My Word: Beyond the 'Four Questions' - opinion
The Iranians do not know what they will hit, and they don’t care. For all their professed love of Jerusalem, rockets and shrapnel have hit the Holy City, including close to sites sacred to Muslims.
Opinion
Middle Israel: What comes after NATO? The fall of the Western alliance's era - opinion
Iran war is huge success for Israel - but it is not a victory, yet - opinion
Spain is failing the West and weakening Europe's diplomatic hand - editorial
Editor's Notes: Why Americans turned to Al Jazeera instead of CNN or Fox during Iran war - comment
Qatar now funds the most-watched English-language news channel covering the Middle East. And it got there because the West stopped showing up.
As Iran war dominates, Gaza’s future hangs in uncertainty - opinion
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.
Let’s build King David’s Zion, not some Super-Sparta - opinion
Israel mustn’t become Super-Sparta, featuring muscle-bound warriors with coarsened souls, and paralyzed consciences.
Am I a Zionist? Why Zionism must remain broader than politics - opinion
Zionism has never been a single, monolithic idea. From the beginning, it has encompassed multiple strands.
'President Trump, do not betray the Iranian people!' - comment
A ceasefire may halt the bombing, but it leaves the Islamic Republic free to turn its full evil back on its own citizens.
Why Mimouna matters - opinion
Mimouna is a uniquely Moroccan Jewish celebration that spread more widely across Sephardi communities in the 20th century.
Jerusalem’s Palm Sunday and the asymmetry of moral judgment - opinion
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?
Why I declined Megyn Kelly’s invitation - opinion
The sad reality is that the fastest way to capture attention is outrage. The louder the claim, the faster it spreads.
Khamenei dead, proxy networks destroyed: Has Israel won the war? - editorial
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.
Israelis wanted the regime to fall. They may have gotten something better - comment
Iran lost its proxies, its missiles, its nuclear infrastructure, and discovered a single instrument with more leverage than all of them: the ability to shut down a fifth of global oil supply.
