France failed at the one job that it had: to earn the trust of the party it claims to want to help reach peace. And now it can't get the role of brokering peace talks.
A NATO member that underfunds collective defense, obstructs allied operations, downgrades relations with Israel, and restores ties with Tehran is eroding Europe’s credibility.
Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up.
If Hamas, according to Washington, does not understand that it is finished, it will pay the price heavily, along with the rest of the Gazans.
Israel mustn’t become Super-Sparta, featuring muscle-bound warriors with coarsened souls, and paralyzed consciences.
Zionism has never been a single, monolithic idea. From the beginning, it has encompassed multiple strands.
A ceasefire may halt the bombing, but it leaves the Islamic Republic free to turn its full evil back on its own citizens.
Mimouna is a uniquely Moroccan Jewish celebration that spread more widely across Sephardi communities in the 20th century.
Why are Israeli actions so readily framed as moral failures, even when taken under conditions of ongoing threat, while the context that shapes those actions recedes so quickly?
The sad reality is that the fastest way to capture attention is outrage. The louder the claim, the faster it spreads.
Former supreme leader Ali Khamenei is dead. Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure has been set back to a degree Israeli defense planners would have called fantasy in 2024. But the regime survived.
