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Mar 4, 2025, 4:10 PM
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Netanyahu’s strategy could soon test Trump’s patience
The US president's support for releasing all Israeli hostages and ending the war sets him on a collision course with the PM
Dec 2, 2024, 3:57 PM
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Why I just subscribed to Haaretz
The headlines of newspapers at a shop in Jerusalem, July 25, 2023, a day after the 'reasonableness bill' passed in the Knesset. (Chaim Goldbeg/Flash90)
The government's multi-pronged assault on the independence of Israel's news media takes a page out of the authoritarian playbook
Nov 10, 2023, 1:17 PM
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The price Thailand – and the world – will pay to free its hostages
A Thai delegation meeting in Tehran with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, as shown on Channel 12 news on November 7, 2023 (Screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
Even with its history of being targeted by Iranian terrorism, Thai negotiators still went to Tehran to try to cut a deal with Hamas
Jun 1, 2023, 3:19 PM
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Belgium’s shameful, dangerous deal with Iran
People at a demonstration in Brussels hold placards calling to free Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele, who was detained in Iran. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)
The release of a jailed Iranian terrorist to free an aid worker held captive in Teheran spells the return of ‘hostage diplomacy’ 
Mar 2, 2022, 3:49 PM
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Israel’s strategic importance in the new Cold War
With Russia isolated in the international arena and challenged in the Eastern Mediterranean, a militarily strong Israel is well-placed to back the Western alliance
Jul 8, 2021, 4:30 PM
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Israel’s message to Iran must be ‘If Hezbollah hits us, we’ll hit you’
Supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah terror group gather to watch the transmission on a large screen of a speech by the movement's leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the town of Al-Ain in Lebanon's Bekaa valley on August 25, 2019. (AFP)
It's not enough to focus only on the nuclear agreement and on battling aggression from Lebanon. Israel needs a comprehensive regional strategy
Jul 23, 2017, 11:17 AM
The Jerusalem Temple Mount terrorist attack
On Friday, July 14, 2017, 7:00, three terrorists, Israeli Arab citizens, shoot two Israeli Druze Border Police officers. The three Arab-Israeli gunmen — Muhammad Ahmed Muhammad Jabarin, 29; Muhammad Hamad Abdel Latif Jabarin, 19 and Muhammad Ahmed Mafdal Jabarin,...
Mar 7, 2017, 3:52 PM
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Hamas’s grip on Gaza is the real strategic threat
A Palestinian man helps a boy set fire to an Israeli flag during a graduation ceremony for Hamas security forces in Gaza City on January 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)
The terror group has grown stronger and bolder, threatening Israel’s security and any chance of achieving peace
Dec 16, 2016, 5:56 AM
Iranian Terrorism Bullying the International Community
Iranian leaders have claimed a military victory in Aleppo, with the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s chief military aide boasting that Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s forces would have been unable to retake the besieged city without support from Tehran. “Aleppo was...
Mar 1, 2016, 3:06 PM
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Iran funding Palestinian terrorism
An update for those who may be wondering what Teheran is doing with its billions in sanctions relief
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About Me
Dr. Ely Karmon is a Senior Researcher at The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and a lecturer at the Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel
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