The gap between the victory albums and the war goals reveals more than anything else our deep hunger to finally win. The primary goal set for the war was to dismantle the Iranian nuclear core and remove the existential threat, as the Prime Minister put it. Well, there are still question marks regarding the damage קראו עוד…

Benjamin Netanyahu’s gamble has paid off. The Prime Minister has shown he understands Donald Trump perhaps better than Trump understands himself. We’ve grown used to assuming that when a U.S. president publicly says "no," it means "no." Not so with Trump. According to The New York Times, this "no" was also conveyed during two conversations קראו עוד…

The surprise was indeed remarkable — the Iranians were indeed caught in a false sense of security, and the blows delivered by the IDF and Mossad were indeed severe. However, comparing this to past strategic surprises in history misses an important point. Hitler surprised Stalin by invading Russia — and lived to regret it. Japan קראו עוד…

  Have we reached the point where politicians will act against their own clear political interests? Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) politicians have gotten us used to them being the more rational players. Their record is free of the kinds of trolling that characterized the right wing, which brought down Yitzhak Shamir’s coalition in 1992, or Ayman Odeh, קראו עוד…

A senior member of the negotiation team working to return the hostages recently told me the following: "I always had the feeling there was an inexplicable bias in favor of Qatar. Strange things happened. It started when we were instructed early on to brief Yossi Cohen, the former Mossad chief, ahead of his trip to קראו עוד…