Yesterday's elections in Israel were a referendum on Netanyahu's annihilation of Gaza and his plan to demolish Iran. A clear majority of Israelis support those policies and trust that Netanyahu will "finish the job". In a speech he delivered on Tuesday to Likud party members and other supporters, the Prime Minister thanked the people who...

On Sunday, a number of Israeli news agencies reported an “unprecedented confrontation” between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir who "clashed over a military action that could renew the conflict with Iran". Zamir, who is widely respected among members of the military and political establishment, apparently refused to...

Is Israel winning its war with Hamas? Not in the classic von Clausewitz sense of the word, because the purpose of war is to achieve a political end-state. What is the political end-state Israel hopes to achieve? Israel wants to remove the Palestinians from Gaza. We know that; everyone knows that. But that hasn't happened,...