Middle Israel

Middle Israel: If Israel's opposition wants to govern, they should rally behind Eisenkot - opinion

With Eisenkot emerging as the opposition's strongest electoral asset, its rival leaders should stop competing for the top spot and instead present voters with a united shadow cabinet.

LT.-GEN. (RET.) GADI EISENKOT lost a son and two nephews to Israel’s wars, making him a potent symbol of what the IDF-serving population has endured while ultra-Orthodox leaders attempt to ‘etch non-service in constitutional stone,’ the author contends.
ONE OF the Mossad’s notable failures is the botched assassination attempt of then-Hamas leader Khaled Mashal in 1997. The organization’s incoming chief, Roman Gofman, will need to both examine and reform the Mossad’s inner workings.

Middle Israel: Roman Gofman's Mossad successes will be measured by Barnea's failures - opinion

Yariv Levin (left), Benjamin Netanyahu, and Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset last year. The question is whether  this brazen effort to bury the truth will work, and the answer is it won’t.

Denial as policy: Why Israel's government fears a real October 7 inquiry - opinion

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir speaks to Israeli soldiers near the Gaza border, October 9, 2025

Two years on: How the Israel-Hamas War is a landmark in military thinking - opinion


Hamas can be defeated by rendering it insignificant in Palestinian arena - opinion

Israel can still stabilize the northern part of the Gaza Strip, allow local authorities to operate, while removing Hamas-affiliated officials.

 Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2023.

Columbia riots’ masterminds are after the free world and the West

No, the rioting at Columbia was not about the freedom, democracy, equality, justice, or peace that the Middle East craves. It was about their eradication.

 A STUDENT DEMONSTRATION and riot at Columbia University in New York, in 1968.

Unity is more than just a naïve cliché, it's a matter of national security - opinion

This is The Plan. All we have to do, is not cooperate with the plot and understand that unity is more than just a naive cliché, but a matter of national security.

 A DEMONSTRATION in support of the Palestinians in Gaza is held near the Israel Embassy in Amman, last weekend. Incitement against Israel and the US spurs the Jordanian public to attack the Jordanian regime, if it adopts a policy that reflects cooperation with one of them, says the writer.

Gaza's day after: A roadmap

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Gaza’s catastrophe can be brought to an end if all the governments Hamas threatens by its very existence launch the following plan.

 PALESTINIANS WALK past the ruins of houses destroyed during the Gaza war, in Gaza City, last month.

Ireland's hostility towards Israel must be stopped - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Fed by self-importance, ignorance, and malice, Ireland’s abuse of Israel has gone from tragedy to farce.

 PROTESTERS ATTEND a solidarity rally in Dublin, Ireland, for Palestinians in Gaza late last year.

Netanyahu’s last opportunity: It's not too late for Israel's PM - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: It’s not too late for the divisive prime minister to end his collapsing career with a gesture of national reconciliation.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference about the Gaza war late last year

Don't invade Iran, attack its regime and utilize its populace - opinion

The all-out war Tehran is steadily provoking should be waged only from outside its borders, because the mullahs' defeat should come from within.

 IRAN’S ARMY chief Maj.-Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi and Defense Minister Brig.-Gen. Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani walk near Iranian drones that are inducted into Iran’s Army, in Tehran.

An ode to Amnon Rubenstein: The best politician Israel ever had

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Amnon Rubinstein passed away while Israel grapples with the worst crisis in its history; and craves a new political dawn that will replace a departing era’s surplus of divisive leaders

AMNON RUBINSTEIN (right) with then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Shulamit Aloni, in 1994.

Israel must draw a red line in Gaza - opinion

Israel must avoid any empowerment of any of Hamas’s members, or the Jewish state will lose its sense of security, not to mention its merciless neighborhood’s respect. 

Israeli soldiers stand as they operate, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Gaza, January 8, 2024.

South Africa goes to war against Israel at the ICJ - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: South Africa, you are in no position to preach anything to anyone outside your land, least of all humanism, least of all to the Jews.

 SOUTH AFRICA’S President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers a statement at the World Climate Action Summit in Dubai, last month.