“Our shared ideals are the deep foundations that give strength to our modern partnership. We are democracies shaped by history and focused on the future," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Jerusalem. Analysis.
It’s hard to know whether the three-hour meeting, which went much longer than planned, was filled with consensus. Yet with Netanyahu and Trump, public appearances may be intentional projections designed to camouflage future intentions.
The indicators are there, though military action takes foresight, timing and precision because success must be the result-once the definition of success is made by governments and their armed forces.
The relationship between the Trump and Netanyahu is very strong. There is complete alignment on Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. And Trump’s fondness toward Israel remains unshakable. Opinion.
This is no longer merely a trial of a prime minister. It has become a trial and exposure of the system that brought him to the dock.
Addressing the world’s most sophisticated anti-Israel organization—the United Nations—the Israeli prime minister fought back against calls for Palestinian Arab statehood, saying “Israel will not allow you to shove a terror state down our throats.”
After suffering humiliating losses on the battlefield, Iran knew it could not survive the wrath of Trump. Iran begged for a ceasefire. It was essentially a complete surrender. Analysis.
After being with Israeli's PM at the Oval Office: The bottom line is that there is a great battle of civilizations taking place, a World Series, that includes the West.
The idea that Israel’s state prosecution and legal system can interrogate a journalist because they do not like what he wrote is the behavior of a Marxist police state. Opinion.
The Israeli Supreme Court will still maintain its authority to rule on petitions and overturn legislation based on legal principles. Op-ed.
The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy. Op-ed.
While the Israeli left has had to concede the government to the right, it is unwilling to give up control of state institutions.Op-ed.
The reforms are to correct a decades-old imbalance between the powers of Israel’s aggressive, activist high court and the government. Op-ed.
Now that the Left is fervently battling Netanyahu's judicial reform, is it taking on the roll BDS has occupied for the past decades?
Israel’s historic right-wing government is the democratic will of the voters, who reject false claims made by the leftist opposition.Op-ed.
The vote was a national referendum on the damage by parliamentarians who conspired to block the people’s choice from serving as PM. Op-ed.
Ben Gvir: Our Bible teaches that we are from here, we have come back to our land. I am not a racist, I do not hate Arabs, I hate terrorists.
The best Israel can do now is hope that the accord turns out as Lapid insists. Don't count on it. Op-ed.
Haiting Netanyahu wasn’t enough to keep a group that agreed on little else together. Op-ed.
If it was not ok for Netanyahu with 30 MKs to lead a minority government, how can Bennett do so with only five members of parliament?Op-ed.
While Bennett can hold off formal negotiations, his left-wing colleagues are laying the groundwork for more 2-state follies.Op-ed.
Lapid has operated without much criticism, but has overseen highly questionable diplomatic moves that harm national-security interests.Op-ed
A push to reopen a shuttered consulate to the PA in Jerusalem is a first major foreign-policy test for Israel’s fragile coalition. Op-ed.
The public will see if it has the new alliance mettle, wisdom and skill to weather the obstacles ahead. Opinion.
If Israel had targeted those outlets for their open support of its enemies, it may have been justified on those grounds alone. Op-ed
Bennett had pledged he would not sit in any government with Lapid. It is now clear that he was negotiating rotation terms all the time.Op-ed
No one factor is to blame. A perfect storm of elements came together, exposing a system filled with flaws, many of them cultural. Op-ed.
Long-serving prime minister thanked citizens, tweeting: “You gave a huge victory for the right and the Likud under my leadership.” Op-ed.
Polls show that the election is Netanyahu’s to win or lose, although one should always expect the unexpected in Israeli politics. Op-ed.
Just as Netanyahu crushed Blue & White alliance that challenged him, he demolished the country’s greater left-wing camp. Opinion
Head of Yamina party Naftali Bennett may be successfully positioning himself as the right wing heir apparent to Netanyahu. Opinion.
Obama’s betrayal of US allies and cozying to the region’s most malign actors paved the way to Israel’s becoming a regional superpower.Op-ed.
A look at the simultaneous fronts Netanyahu is fighting both to remain prime minister and strengthen Israel. Opinion.
Netanyahu is working with Trump to recognize sovereignty over approx. 30 percent of Judea and Samaria. July 1 was not a deadline. Opinion.
