An IDF bulldozer checks for explosive charges beneath roads approaching the Nur Shams camp near Tulkarem (Screenshot)

IDF, Shin Bet launch major operation in northern West Bank

August 28, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

There has been an alarming escalation of security threats from the northern West Bank in recent months.

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The UN continues to ignore Israeli victims of terrorism

August 28, 2024 | Justin Amler

In the entrance hall to the United Nations in New York, there’s an exhibition reminding those visitors of the victims of terrorist attacks from around the world. But among the many exhibits of attacks, including those in New York, Boston and in Kenya, there’s one glaringly obvious group that is missing.

The aftermath of the violent settler attack upon the West Bank town of Jit (Image: X/ Twitter)

Jewish community condemnation of settler violence is not new

August 27, 2024

Iran Hackers

Iran steps up election interference in the US

August 23, 2024

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Nine months after Oct. 7: Where Israel stands now

Palestinian Red Crescent workers from Al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip (Image: Shutterstock)

Hamas’ impossible casualty figures

Foreign Minister Senator Penny Wong at the United Nations, New York (image: United Nations/screenshot)

Wong’s Middle East proposals would make things worse

October 9, 2024 | Colin Rubenstein

It is appropriate for foreign ministers to float initiatives and ideas to resolve international problems, but they should first be very sure they are improving the situation rather than exacerbating it.

The "Forever War" was declared by Hamas long before October 7 (Image: Shutterstock)

Hamas’ 7 October attack, one year on: How it’s changed the Middle East

October 7, 2024 | Ran Porat

That day, 7 October, was a seismic event in the history of the Middle East. A year later, what are the aftershocks of this event? What are its implications for the Palestinian issue, and for the balance of power in the region between the pro-Western bloc and the “axis of resistance”?

The author's son at the Nova Festival memorial site in Israel

When our Miracle Day turned Black

October 7, 2024 | Tammy Reznik

Until the ‘Black Sabbath’ of 2023, October 7 was our family’s day of miracles… It was also our son’s 21st birthday. 

Over-reliance on technology to provide “early warning” and belief in deterrence led to the IDF being taken by surprise on October 7 (Image: Anas Mohammed/ Shutterstock)

A strategic game changer

September 24, 2024 | Ahron Shapiro

The new strategic reality with which Israel is faced has catalysed fundamental changes in the way Israel defends itself. This article will look at several of those likely changes… a year after October 7 and its aftermath showed the old conceptzia was no longer fit for purpose.

Israeli forces have been forced to return to the increasingly lawless cities of the northern West Bank because they have become a haven for Iranian-armed and funded terror gangs (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

Preventing the West Bank from becoming Gaza

September 24, 2024 | Neomi Neumann

According to ISA estimates, about 15 battalions from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other Palestinian factions are currently operating in the West Bank. Each has dozens of fighters as well as commanders, financiers, and sabotage experts, resulting in attacks that are increasingly sophisticated and daring.

The devastation wrought by October 7 and its aftermath must not be allowed to destroy our optimism (Image: Jose Hernandez/ Shutterstock)

The Last Word: Beyond this year of shattered hope

September 24, 2024 | Rabbi Ralph Genende

It has been a year of shattered pieces, fragmented bodies and fractured hopes. Broken pieces, broken hearts, broken hopes. So much has been crushed and damaged for the Jewish people. It’s hard to let go of the dark images…

The strategically important Philadelphi border corridor between Gaza and Egypt (Image: Eli Dror/X)

Philadelphi Story

Sep 24, 2024

Groups like Human Rights Watch are being granted a “watchdog” role without ever having to prove they are fit to bark (Image: Shutterstock)

Essay: When Rights groups go Wrong

Sep 24, 2024

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Media Microscope: John’s alternate universe

Sep 24, 2024

Commemorations of October 7 are an unbearable prospect for some Israelis (Image: Shutterstock)

Deconstruction Zone: One year is still too soon

Sep 24, 2024

AMUST editor Zia Ahmad (left), and contributors (from top) Daud Batchelor and Fadlullah Wilmot (Screenshots)

AMUST goes nuclear

Sep 24, 2024

Pro-Palestinian protesters outside the New Zealand parliament in Wellington (Image: Reddit)

AIR New Zealand: What October 7 exposed

Sep 23, 2024

Hezbollah operatives caught by surprise by their exploding pagers while shopping (Image: Screenshot/X)

Pager explosions hint at strategy shift

Sep 23, 2024

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Noted and Quoted – October 2024

Sep 23, 2024

Former AP correspondent Matti Friedman offers insights into journalistic bias (Image: Wikipedia)

Scribblings: What ails journalism?

Sep 23, 2024