Beirut Understands Well the Meaning of Israel's Threat to Expand the Fighting. The Question Is Whether Israel Recognizes the Consequences

Anyone Who Has Read the Court Transcripts Understands That No Power Can Save Benjamin Netanyahu From Conviction on at Least Some of the Charges. But the Pardon Request Submitted to President Herzog Contains No Hint of This, and Appears to Be the Most Brazen Request Ever Submitted

A Pardon on the Terms Netanyahu Is Demanding Would Be a Death Blow to the Judicial System and the Rule of Law, and Would Confirm His Claim That a Vengeful 'Deep State' Fabricated a Case Against Him

Netanyahu's Accountability Cannot Stop on October 7, 2023, nor at the Israeli Side of the Gaza Border. Letting Him Off the Hook for What Israel Did in Gaza Is No Less Defining for Israel's Future as It Seeks to Rebuild Itself After His Long and Destructive Rule

The Israeli Prime Minister Continues to Stand in the Way of Donald Trump's Regional Interests, All While Boasting of the U.S. President's Support for the Coveted Pardon. But Pardoned or Not, Netanyahu – Like Nixon – Will Carry the Stink of Corruption Forever

Hospitals Are Nonfunctional, Recovery Is Slow, and Danger Persists Along the Yellow Line. A Weakened Hamas Can't Begin Gaza's Reconstruction, and It Is Unclear if and What International Force Will Enter the Strip to Begin Rehabilitation

For the Prime Minister and Defense Minister Israel Katz, Every Concession in Matters of Appointments and Powers Is an Opening for More Demands. Katz, Whose Eyes Are on the Likud Primary, Wields an Appalling Cynicism, When He's Not Forgoing a Legal Basis Altogether

As the New National Syrian Army Juggles the Demands of Thousands of Assad Deserters, Foreign Fighters Who Joined the Rebels During the War, and New Kurdish Conscripts, al-Sharaa's Regime Is Expected to Leverage the Clashes With the IDF in Southern Syria to Pressure Israel Into Making Concessions

Mansour Abbas of the United Arab List Understands That the Place of an Arab-led Party in the Israeli Coalition Is Not Something That Can Wait for That Far-off Day After the Occupation Has Ended. That's a Threat to Everything Benjamin Netanyahu's Government Stands For

What Israel Katz Did in the Finance Ministry, and Later in the Foreign Ministry, He Is Now Doing to the Defense Establishment. In One Thing, He Is Even Aligned With Netanyahu: Keeping the Army on Edge. Meanwhile, Netanyahu Has Delivered an Early Christmas Gift to Antisemites Around the World