Iran’s Developing Designs on the Golan, and How to Stop Them
Tightening the noose on Israel.
May 4, 2017
Iran’s Developing Designs on the Golan, and How to Stop Them
Tightening the noose on Israel.
Over the past three years, Tehran has been exploiting the chaos in Iraq and Syria to expand its influence in the Levant, with an eye toward establishing at least one, and probably two, corridors under its control through which it can funnel weapons and troops. These corridors, writes Ehud Yaari, go from Iran, across both the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, through the Iraqi desert, into Syria and then to Lebanon, much of which is under the control of Hizballah, itself a proxy of the Islamic Republic. The endpoint is Israel’s northern border (free registration required):
May 4, 2017
Israel Isn’t as Polarized as You Might Think
From Ḥaredim to leftists, there’s moderation to go around.
Can the Arab World Recover from the Six-Day War?
It won’t be easy.
Two Great Hebrew Poets Whose Faces Will Be on Israeli Currency
Poems of the land of Israel.
What a Mennonite Theologian’s Quietist Reading of the Hebrew Bible Gets Wrong
John Howard Yoder’s pedagogical Scripture.