Israel makes high-stakes moral, strategic gamble on Somaliland - opinion
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland breaks a taboo, rewards statehood, and secures strategic gains around the Red Sea crossroads.
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland breaks a taboo, rewards statehood, and secures strategic gains around the Red Sea crossroads.
Netanyahu needs to ensure that the hostage deal is finished in full, enforce the terms already signed, and lock in US-Israel alignment on Iran. Anything else would be merely a delay.
The Jewish community, already dismayed by the less-than-friendly stance to Israel of the current Labor government, is seeing a dim and grim Australia that it had not previously known.
Israel, which must be aware of the real situation, is exploiting the potential unlikely “threats” from the Saudis to demand handsome compensation from Uncle Sam.
Mar-a-Lago is not a courtroom. It is not a campaign stop. And it is not a venue for personal politics. It is a place where every second should be devoted to countering a very real threat.
The deterioration of the Knesset is evidence of the deterioration of Israel’s liberal democratic system as a whole. Hopefully, after the next Knesset elections, this process will be reversed.
The brilliance of the Islamist funding machine lies in its ability to exploit the open borders and open banking systems of the free world.
Although the likelihood that this legislation will lead to an actual US withdrawal from NATO is extremely low, its implications should not be underestimated.
Somaliland offers Israel proximity, access, and cooperation in a theater that has become central to its national security calculus.
Decisions about accountability and the next phase of regional diplomacy rest with Israeli voters, not investigative panels.
For decades, Hamas has understood something essential about modern conflict: wars are no longer decided solely by military strength but by global perception.