Israel’s goal should be not to be seen as the “good guys.” It should be seen as too expensive and painful to attack.

Whatever path is chosen, Netanyahu urges national unity to achieve the war’s three primary goals.

The media have aided Hamas, Iran, and their apologists in promoting nonsensical and often comically outlandish assertions would otherwise be mocked and ignored.

Israel’s president demands that the world hold Palestinian terror groups accountable for starving Israeli hostages.

In Israel, a war is raging not only in the Gaza Strip but also a profound, existential debate about the future of the country, its character, responsibility, pragmatism, and the relationship between strategy, morality, and faith.

The Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre on southern Israel was “one of the worst I’ve ever seen,” the US president told reporters.

“The political echelon also lacks the resolve to pursue Hamas’s defeat—making it easier to pass blame onto the IDF.”

The media’s reversal of perpetrators and victims has brought Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah closer to state recognition.

On the failure of negotiations, the new role of the US, and the tension between military strategy and political pressure.