A Hezbollah attack that killed four IDF soldiers underscores the limits of the emerging US-Iran understanding, as Israel continues to face active threats on its northern border.
The time has come for the government to stop managing evacuations and start investing in community resilience and respite models with the same seriousness and budgets it invests in Iron Dome.
Israel has already demonstrated that it can strike Iran; the harder task is building the coalition needed to outlast it.
A war that began with direct Israeli stakes is now being concluded through a framework shaped largely by Washington, Tehran, and Islamabad.
A poll published by Channel 12 last Thursday showed that 71% of Israelis do not trust Trump to look out for them in the Iran deal.
How are we preparing for the next war once Iran restores its missile capability, regains financial solvency, and resumes support for terrorism in the region?
Trump is doing what no other US president would.
Forty-five years of trying to defeat Hezbollah alone have produced failure. The time has come to turn Hezbollah from Israel’s problem into an international one.
The coming weeks will reveal whether this memorandum is the foundation of a meaningful agreement or merely another chapter in Iran’s long history of delay and deception.
As someone who has carried the identity of being Ethiopian, Jewish, Israeli, and American, I have learned that nations are not strengthened by outsiders who define them only by their failures.
Israelis care deeply about their Diaspora brethren. The issue is not one of sentiment. It is structural. The relationship is unreciprocated because it is asymmetrical.
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