Hillel Frisch

The author is a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, Israel’s new conservative security think tank.

 A VIDEO released last month by Yemen’s Houthis shows what they say is smoke rising from a fire aboard a Greek-flagged oil tanker in the Red Sea. Says the writer: No one in the Saudi media would question why Riyadh isn’t cooperating in confronting Houthi attacks. (Houthi Military Media/Reuters)

Media in Israel stands in stark contrast to media in the Arab world - opinion

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, July 2020

Israeli retaliation at Iran should hit regime targets - opinion

 A TALIBAN member points his gun at Afghan protesters, near the Pakistan embassy in Kabul, September 7.

Afghanistan’s lesson: Where the US should (and should not) be as a maritime world power


Has the IDF lost the willingness to fight? - opinion

Has the IDF, once known for an attacking thrust, become an army that is unwilling to fight on the ground even when absolutely necessary, as in the case of the troops amassed along the Gaza perimeter?

IDF ARTILLERY CORPS members fire retaliatory strikes into Gaza in May.

Are 'indigenous' Arabs the new 'master race' of UK academia? - opinion

Claims of superiority on the basis of being indigenous forms the basis of the future vision documents released by leading Arab intellectuals in Israel.

Students protest US recognition of Jerusalem at Tel Aviv University

In Jordan’s 2020 parliamentary elections the king wins hands down

The king, who of course, did not contest the elections, nevertheless, won hands down.

Jordan's King Abdullah meets Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan March 12, 2018.

Zionism is about being pioneers in the land

In a recent interview to commemorate the Yom Kippur War, Gen. Amnon Reshef was quick to utilize the opportunity to call upon the Israeli population to be faithful to Zionism.

RETIRED MAJ.-GEN. and ‘Commanders for Israel’s Security’ past head Amnon Reshef heroically led the regiment that suffered the brunt of the Egyptian surprise attack in the first days of the Yom Kippur War.

The EU’s discrimination of Israel continues over housing demolitions

To fully absorb how shocking this finding is, one has to realize that housing demolitions and evictions are not only a world-wide phenomenon.

A PALESTINIAN man stands in front of a house in the village of Al-Walaja in 2018 after it was demolished by IDF troops.

Soleimani’s fast-fading memory reflects Iran’s sclerotic regime

Analyzing the contours of the memory of Soleimani clearly shows that most of the Iranian population is neither interested in his assassination nor in his “revolutionary” legacy.

A supporter of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah carries pictures of the late Iran's Quds Force top commander Qassem Soleimani during a rally commemorating the annual Hezbollah's slain leaders in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon February 16, 2020

Will the PA erupt over sovereignty in the Jordan Valley?

The odds are against massive violence after annexation, but Israel must be prepared for any scenario

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a leadership meeting in Ramallah, in the West Bank May 19, 2020

A flight guide to Iran’s coronavirus economic meltdown

The devastating economic effect of the isolation can be seen in the flights by the Iranian air carriers which continue to fly.

A medical team sprays disinfectant to sanitize Imam Reza's holy shrine, following the coronavirus outbreak, in Mashhad, Iran

How Hamas is spending Qatari money

Protection rackets provide “protection” for profit. Much of that profit, typically, is plowed back to the organization to render it even more powerful.

A Palestinian Hamas-hired civil servant displays U.S. Dollar banknotes after receiving her salary paid by Qatar, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip December 7, 2018.

Rifts in the Middle East have gone global

Where the Muslim Middle East dwarfs the rest of the Muslim world is in the political headlines it generates in Western media sites.

FLAGS OF Arab states are seen along the Nile River ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Cairo