Insights Into The News

Are Israeli raids on Syrian targets legal?

Prof. Louis René Beres, Facing an increasingly dangerous Hezbollah, Jerusalem correctly understands that even a failed state has legal obligations not to assist in terrorist assaults against Israel. Syria, a country in the midst of chaos, has launched multiple aggressions against neighboring Israel. In recent years, most of these assaults have assumed the form of … Read more

US warning to Israel signals new backpedaling by Trump

Associated Press YNET Trump’s administration seems to be going back and forth on their promises and statements toward Israel; Defense Minister Lieberman concurs, saying, ‘We received a direct message from the United States… that imposing Israeli sovereignity on the West Bank would mean crisis with the new administration.’ The Trump administration has explicitly warned Israel … Read more

Haley’s Comet

Editorial of The New York Sun | February 16, 2017 A star is born is our reaction to the first press briefing by President Trump’s new ambassador at the United Nations. The ex-governor of South Carolina was ridiculed by the Left when the president first sent her nomination up to the Hill, owing to her … Read more

The two-state delusion

Dr. Joel Fishman, It has been done before.During the war in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese also launched the “Two-State” formula in order to hide their true strategic goal. For some time, the mantra known as the so-called “Two-State Solution,” has been presented in the media as a desirable goal, one that Israel and the Palestinian … Read more