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Iran’s grip on Hormuz was never as strong as it looked - opinion

According to recent US government estimates, roughly 15 million barrels of Gulf oil are now leaving the region each day through the strait and alternative export routes.

 A map showing the Strait of Hormuz and Iran is seen in this illustration taken June 22, 2025.
Shattered windows at Kiva’s Bagel Bar after suspected antisemitic attack in Toronto, Canada. July 26, 2026.

As antisemitism rises, the Jewish world faces a turning point - opinion

A general view picture shows houses in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, in the West Bank February 15, 2017

The E1 debate is not just about West Bank settlement construction - it’s about security - opinion

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America, beware: The battle over Israel’s identity could be coming for the US - opinion


The Middle East’s ‘peace architecture’ may be giving rise to an anti-Israel bloc - opinion

Instead of building peace, we are building a system in which Israel's enemies keep their weapons while Israel's friends gain the power to tell Israel when it may use its own.

World leaders gather during a charter announcement for US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace, in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026

The end of the ‘Goldene Medina’ - opinion

Antisemitism is the fundamental trigger of hostility to Israel and not vice versa, nor is the latter primarily a consequence of the political character of whichever Israeli government...

Thousands of Jewish and Israeli Americans participate in the annual Israel Day Parade, the world’s largest pro-Israel parade, on May 31, in New York City. Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who did not attend the march, is the first New York mayor not to do so.

SNAFU on the Potomac: Trump, Iran, and the dysfunction in Washington - opinion

The incumbents will swear they’ve been working diligently for you, but it is all the others who’ve made the mess. Most citizens will agree on the need for change but then send in the same old clowns.

 Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance point to the stage during Day 1 of the Republican National Convention (RNC), at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024.

Economic pressure can buy Israel time. Mistaking it for a strategy would squander it - opinion

A blockade would impose real costs on Tehran and make Israel safer. But weakening Iran is not the same as toppling the regime. It is the difference between buying time and solving the problem.

 People wave flags next to an Iranian missile on display during the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 10, 2025.

Kurds are not a proxy. We are a nation without a front - opinion

I can forgive an anonymous stranger a cheap joke. I have less patience for people who call themselves intellectuals and arrive at the identical idea in longer sentences.

Israelis from Kurdish origin take part in a rally in support of the Kurdish referendum outside the American consulate in Jerusalem September 24, 2017

The question is not ‘Bibi: Yes or no?’ but the answer is, ‘Which Israel?’ - opinion

Perhaps, after nearly 80 years devoted to changing the Jewish condition, Israel has reached another stage of Zionism.

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Is Netanyahu the Palestinians’ new BFF? - opinion

The Saudis insisted they would not normalize relations until Israel and the Palestinians had made credible progress on negotiations toward statehood, something Netanyahu rejected.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, attend a funeral service for the late US senator Lindsey Graham in Washington, in July 2026.

The DSA says October 7 was inevitable. It was planned. It was a choice - opinion

October 8 was not weeks later. It was not after Israel entered Gaza and began its military operation. It was the very next day. Israelis were still counting the dead, the burned and desecrated bodies

 View of the Re'im music festival massacre, in southern Israel, January 16, 2025.

Israel must prepare its Joshua Generation for the post-Netanyahu era - opinion

Israel has become a military, technological, and economic powerhouse. Yet as its strategic strength has reached historic heights, its international legitimacy has increasingly come under attack.

THE KNESSET during a meeting on December 24, 2025.

The question raised inside the White House that could define America's future - opinion

The Constitution protects liberty, but can the US preserve freedom without the moral culture that sustains it?

The US Capitol building is pictured at 5:04 pm, five years after the building was overrun by pro-Trump supporters, in Washington, DC, US, January 6, 2026