As With Trump, Netanyahu's Only Concern Is the Bottom Line. And With American Jews Distracted or Too Weary, He May Make It Out Unscathed Yet Again

Since October 7, Defense Spending Has Jumped by Tens of Billions of Shekels a Year and Israel's Reputation Has Suffered Overseas. The Economy Will Feel These Effects for Years to Come, Even if We Are Far From the 'Lost Decade' After the Yom Kippur War

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