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May 6, 2026, 9:36 PM

Beyond a Lebanon Buffer Zone

Israeli forces are once again fighting across southern Lebanon. The official language is familiar: cleared villages, temporary security belts, eliminated commanders, degraded infrastructure. The pattern is familiar because the underlying reality is familiar. Israel is not confronting a new...

Oct 22, 2025, 8:29 PM

The Turkish Trap in Gaza

Has Israel just committed one of its greatest strategic blunders by agreeing to Trump’s peace plan, a deal that has allowed Erdogan’s Turkey an active presence in Gaza? Only days after the signatures, Turkish bulldozers, flags flying, were photographed...

Sep 19, 2025, 5:36 PM

Israel’s Future Is East, Not Sparta

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered back-to-back speeches that jolted Israel’s public debate. In the first, he warned that Israel faces growing isolation and called for building a self-reliant economy with “autarkic characteristics” and turning the country into...

Jun 17, 2025, 8:18 PM

Victory Achieved, Now Comes the Sweep

If you turn on the television or any Western podcast, you might find yourself wondering: are they even watching the same events unfolding in Iran? Since Friday the 13th, time feels accelerated. So much has happened in so little...

Dec 16, 2024, 3:53 PM

Is Jordan Next?

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As Bashar al-Assad settles into his new Russian-hosted dacha, with Damascus smouldering and ISIS-like factions rounding up Alawite elites to bolster their new regime, the world is finally catching up to the shifting dynamics in the Middle East. Israel,...

Jun 18, 2014, 8:51 PM

How Israel Can Save Elon Musk’s Hyperloop

When Elon Musk unveiled his newest and maybe most ambitious invention to the world last August, a next-generation transportation system called the Hyperloop which would use vacuum tubes to shoot passenger pods at incredible speeds, many scoffed, writing the...

Feb 28, 2012, 7:46 AM

Tal Law Reconciled

Last week the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision to nullify the Tal Law, which formally exempts yeshiva students from serving in the IDF. Though the law is formally just ten years old, it has been de facto...

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Ariel Harkham is a writer and the co-founder of the Jewish National Initiative

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