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Why Netanyahu’s Lebanon talks could shift balance against Hezbollah

Opinion: Even without a deal or Hezbollah disarmament, Netanyahu’s move to open Lebanon talks could benefit both sides and weaken the group, even if fighting intensifies

Avi Issacharoff | 04.10.26

Netanyahu wants to be Churchill — but won’t tell the truth like him

Opinion: PM rushed to declare victory instead of defining clear goals, avoiding hard truths about Iran’s nuclear threat and leaving key questions unanswered about whether the war can truly achieve its aims

Avi Issacharoff | 03.28.26

Not crumbling, not collapsing: Hezbollah maintains command structure despite Israeli strikes

Opinion: Nearly two weeks into the war between Israel, Iran and Hezbollah, the group’s secretary-general, Naim Qassem, appears to be functioning as the top decision-maker while maintaining a relatively intact chain of command and control

Avi Issacharoff | 03.14.26

Before a 'new Middle East,' focus on the war’s realistic goals

Opinion: The war’s critical objective should be halting Iran’s nuclear program and crippling its ballistic missile capabilities, forcing Tehran’s new leadership to accept the terms proposed by President Donald Trump’s envoys in earlier talks

Avi Issacharoff | 03.07.26

Hezbollah risks stinging Lebanon like the scorpion and the frog

Opinion: The terrorist organization could not avoid responding to the Israeli attack on Iran and the assassination of its greatest and most significant patron, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Avi Issacharoff | 03.02.26

מפקד אוגדה 162 ומפקד שייטת 13 דאז בחמ"ל המבצע "דרום אדום" להשבת אורון שאול ז"ל

Hamas operative who broke under investigation, Palestinian carried the body to IDF under fire

Newly revealed details show how intelligence deception, a covert abduction and artillery fire masking the final move enabled the recovery of Oron Shaul’s remains from Gaza more than a decade after his death

Avi Issacharoff | 01.23.26

Killing of Hamas second-in-command Raad Saad is a tactical win, not a strategic one

Opinion: operation highlights Israel’s military strength, but without a political plan for Gaza it risks reinforcing Hamas’ survival, recovery and long-term control rather than weakening it

Avi Issacharoff | 12.14.25

How Israel captured the Gaza doctor who handled Hadar Goldin’s body

Al-Hams, who worked at Rafah’s Youssef al-Najjar Hospital, served in Hamas’ military wing as a brigade doctor and also managed field hospitals for the Hamas-run health ministry during the war

Avi Issacharoff | 11.27.25

Conditions are ripe for a third intifada

Opinion: Iran is trying to destabilize Judea and Samaria, and is pouring large quantities of weapons into Israel; Jewish terrorism is rampant in the territories, under the auspices of the state and the Israeli police; The Palestinian Authority is weakening, but Israel is not strengthening it even though it knows it is in its own interest

Avi Issacharoff | 11.19.25

דונלד טראמפ מרקו רוביו בית לבן שלום מזרח תיכון מגעים מו"מ משא ומתן קהיר מצרים פתק

Everyone won, everyone lost: The limits of Trump’s Israel-Hamas deal

Both Israel and Hamas can claim victory in the new deal, each achieving significant gains but falling short of their goals; without completing Trump’s peace plan, however, the agreement is likely to be only temporary

Avi Issacharoff | 10.10.25

The deal Israel cannot afford to miss

Opinion: Even if only the hostage-release clause of Trump’s plan is carried out, it would be an exceptional deal for Israel — one so favorable that few in Israel would have dared to imagine it

Avi Issacharoff | 10.05.25

Hamas faces its toughest dilemma yet over Trump’s peace plan

Opinion: Hamas leaders are torn over Trump’s peace proposal: agreeing means surrendering weapons and identity, while rejecting risks massive destruction in Gaza and renewed global isolation.

Avi Issacharoff | 10.03.25

Hamas' dilemma in the face of the Trump plan

If it says yes, Hamas will no longer be Hamas and if it says no, Hamas will be seen as the greatest obstacle to stopping the war in Gaza; It can be assumed that the pressure on the Hamas leadership in Doha is enormous, the question is what the Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip will say

Avi Issacharoff | 10.03.25

Despite promise that this time it will be different, another Gaza offensive won’t end the war

Opinion: The government that imposed Operation Gideon’s Chariots II on the military is banking on the public’s short memory and on a universal hope: one more operation and it will be over; this is not the reality, however

Avi Issacharoff | 09.18.25

Israel’s strike against Hamas in Qatar was long overdue

Opinion: IDF's strike on terror group's leaders in Doha was a long-overdue reckoning with a rogue mediator—shattering Qatar's shield of impunity and shifting power to Gaza’s battlefield commanders

Avi Issacharoff | 09.10.25

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