Analysis
Thursday, March 13th 2025 / Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Yoni Ben Menachem Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, Mar. 6, 2025 “Israel is redefining its borders in Syria and Lebanon according to its security needs while strengthening ties with its Druze allies in Syria.” On February 24, 2025, protests erupted in southern Syria, with several hundred demonstrators rallying in multiple locations against Prime […]
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Rita El Jammal The New Arab, Mar. 12, 2025 “Abi Rashed points out that the total number of disputed points is 13, starting with Ras al-Naqoura at what the UN terms BP1, which is considered to be of great strategic importance.” Developments have emerged on Wednesday on the Lebanon-Israel front regarding arrangements for a ceasefire agreement and the release of prisoners. Alongside […]
Nabih Bulos LA Times, Mar. 11, 2025 “People talk about victory. What victory? All this destruction and death? What was this for?” The procession of coffins was heard long before it came into view, a chorus of ambulance sirens drowning out the crowd assembled at the main square of this devastated village. “Arise, Aitaroun! This […]
Neville Teller Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2025 “Israel’s confidence in the UN’s peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) is at a low ebb after 47 years of its total inability to control Hezbollah.” The unhappy truth is that despite Hezbollah having received a military thrashing at the hands of the IDF, the organization still possesses considerable political power within Lebanon. On […]
Wednesday, March 12th 2025 / Wednesday, March 12th 2025
Elder of Zyon, Mar. 10, 2025 When you read the relevant US codes, the case to deport Mahmoud Khalil is unassailable. U.S. immigration agents arrested Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student who acted as a leader of the Columbia University group that led pro-Hamas protests. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that Khalil was […]
Wednesday, March 12th 2025 / Tuesday, March 11th 2025
Erez Linn Israel Hayom, Mar. 11, 2025 “Mahmoud Khalil, like every other ICE detainee, should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.” Columbia University professor Shai Davidai, a vocal advocate for Israel and critic of campus pro-Palestinian activism, surprisingly came out with reservations about the attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a reported leader of Columbia’s Boycott, […]
Douglas Belkin, Tarini Parti and Alyssa Lukpet WSJ, Mar. 10, 2025 “Citing national security does not give the Trump administration a blank check to violate Americans’ First Amendment rights.” Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil was the first to be arrested by Homeland Security agents for his participation in pro-Palestininan demonstrations on campus, but President Trump vowed he […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Mar. 10, 2025 “,,, the side in this dispute that seeks to violate free speech and academic freedom were those in the pro-Hamas mobs, egged on by administrations that coddled and enabled them, who were violating the rights of Jewish students and faculty.” At a time when partisanship influences virtually every […]
Tuesday, March 11th 2025 / Tuesday, March 11th 2025
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş European Council on Foreign Relations, Feb. 6, 2025 “The question of moderation and tolerance in Syria is tied to whether the country’s new rulers are still jihadists at heart.” Unnoticed by the outside world, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in October hinted at “good news” soon to come from Syria. Within a few […]
Tuesday, March 11th 2025 / Monday, March 10th 2025
Erez Linn Israel Hayom, Mar. 10, 2025 “I found him to be a very methodical thinker with a strong degree of pragmatism.” Syria’s new president has traded his militant fatigues for polished suits as he attempts to transform his image from extremist commander to pragmatic statesman, The New York Times reported. Ahmad al-Sharaa, previously known by his […]
Shachar Kleiman Israel Hayom, Mar. 10, 2025 “We are calling on you and on everyone. We don’t want him [Al-Julani]. Get rid of him.” Nearly 1,000 Alawites have been murdered in recent days in horrific massacres carried out by Islamist forces in western Syria. While the UN stammers and the world once again stands idly by, the […]
William Christou Guardian, Mar. 10, 2025 “They took a 16-year-old boy, he had a nervous breakdown, telling them not to kill him. They didn’t say anything, they just took him and killed him.” Clashes between Syrian security services and fighters loyal to the ousted Assad regime erupted on Wednesday, kicking off five days of still-ongoing fighting […]
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