Calls for action against Iran are merely calls. Needed urgently are concrete measures. MICHAEL OREN JUL 25, 2024 100 58 Share Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.S. Congress, July 24, 2024. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO) Subscribe “In the Middle East,…
Reading the article, “Palestinians Cheer Carnage,” published in the throes of the Second Intifada twenty-two years ago, elicits far more than a déjà vu. It reminds me that the horrors of October 7 did not so much trigger a war…
This piece was originally published in The Times of Israel. In contrast to English, in which people who can’t get their bearings straight become disoriented—literally, they fail to find the east—in Hebrew, people ma’abedim et ha- tzafon, they lose the north. The…
Hezbollah won’t accept a ceasefire unless Hamas does. Hamas will not agree to a ceasefire. Hence, Israel will go to war against Hezbollah. MICHAEL OREN JUL 03, 2024 58 20 Share This article originally appeared in the Times of Israel. US…
Military Tactic, Media Strategy MICHAEL OREN JUN 20, 2024 78 84 Share This is Part II of a three-part series on the dilemmas posed by Israel’s Iron Dome. Read Part I here. Stay tuned for Part III. Israeli soldiers, above, this…
Terrorist rockets rain on Israeli towns and villages. Tens of thousands are displaced, dozens killed, and vast swaths of territory are set ablaze. Sounds like the Gaza Envelope, the belt of Israeli communities bordering Gaza in the south — but it describes…
The Almost Impenetrable Dome MICHAEL OREN JUN 13, 2024 104 24 Share At 6:28 in the morning of October 7, 2023, the coral sky over the Nova dance festival was streaked with rockets. The largest single barrage in the history of Hamas’s…
Why Israel should NOT have a “day after plan” for Gaza DANIEL POMERANTZ JUN 06, 2024 59 6 Share On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and ministers…
(Courtesy) Editor’s Note: On December 11, 2023, Clarity published “The One Simple Question That Determines Everything: Part I,” the first section of a two-part guest piece by Professor Andrew Pessin on October 7 and its reception across college campuses. In…
Seventy-six years ago today a single act of courage may have saved the newborn state of Israel MICHAEL OREN MAY 29, 2024 2 Share Thirty years ago, pursuing a lifelong dream, I wrote a film script. It told the…
