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Iran’s regime is facing collapse as its core ideological lie is finally exposed - opinion

Iran’s regime has lost its ideological anchor, its popular base, and possibly its military, this time, the collapse could well be real.

Iranians protest on a main street in Tehran, December 30, 2025
US President Donald Trump meets Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa in the White House, Washington, DC, November 10, 2025

From pariah to partner: What the Trump–Sharaa meeting means for Israel - analysis

People stand next to a destroyed tank turret, following deadly clashes between Druze fighters, Sunni Bedouin tribes, and government forces, in Syria's predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria July 25, 2025.

Sweida’s crisis and the quiet path to a Syria-Israel security deal - opinion

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a news conference in Jerusalem, last Wednesday. The Israeli government’s commitment to ‘total victory’ has led Netanyahu and his right-wing partners to misread the room entirely, the writer argues

Trump's new Middle East leaves Israel out - and it's a wake up call - opinion


Halevi: 'We will not stop until we return residents to the North'

"On a peaceful border, defense is on one side; on a wartime border, defense must be on both sides of the border with freedom of action," Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar said.

 Situational assessment between the IDF and Shin Bet, October 11, 2024

Top air force official: No one warns enemy to evacuate before attacking

IDF rejects criticism of attacks in Lebanon as illegal.

 IDF carries out strikes on southern Lebanon, 23 Sept 2024

Unyielding reality: why an Islamic Middle East rejects Israel - opinion

In the Islamic Middle East, doctrinal antisemites have remained faithful to their most primal hatreds.

 IRAN’S LATE SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, last month. It doesn’t matter at all to Iran and Hamas if Israel agrees to political and territorial concessions, says the writer.

UNRWA could shut down by end of February if funding does not resume

Israeli authorities have long called for the agency to be dismantled, arguing that its mission is obsolete and fosters anti-Israeli sentiment, something UNRWA has vigorously denied.

 Una mujer palestina participa en una protesta contra posibles reducciones de los servicios y la ayuda ofrecidos por la Agencia de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados Palestinos en Oriente Próximo (UNRWA), frente a la sede de la UNRWA en la ciudad de Gaza el 16 de agosto de 2015.

Iranian media vows retaliation to Israeli killing of Saleh al-Arouri

Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri was born in 1966 and detained in the 1990s by Israel. He eventually left prison and moved to Turkey before migrating to Qatar and Lebanon.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meets with Hamas deputy Saleh Arouri and the Hamas delegation in Tehran July 22, 2019

Israel's Eilat Port sees 85% drop in activity amid Red Sea Houthi attacks

Eilat, which sits adjacent to Jordan's only coastal access point at Aqaba, offers Israel a gateway to the East without the need to navigate the Suez Canal.

White-cheeked terns flying across the Gulf of Eilat.

Could Iran try to use crisis for nuke sneakout? - analysis

Only Iran and its nuclear weapons program fit in the category of existential threat to Israel.

 Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a graduation ceremony for armed forces officers at the Imam Ali academy in Tehran, Iran October 10, 2023

Middle Eastern countries rush to condemn Israel amid Gaza hospital blast

While IDF intel confirmed that Islamic Jihad were responsible for the Al Ahli hospital blast, that did not end the calls to blame Israel for the explosion.

 Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 17, 2023

How Israel was duped as Hamas planned devastating assault

"This is our 9/11," said a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces. "They got us."

 Israeli security gather near a rifle at the site of a battle following a mass infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot

Yemen's national airline to suspend flights from Sanaa to Jordan

Yemenia said in a statement that it had been unable to withdraw its funds in Sanaa banks for several months and called on the Houthi authorities to lift restrictions "illegally" imposed on its assets

 A Yemenia Airbus A320 plane is pictured through the window of an Etihad Airways plane after it landed on the runway at Cairo International Airport, Egypt