by Gerald A. Honigman 

I had initially meant to focus in this analysis upon a historical evolution of President Trump’s Middle East policy, especially as it has impacted upon an increasingly besieged and beleaguered 9-15 mile wide Israel.

Having been intimately involved in the study of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for over half century at higher academic, professional, and personal levels, I’ve become a somewhat seasoned and astute observer of this strategically important region of the world…

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Peloni:  As past is prologue, it must be recalled that Israel’s greatest threat lies in the internal divisions within its own society.  While faced with great adversity, we Jews have the means to find within ourselves an even greater sense of self destruction than even our greatest enemies could hope to design for us.  The implications of October 7 were very real and truly soul shattering, and it likely touched every Jew who read the briefest of accounts of the unopposed horrors which took place that day.  To our great shame and tragedy, it took the slaughter of so many innocents to waken the nation of Israel to the real threat of divisions which faced them, which held the security services fast while a terror army and its promulgate of terror civilians raped the land and people surrounding the Gaza statelet.  The future is our own to make, and while we are under a diplomatic siege of sorts, we must not lose sight of the greater threat which we pose to ourselves.  Solidarity and unity in the face of adversity will lead to our victory, but division and sectarianism will see us defeated as has been the key to our destruction in more than one iteration of the Jewish Commonwealth.

There is no Palestinian state not only because Israel maintains full control over the territory, but also because of the Palestinian Authority’s failure to establish functioning governing institutions, and Hamas’ dominance.

by  Prof. Eyal Zisser  | 09-28-2025

On December 13, 1949, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel and ordered the transfer of state institutions there from Tel Aviv. In the UN Partition Plan of November 1947, Jerusalem was not included in the Jewish state’s territory. During and after the 1948 War of Independence, proposals were even raised internationally to place the city under international rule, or to hand it over to Jordan. Israel effectively set its capital in Tel Aviv, where the president, government, Knesset and other state institutions sat.

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