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

A Year After the Cease-fire, Israel Enjoys Relative Freedom of Action in Lebanon In Gaza, Trump's Stalled Plan Leaves Hamas Strengthened IDF Chief Doubles Down on Red Lines He Won't Cross in Confrontation With Defense Minister Katz

Even Amid Hamas Attacks and Hezbollah Threats, Netanyahu Focused His Fury on Anti-government Protesters. Police, Shin Bet and Courts Were Pressed to Crack Down – Sometimes Absurdly – While the Supreme Court Allowed Justice Minister Levin to Intervene in Criminal Probes

It Doesn't Require Tanks or Airstrikes, Just Budgets Quietly Stripped From Arab Towns, Empty Promises Quietly Shelved, and Entire Communities Left to Fend for Themselves as Illegal Weapons Flood Our Streets

Jordan and Egypt Don't Need an American Executive Order to Act Against the Muslim Brotherhood, and It Won't Change Their Complex Relations With the Group. It Is Also Not Expected to Affect Hamas' Standing in the Israel-neighboring Countries

Washington, With the Help of Israeli Attacks, Hopes to Compel the Lebanese Government and Army to Disarm Hezbollah. Moreover, the U.S. Postulates That Israeli Aggression Can Force Lebanon to Enter Diplomatic Negotiations With Israel, Possibly Even Joining the Abraham Accords