Analysis
Friday, March 7th 2025 / Thursday, March 6th 2025
Michael Rubin Middle East Journal, Mar. 3, 2025 “That Turkey seeks nuclear power is no secret. Turkey will begin operating its Russia-built Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant this year.” Why does Turkey remain in NATO? Ideologically, Turkey stands alone. It is an Islamist state and dictatorship in an association of democracies. Geopolitically, Turkey has more in […]
Itay Ilnay Israel Hayom, Feb. 24, 2025 “Erdogan looks at Syria as flesh of Turkey’s flesh, and not as a satellite state.” Recent events in our region, especially in Syria, remind us of an important fact: Turkey is bigger than Turkey,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech at the Turkish Academy of […]
Yossi Yehoshua Ynet News, Mar. 1, 2025 “Israel views these developments as a direct threat and is working to thwart them, preferring Russian dominance in Syria over Turkish influence.” As tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky escalated to unprecedented levels on Friday, Israel is quietly reassessing its own strategic […]
Reuel Marc Gerecht WSJ, Mar. 5, 2025 “It’s hard to imagine the Turkish air force wanting to duel with better-trained and -equipped Israeli pilots.” Defense Department nominee Elbridge Colby has contended that the U.S. can do less in the Middle East because Israel can do more if properly armed. Can we imagine an Israeli-Sunni Arab alliance—the Abraham […]
Thursday, March 6th 2025 / Wednesday, March 5th 2025
Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Mar. 5, 2025 “No Israeli government would allow a situation where technocrats manage Gaza’s day-to-day affairs while Hamas terrorists with RPGs and green headbands lurk behind them, dictating the real terms of power.” The much-hyped emergency Arab summit on Gaza ended in Cairo on Tuesday with a 23-point communique. If you don’t want […]
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Benoit Faucon and Summer Said WSJ, Mar. 5, 2025 “Crucially, the proposal includes few details about ridding Gaza of Hamas’s armed militants, who held sway for a decade and a half before the war.” The White House has rejected an Arab plan for rebuilding the Gaza Strip, an early indication of the strength of President […]
Vivian Yee NY Times, Mar. 5, 2025 “Another fundamental impasse centers on the issue of Palestinian statehood. The Arab countries’ calls for establishing a Palestinian state are almost certain to run headlong into Israeli objections.” When President Trump said last month that he wanted to move all of Gaza’s roughly two million residents out of the […]
Dennis Ross and Assaf Orion National Interest, Feb. 28, 2025 “Arab states would not have to take on Hamas directly but would be asked to contribute to security, rehabilitation, and investment in the areas that are free of Hamas.” President Trump transformed the general thinking about Gaza and the day after with his call for […]
Wednesday, March 5th 2025
Pamela B. Paresky Psychology Today, Mar. 3, 2025 “Across Israel, people have been trapped in a version of the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, holding in mind both the possibility that hostages are alive and that they are dead.” The first sign that Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas was alive in Gaza came when Hamas released a video taken […]
Wednesday, March 5th 2025 / Wednesday, March 5th 2025
Eve Young Jerusalem Post, Feb. 20, 2025 “You always think [about], what will happen and: Where is she ? Maybe she is in the tunnels, maybe she is in some room, maybe they made her into a prostitute, maybe she is being raped, maybe she is being abused.” As more and more hostages are released […]
Jerusalem Post staff Jerusalem Post, Jan. 3, 2025 “As long as your mind believes that you are still in the state of trauma, that you are still being threatened, and you live each and every day, it’s very, very debilitating.” Mental health professionals in Israel faced the difficult task of helping hostages freed or released […]
TOI staff Times of Israel, Feb. 22, 2025 “It’s hard to process that they’re going to see him after 10 years,” he says. “It’s really a miracle… somehow the stars have aligned and he’s coming home.” The families of Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed welcomed their loved ones home Saturday after both men spent a […]
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