Could UAE Opening to Syria Mark Major Shift for Region?

Amid the 2015 Iran deal and fight against ISIS, US efforts to remove Assad ended.
Hamas’s Growing Role in Iran’s Scheme to Encircle Israel

Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, released a statement calling for “the unity of Muslims” as a precondition for solving “the Palestinian problem in the best manner.”
Red Carpet, Red Lines and Red Flags: Israel’s Race to the Climate Change Agenda

The government’s rush to become a climate champion is as much about global finance as about the environment, and Israeli technologies may become the primary beneficiaries.
Iran’s Atrocious Human Rights Record Must Be Addressed Before New Nuclear Talks

There were days and nights at Evin prison, with bright lights and interrogations and little or no sleep.
Israel’s Shadow War Dented Iran’s Takeover of Syria, But Only Temporarily

Explosive drones likely launched by Iranian-backed militias last Wednesday night targeted the At-Tanf U.S. airbase in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi and Jordanian borders.
Israel’s Post-American Strategic Challenge

A report this week about the discussions Israel and the U.S. are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake.
Lapid and Bennett’s Old-New Diplomacy

Last year Israel had a reality-based foreign policy, but now Jerusalem seems bent on reinstating the Palestinian veto and glorifying the Jewish state’s enemies.
Israeli academic establishes new Persian nation for day after Iran’s ‘imminent demise’

“Look, one month before the Soviet Union broke up, no one anticipated that. Even the ‘great expert’ on the Soviet Union, Condoleeza Rice who advised President Bush, did not foresee this.”
Lebanon Perpetual Crisis Is Iran’s Ploy

One can draw a clear line between the increase of Hezbollah’s power in Lebanon and the consequent increase in economic and other crises affecting the country.
Jonathan Spyer: Iran and Hezbollah “Swallowing Up Lebanon”

Spyer began with a “whistle-stop tour” of the “very, very dire, social and economic situation in Lebanon.”