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March 25, 2024
Serbia and Russia want to refight Kosovo, this time with disinformation
Excerpt Yesterday, marked the 25th anniversary of NATO’s intervention against Serbia in 1999 to halt the human rights abuses perpetrated against the ethnic Albanian population in Kosovo. Today,...
March 22, 2024
Congress Is Right to Call for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok
The Chinese Communist Party in Beijing is nervous — and it ought to be. The U.S. Congress has targeted a significant tool the CCP uses to spread disinformation among Americans, and the rulers in Beijing...
March 22, 2024
Battle of Avdiivka: A Preliminary Analysis
This article offers a preliminary analysis of the Battle of Avdiivka, particularly its final weeks. While more information will no doubt come to light as time passes, some initial conclusions stand out....
March 21, 2024
Looking into Kfar Aza, five months after the October 7 massacre
On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Hamas terrorists breached the fence at Kfar Aza that runs around the community. It is one of the closest Israeli communities to the Gaza Strip, and the...
March 21, 2024
Egypt hosts Blinken and key Arab foreign ministers
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Thursday for an important meeting. The Egyptian foreign ministry spotlighted the “expanded bilateral consultations”...
March 21, 2024
Jordan commemorates battle of Karameh against Israeli forces, echoing today’s war
On March 21, 1968, the Battle of Karameh took place in Jordan, pitting Israeli forces against a combined force of Palestinian fighters and Jordanian soldiers. Because the name for the site of the battle...
March 21, 2024
Al Jazeera should report, not inflame, the Gaza war
The Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera has unjustifiably become part of the Gaza war story. In January, two Al Jazeera reporters, Hamzah Dahdouh and Mustafa Thurayya, were killed in the war. On Monday,...
March 21, 2024
Iran-backed Iraqi terrorists claim to target Israeli power plant
The Iranian pro-government Tasnim news media claimed that the “Islamic Resistance of Iraq announced that in support of the people of Gaza…it targeted the power plant of the Zionist regime in ‘Tel...
March 21, 2024
Despite Deadly Stabbing, Hopeful Signs for Jewish-Arab Relations in Israel
Israeli soldier Uri Moyal’s visit to a café in southern Israel last Thursday ended up being his last. While Moyal waited in line, Fadi Abu Altayef, from the nearby Bedouin city of Rahat, fatally stabbed the...
March 21, 2024
The Growing List of Al Jazeera Terrorists
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) arrested Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul on Monday during a firefight with terrorists at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital. The Qatari television channel immediately...
March 21, 2024
How Turkey’s opposition media empowers Erdoğan
Complicity in perpetuating authoritarian rule has many faces. Undemocratic governance is propped up by politicians and big businesses as well as a complacent media ecosystem and...
March 20, 2024
Reported US-Iran Talks Explain Saudi Sitting Out Red Sea Operations
Wafic Safa, a top Hezbollah official, is on an unprecedented visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a country that classifies the Iran-backed Lebanese militia as a terrorist organization. The...
March 20, 2024
Khamenei’s Strategy to Dominate the Middle East Will Outlive Him
Earlier this month, Iran conducted elections for its parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a body of elderly clerics nominally responsible for choosing the next supreme leader. The massive disqualification...
March 20, 2024
Attack TikTok
Starting in the 1920s, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union pioneered the art of dezinformatsiya. A hundred years later, the Communist Party of China has developed disinformation into...
March 19, 2024
Israel bulks northern defense with new mountain brigade amid ongoing Hezbollah threat
The Israel Defense Forces announced the creation of a new unit with the objective of protecting Israel’s mountainous terrain on its northern border with Lebanon. The new unit will be called the ‘mountain...
March 18, 2024
Putin Wants War in the Balkans
As all eyes are on Ukraine, another conflict is brewing in Europe. Three decades after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, recent clashes between Serbia and Kosovo have reignited lingering ethnic...
March 18, 2024
Pakistani military, Afghan Taliban exchange fire along the border
The Afghan Taliban launched attacks across the border into Pakistan on Monday in response to Pakistani military airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan. The Pakistani military, which helped the Afghan Taliban...
March 18, 2024
It’s not just a theory. TikTok’s ties to Chinese government are dangerous.
The House of Representatives last week delivered a clear ultimatum to Chinese technology giant ByteDance: Sell TikTok to American owners or see it removed from U.S. app stores. This bold,...
March 18, 2024
Israel warns Hezbollah as attacks continue in north
Israel has been at war with Hamas for 164 days as of March 18, and the Israel Defense Forces continue to operate on multiple fronts. Israel’s Chief of Staff Herzi HaLevi said on March 17 that Israel...
March 18, 2024
U.S. official confirms Israeli forces killed senior Hamas military leader Marwan Issa
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan confirmed on Monday an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat area last week killed senior Hamas military commander Marwan Issa. The targeted strike against...
March 17, 2024
Tehran claims to be ‘self-sufficient’ in building drone engines
Iranian Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Gharaei Ashtiani said recently that Iran is “designing and manufacturing airplane and drone engines; the country is self-sufficient in this field,” according...
March 17, 2024
Iran’s president wants new focus on artificial intelligence
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi held a meeting focusing on “big steps” in the field of artificial intelligence, Iran’s pro-government Tasnim News reported on Sunday. Iran has already invested in...
March 17, 2024
Iran’s far reaching influence: Are the Houthis getting leverage via attacks?
The Iranian-backed Houthis appear to be increasing their influence through their continued attacks on ships in the Red Sea. This is because they have not been deterred, and their attacks have become increasingly...
March 17, 2024
How tensions between Hamas and Fatah could change Gaza
Tensions between Hamas and Fatah, the two largest Palestinian groups, appear to be growing and becoming more openly visible. While the two groups have been rivals historically, the October 7 attack...
March 16, 2024
Losing control of Gaza: Hamas cracks down on civilians with more intensity
Hamas appears to sense that its rule over Gaza is in jeopardy and is returning to its roots as a thuggish, mafia-like organization, cracking down on Gazans who speak out against it and massacring people...
March 16, 2024
Why wasn’t October 7 prevented? Time to look to the West
While Israel will need to investigate its own failures on and leading up to October 7, there is also enough blame to go around Western nations. Hamas is hosted by Qatar, a major non-NATO ally...
March 15, 2024
Radical transparency is democracy’s secret weapon to counter China
Authoritarian regimes, like China, fundamentally depend upon opacity for their engagement with the global economy. Opacity provides the perfect cover for bribes, illicit finance, and corruption, while...
March 15, 2024
The Campus Antisemite’s Secret Weapon
Protesters were breaking glass and shouting “Intifada! Intifada!” at Berkeley just a few weeks ago. Following the October 7 terror attack on Israel, antisemites at many American colleges...
March 15, 2024
First maritime humanitarian aid delivery to Gaza
The first delivery of humanitarian aid by sea to Gaza occurred on March 15. The Israel Defense Forces said that 115 tons of food and water arrived via a barge that was towed to Gaza by a ship called Open...
March 15, 2024
The Big Lies About Israel’s Big Bombs
President Joe Biden says Israel is losing support because of its “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza. He says that Israeli conduct in Gaza has been “over the top.” His secretary of state,...
March 14, 2024
Biden continues Iran’s access to $10 billion just weeks after its proxy killed three American soldiers
Just six weeks after an Iran-backed drone strike killed three American soldiers in Jordan, President Biden has approved a sanctions waiver giving Tehran continued access to more than $10 billion...
March 14, 2024
The West should tear down Putin’s new digital Iron Curtain
This week, the Kremlin continued pushing through some of the most repressive laws in its modern history. On March 11, Putin signed into law a bill that bans media advertisers from working...
March 14, 2024
Russia, China, and Iran deepen ties with naval drill
Iran, Russia, and China sent ships that gathered for a naval drill over the weekend. The drill continued this week and illustrates the growing cooperation between the countries. Russia, Iran, and China...
March 13, 2024
Shabaab retakes territory as the U.S. sanctions one of its money laundering networks
Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, is steadily undoing progress made by Somali security services in its nearly two year old counter-offensive against the group. Over the last few days, the group...
March 13, 2024
US ships begin long, slow trip to build Gaza dock in unique operation
Several small landing craft ships departed the US this week for the long, slow, trip across the Atlantic to eventually reach their destination off the coast of Gaza. According to USNI, “four...
March 13, 2024
IDF Gaza division commander fighting in Gaza tells politicians: Be worthy of us
Brig.-Gen. Dan Goldfus, commander of the IDF’s 98th Division, held a rare press conference on the Gaza border, where he addressed Israeli politicians on Wednesday and said, “We accomplish many achievements...
March 13, 2024
Local Elections Will Soon Decide Turkey’s Future
It has been less than a year since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won Turkey’s presidential election and secured a third term in office, which will last until 2028. Turkey’s constitution...
March 13, 2024
The state of the world
The U.S. Constitution mandates that the president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union.” The information that President Biden conveyed last week failed...
March 12, 2024
IDF targets Hamas leaders in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said on March 11 that it had targeted “senior terrorist leaders” in Gaza with an airstrike that took place overnight between March 10 and 11. Among those targeted...
March 12, 2024
How Washington views October 7, Israel’s war on Hamas and what’s next
The winds off the Potomac reached gusts of 30 knots over the weekend. It was a transition from a relatively warm series of march days to drizzle and then biting wind and cold. Nevertheless, spring is in...
March 12, 2024
When Iran Goes Nuclear
Since the October 7 Hamas assault on Israel, Iran’s allied militias and proxies have launched missiles and drones at international shipping and U.S. troops...
March 11, 2024
The Dangers of a Rearmed Europe
Since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s inception in 1949, American leaders have complained that the alliance doesn’t spend enough on defense. John F. Kennedy in 1963 told...
March 11, 2024
Biden should draw red lines for Hamas — not Israel
President Biden on Saturday suggested he might cut off US military assistance to Israel if it moved forward with a military operation to dismantle Hamas’ last stronghold in the Gazan city of Rafah. An...
March 11, 2024
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula names new emir; U.S. has $6 million bounty on his head
In a newly released video, Ibrahim al-Qosi, a veteran official within al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), announced the sudden death of AQAP’s emir, Khalid al-Batarfi. At the same time,...
March 11, 2024
Removing the Trojan Horse from America’s ports
The Greek legend of the Trojan horse is a tale of deception, a story children everywhere learn as youngsters. Yet America seems to have forgotten what befell Troy, and, consequently, has instead welcomed Trojan...
March 11, 2024
Israel targets Hezbollah drones
On March 11, the Israel Defense Forces targeted Hezbollah in Lebanon after two days of increased Hezbollah attacks on Israel. Airstrikes in the Beqaa Valley targeted sites that “belong to Hezbollah’s...
March 11, 2024
Egyptian activist tells ‘Post’ she condemns Hamas and October 7 massacre
“I am keeping my voice heard and fighting Islamists, and I also support Israel. I believe Israel is leading this war on behalf of all of us in the Middle East region,” says Dalia Ziada, an Egyptian...
March 10, 2024
The two-state solution is a dangerous pipedream
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March 8, 2024
Iran has upped its cyberattacks: It’s time for Biden to strike back
Iran has dramatically stepped up its cyberattacks against the United States since Oct. 7, prompting little to no response from the White House. Like the rockets, drones and anti-ship missiles from Tehran’s...
March 8, 2024
New threats from Iran’s IRGC Quds Force chief
IRGC Quds Force Commander Esmail Qaani threatened Israel on March 7. It is the latest threat by the Iranian regime and follows messaging from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad that threaten...
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