Opinion

For Israel and the United States, a nuclear war in the Middle East could take place even while Iran is still non-nuclear.

For Israel, Iran’s repeated threats of annihilation and efforts to achieve its goal by different means makes this indeed a clean-cut case of necessity.

Recent polls from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research show that even today, a majority of Palestinians in the West Bank, 59%, still believe Hamas’s October 7 massacre was right.

Israel is prepared to endure hardship until the region is safer than it was before October 7. But a public that continues to show resilience deserves more than malleable deadlines.

The Jews were never permanently welcomed anywhere, and now that they have their own homeland, they’re being told they cannot maintain it as a place identified with them.

In contrast to global Muslim leaders who are speaking out against the Iranian regime, there has been a striking silence from some who claim to speak on behalf of the Muslim world, namely, Mamdani.

From Israel’s perspective, there are no more ‘sacrosanct’ borders in its immediate vicinity.

Decades of Western diplomacy misjudged Iran’s ideology, fueling a war that the West was unprepared for.

The strategic consequence of the war is the collapse of core BRI assumptions.

After a tumultuous journey of deconstructing my past, I am now a vocal critic of both hardline religion and the contradictions inherent in trying to create a democratic nation-state.