Hillel Frisch

The author is a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, Israel’s new conservative security think tank.

 Rescuers work at the site of a damaged building, in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025.

The US is winning the war of attrition against Iran - opinion

The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is shown at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California, US, August 11, 2025

Iran’s empty skies reveal the hidden cost of US sanctions, pressure - opinion

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last Shah of Iran, speaks during a press conference about the situation in Iran and the need to support Iranians, in Paris, France, June 23, 2025.

Iranian public opinion rallies around Reza Pahlavi as leader - opinion


Trump's 20-point plan more delusional than Oslo Accords - opinion

After two years of war on several fronts, many Israelis want to believe that US President Trump's plan will produce peace.

YITZHAK RABIN and Yasser Arafat, under the gaze of then-US president Bill Clinton, sign a peace protocol on the White House lawn in 1993.

Why Arab states, Palestinian Authority will not run Gaza's 'day-after' - opinion

It is clear that the PA will not be able to deal with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza with a population 30 times larger or even more.

EGYPT’S FOREIGN MINISTER Badr Abdelatty (right) meets with Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi in Cairo in March. The two did not express a willingness to contribute their own forces toward ensuring security in Gaza after an IDF withdrawal, says the writer

Hunger in Gaza? Not according to visuals on Hamas TV - opinion

One hour of viewing Hamas’s al-Aqsa channel shows both emaciated babies and normal-looking adults.

A Palestinian youth holds a can of chickpeas from an aid package dropped from an airplane, amid a hunger crisis, in the central Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025; illustrative.

Israeli university professor Omer Bartov's accusations of Israeli genocide are untenable - opinion

Accusations are cheap and destructive. Bartov would do better to marshal his knowledge to propose how Israel should conduct this justifiable war.

IDF SOLDIERS exit a tunnel underneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis.

Media in Israel stands in stark contrast to media in the Arab world - opinion

In the Middle East, press freedom is rare—except in Israel. Explore the irony behind media censorship.

 A VIDEO released last month by Yemen’s Houthis shows what they say is smoke rising from a fire aboard a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea. Says the writer: No one in the Saudi media would question why Riyadh isn’t cooperating in confronting Houthi attacks. (Houthi Military Media/Reuters)

Israeli retaliation at Iran should hit regime targets - opinion

Harming the Iranian people would be a mistake. It is the regime that seeks Israel’s eradication, not the Iranian people.

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, July 2020

Afghanistan’s lesson: Where the US should (and should not) be as a maritime world power

The painful withdrawal from Afghanistan teaches three important lessons to the leader at the helm in the White House.

 A TALIBAN member points his gun at Afghan protesters, near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul, September 7.

Has the IDF lost the willingness to fight? - opinion

Has the IDF, once known for an attacking thrust, become an army that is unwilling to fight on the ground even when absolutely necessary, as in the case of the troops amassed along the Gaza perimeter?

IDF ARTILLERY CORPS members fire retaliatory strikes into Gaza in May.

Are 'indigenous' Arabs the new 'master race' of UK academia? - opinion

Claims of superiority on the basis of being indigenous forms the basis of the future vision documents released by leading Arab intellectuals in Israel.

Students protest US recognition of Jerusalem at Tel Aviv University

In Jordan’s 2020 parliamentary elections the king wins hands down

The king, who of course, did not contest the elections, nevertheless, won hands down.

Jordan's King Abdullah meets Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan March 12, 2018.