Yochanan Visser

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Mar 5, 2025, 9:03 PM

All you need to know about Israel and Syria

While all eyes were on Gaza last week, a dramatic shift in Israeli strategy toward southern Syria occurred that was not widely understood. The decision to let the IDF penetrate deeper into the area east of the border in the...

Mar 24, 2020, 11:26 PM

The Israeli Health System And Corona

This is a true story and the reason that I decided to write it up is that the Corona crisis in Israel is spinning out of control not only because of misconduct by segments of the Israeli population who...

May 17, 2016, 5:40 PM

Who was behind the assassination of Mustafa Badreddine and why did Hezbollah lie about the perpetrators of the hit

On Thursday night last week, Hezbollah’s top military commander was killed in Syria. The Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group is heavily involved in the Syrian war and has more than 5,000 fighters in the battlefield at any given time to...

Oct 7, 2015, 3:22 PM

American Israeli singer finds original way to teach the world a lesson about the Temple Mount

Jews who want to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem are often depicted as dangerous extremists because they only represent one group in Israeli society. Here's, however, somebody who says that the Temple cannot be rebuilt until there will be unity...

Jul 7, 2015, 11:24 AM

Are ISIS’ actions not Islamic? Judge for yourself

Last week, British lawmakers urged the BBC to stop using the term “Islamic State” for ISIS (also called ISIL), the jihadist organization led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Prime Minister David Cameron is one of over a hundred British politicians...

Jun 5, 2015, 12:17 AM

How Dutch Historians Grossly Distorted Israeli History In High School Book

The controversy about the Dutch textbook, History Workshop (Geschiedeniswerkplaats) continued to make headlines this week when Dutch paper NRC bluntly stated that authors of the book were correct when they called former Israeli Prime Minister Begin a terrorist. NRC reacted...

Mar 31, 2015, 10:19 PM

Yemen crisis shows madness of Obama’s Middle East policy

Last week Saudi Arabia entered the civil war in Yemen after Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels conquered the outskirts of the southern city of Aden. This was the first time the monarchy directly intervened in the bloody Sunni-Shia struggle that...

Feb 9, 2015, 9:45 PM

Iran takes over Yemen and Iraq with Obama’s permission

Last Friday, Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels dissolved Yemen’s parliament and set up a five-member presidential council to form a transitional government to govern Yemen for the next two years. The steps were taken to fill a power vacuum after President...

Jan 26, 2015, 8:32 PM

Iran continues to deceive the world

Last week's IAF strike on a Hezbollah convoy near Kuneitra on the Israel-Syria border in which six members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed has led to increased Iranian threats to annihilate the Jewish State. Iranian top...

Dec 28, 2014, 1:06 AM

The gathering storm in north Israel

The observation post in Kuneitra on the Israeli Syrian border has become an attraction for Israelis who want to witness first hand how the Islamists of Jabhat-al-Nusra, a local branch of Al Qaeda, control the border. When I arrived at...

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About Me

Yochanan Visser is a freelance journalist and director of Missing Peace Information, an independent news agency. He wrote a book about the cognitive war against Israel in the Dutch language. He worked for years as an Middle East analyst at Israel National News, Israel Today and CFI and wrote more than 500 updates on Israel's multi-front war

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