Middle East

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits David Ben-Gurion Memorial National Park with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid in Sde Boker, Israel, on March 28, 2022. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Freddie Everett. by Israel Kasnett (JNS) — The […]

Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid welcomes Bahraini Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani to the Negev Summit, March 27, 2022. Credit: Rafi Ben Hakoon/GPO. by David Isaac (JNS) — In a scene that was unimaginable over the […]

Blasts in Syria attributed to Israel on Dec. 30, 2020. Source: Twitter/ELINT News. by Rafael Medoff  It has often been said that if only the State of Israel had existed in the 1940s, its air force could have bombed Auschwitz, […]

Demonstrators in front of the White House protesting the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Credit: John Smith 2021/Shutterstock. by Ariel Ben Solomon (JNS) — The Taliban’s quick takeover of Afghanistan has Middle Eastern countries deeply concerned about their dependence on the […]

by Eran Lerman (Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies) — In the wake of the sweeping Taliban victory in Afghanistan, the region now faces the symbolic impact of these dramatic scenes of U.S. failure unprecedented since Vietnam. To thwart the notion […]

In 2014, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi declared he would make common cause with Hezbollah to fight against Isis and spoke of Israel as an obstacle to peace and development in the Middle East. Seven years later, he has condemned […]

Flag of Hezbollah and Lebanon flying together. Credit: Arthur Sarradin by Yaakov Lappin (JNS) — A new report released on Aug. 12 by the Alma Center, which researches security challenges to Israel from Lebanon and Syria, exposed what it described […]

by Seth Durns (JNS) — “One of the lessons that we learn from studying Jewish history,” the historian Paul Johnson observed, “is that anti-Semitism corrupts the people and societies possessed by it.” Lebanon offers a tragic case in point. Aug. […]

Hezbollah flags flying over southern Lebanon. Credit: John Grummitt/Shutterstock. by Yaakov Lappin (JNS) — The fact that Hezbollah is deeply embedded in some 200 southern Lebanese villages is well known, but what is less known is the role played by […]

by Hussein Aboubakr Mansour (JNS) — Another round of violence has erupted in Gaza, and global reactions have run the gamut from peaceful protest to violence, with anti-Semitism up 250 percent in the United Kingdom. Many figures in Western institutions and the […]

An Iron Dome air-defense battery set near the southern Israeli city of Ashdod fires an intercepting missile on July 14, 2014. Photo by David Buimovitch/Flash90. by Jonathan Feldstein I have been hosting a variety of briefings and doing media interviews […]