of its border?
Tehran's major hurdle is Israel, whose leaders understand the long-term Iranian threat.
Jesus is no more Palestinian than Saladin is Iraqi, or the Prophet Muhammad a Saudi.
While a direct U.S.-Iran conflict has not broken out, there are already conflicts taking place between allies and proxies. This includes Israel's attempts to prevent Iranian entrenchment in Syria.
Iran and its allies know America is serious. But whoever fired a rocket wanted to see just how serious.
Hamas didn’t achieve a military victory. But toppling the defense minister is a kind of victory because it shows that Hamas can shake Jerusalem’s politics at the very top
Across the Middle East, reactions to reports that US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley would be stepping down were as divided as the region.
There is no “surge”. When something is the same as six years ago, it is not a “surge.” It is “historical levels.” More than half the “surge” was caused by one Jewish Israeli
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