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“Why is this night different from all other nights?” The child’s question at the Seder is asked about a single evening, but it opens onto a larger question: what makes Pesach (the Passover) so singular in the Jewish…

The Middle East Forum has written the report that has been needed. It is a plan for actually succeeding in getting a friendly Iran out of this war.

The report is here. It cites a bunch of our best think tanks, praising them for doing good…

There are moments when a country has to move beyond ambiguity and speak with clarity. Lebanon’s recent decision to declare Iran’s ambassador-designate persona non grata was one such moment.—a rare instance where the state did not hedge,…

I have said it before and I will say it again. Living in the Netherlands today, the moment the word Israel is mentioned, something snaps in people. It is not debate. It is not discussion. It is hysteria.

I have seen it everywhere. On the…

I’ve been trying to figure out my relationship with Israel, and unfortunately, the closest comparison is my alcoholic ex-boyfriend.

My…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel has destroyed Iran’s nuclear weapons production infrastructure and established durable security zones in Gaza, Syria, and Lebanon. That declaration of victory now collides…

For nearly 50 years, Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terror, has used its forces and proxies to kill and wound Americans worldwide, contributing to the deaths of over 1,000 Americans. This persistent threat continues to cast a…

When History Took a Turn for Somaliland: Thanks to Israel, by Mohamed Osman, is a contemporary geopolitical analysis examining the implications of Israel’s formal recognition of Somaliland on December 26, 2025. Published in early 2026, the…

So I wrote a few days ago about watching Sennacherib’s Prism — a 2,700-year-old record of the siege of Jerusalem — get carried into a bomb shelter during a missile alert. It was a pretty surreal thing…but it gets even better.

A few…

A System That Refused to Let Power Settle

The modern obsession with “checks and balances” assumes something deceptively simple: power must be divided, structured, and restrained by design.

We point to the familiar architecture—
United…