Bassam Tawil

"Israel just made all the Middle East happy tonight." — Israeli-Lebanese Christian journalist Jonathan Elkhoury, X, September 27, 2024, "As a Lebanese, this is one of the happiest days in Lebanon's history.... As a human being who holds peace before my

The implications for Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, cannot be overstated. As Israel dismantles Hezbollah’s military infrastructure piece by piece, Nasrallah must now contend with the realization that his strongholds in Beirut are no longer off-limits. Credit: AP

Palestinians have a custom of celebrating in the streets every time Israel is attacked or a Jew is murdered by terrorists. It is hard, if not impossible, to find one senior Palestinian official who is willing to criticize his own people for celebrating

Palestinians standing near the remains of a missile fired from Iran near the West Bank city of Hebron, October 1, 2024. (Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

On a number of occasions over the past few months, US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has declared her support for the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel. Last month, Harris said: "We must have a two-state

On a number of occasions over the past few months, US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has declared her support for the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel. Last month, Harris said: "We must have a two-state solution where we can rebuild Gaza where the Palestinians have security, self-determination and the dignity they so rightly deserve." Harris's repeated talk about the need to establish a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the October 7 atrocities against Israelis is the best gift the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group could have wished for.

"Again and again we see that Israel absolutely made the right call in not heeding the Biden administration and the rest of the world's insistence that the IDF not invade Rafah." — Lahav Harkov, Israeli journalist, X, October 17, 2024. "Pretty rich after

Again and again we see that Israel absolutely made the right call in not heeding the Biden administration and the rest of the world's insistence that the IDF not invade Rafah."— Lahav Harkov, Israeli journalist, X, October 17, 2024."Pretty rich after a year of undermining Netanyahu, saying he MUST go to a ceasefire, MUST deescalate, trying to stop Israel from going into Rafah WHERE SINWAR WAS KILLED, and Kamala boycotting his joint address to Congress - now Biden & Harris have the nerve to congratulate him for setting the path to peace. I'm sure the phone call sounds something like'You were right Bibi [Netanyahu], we apologize,'

"Turkey is bombing and massacring Kurds tonight. No protests, no marches, no media coverage, no condemnations from UN, no ICC arrest warrants for Erdogan. Since 1914 Turkey has killed over 1.5 million Kurds. Stop Kurdish genocide." — Hemdad Mehristani,

"Hezbollah's model is the same as the North Korean model: tunnels in which hundreds of combatants, fully equipped, can pass stealthily and rapidly underground. In our opinion, Hezbollah's 'Land of the Tunnels' project is much larger than the Hamas