Trump prefers an agreement to another prolonged war, but he also understands that an agreement reached through weakness can produce an even greater conflict.

The truce touted by Trump will not end any of those wars, none of which is likely to end unless Iran breaks with Khomeinism and chooses another trajectory.

At the center of Mladenov's proposal is an astonishing assumption.

Do not listen to the liberal media outlets that are telling you to stop, de-escalate, or accept 20-year fake 'moratoriums' or other idiotic half-measures.

The message, along with other documents seized by the IDF over the past two years, exposes extensive strategic coordination between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.

The brave Iranian people represent millions of 'boots on the ground'—if only they would have the means to defend themselves to shift the balance of power.

Supposing that such a scheme does take shape and is implemented, who could guarantee that either Iran or a future US administration would abide by it?

The Islamic Republic survives by turning loyalty into a business model.

The fear now is that the Trump Administration is appearing to back away from its original demand of total regime change in Iran.

Critics often frame Iranian politics as a struggle between moderates and hardliners, but this distinction has repeatedly proven disastrously misleading.

By criminalizing people-to-people engagement, Arab and Muslim leaders and institutions send a powerful message to their populations: Peace with Israel is not merely undesirable but a crime.

Trump met Iran's moves with countermoves that were even stronger, instead of with restraint.

Despite facing continual expulsions, persecution, and pogroms in foreign lands, the Jewish people endure somehow.

For the Iranian regime and its proxies, survival equals victory. If they are not destroyed, if they retain their weapons, if they remain in power, they can claim success.

The idea that Iran's beleaguered people will suddenly, somehow, with no weapons whatsoever, magically rise up and take back their country from a regime armed to the teeth and with a rich record of mass murder is beyond delusional.

At its peak, Lebanon enjoyed one of the highest GDP per capita levels in the region and was regarded as a rare oasis of stability in a turbulent Middle East.

Al-Jazeera Arabic has repeatedly broadcast speeches by senior Hamas figures, such as Khaled Mashaal, Ismail Haniyeh, Saleh al-Arouri, Mohammed Deif and Khalil al-Hayya.

If this conflict accomplished nothing else, it has shown that Iran's ballistic missile program represents an existential danger to countries in both the Middle East and Europe.

Negotiations risk not only legitimizing an Islamist terror group but also entrenching its authoritarian rule in the Gaza Strip and paving the way for more massacres against Israel.

A ceasefire deal now would not resolve the underlying problem—it would freeze it in place temporarily while allowing the regime to recover.

Something fundamental has changed. The aura of inevitability has been broken. The image of invulnerability has been shattered. Fear has begun to change sides.

There is something deeply misguided – if not outright dangerous – about the idea that the US or other international parties should beg Hamas to lay down its weapons.

The US and the rest of the international community were wrong to assume that Hezbollah would honor the ceasefire agreement with Israel.

Tehran assumed that it enjoys the advantage of having a single war goal: survival.

For the first time in decades, truly courageous leadership has emerged in the presence of U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Some analysts describe an emerging 'Sunni axis,' or noose, influenced by Muslim Brotherhood ideology, backed by Turkish military power, financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and designed, by expanding into Gaza, to encircle and finish off Israel.

Having survived wars, sanctions, and internal unrest for nearly half a century, it calculates that patience can defeat even the most determined external pressure.

The problem is a pattern of tolerating an intolerance that would not be accepted if it were aimed at any ethnic group other than Jews.

By omitting Jewish ties to Jerusalem, the Palestinians are saying that there will be no Jews in a future Palestinian state.

Iran identifies countries where enforcement is weak, political cover is available, or financial systems can be exploited, then proceeds to build layers of infrastructure there.

Saudi Arabia's renewed anti-Israel and antisemitic rhetoric shows that the kingdom is moving away from normalization with Israel in favor of an alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar and Turkey.

This says a great deal about the gap between words and actions among certain European leaders.

Change the word 'oil' above to 'real estate development' for Gaza, and Trump will have delivered the most far-reaching peace ever in history—twice—to two separate hemispheres.

As Tehran's domestic legitimacy erodes, so too does the ideological credibility on which its proxies depend.

To stop this cycle, sanctions enforcement must shift from symbolic—fictitious—pressure to the systematic suffocation of the Iranian regime.

When those countries realize that empowering Iran's regime comes at the cost of losing access to the entire US and EU markets, their calculus might change.

The failed UNIFIL model is now poised to be replicated in Gaza, where Hamas will predictably exploit a weak, UNIFIL-style 'nanny' force to rearm and operate with impunity—just as Hezbollah did in Lebanon.

Acquiring F-35 stealth fighters would significantly increase Turkey's war-fighting capabilities in the event of Ankara becoming involved in direct hostilities with Israel after Trump leaves office.

Allowing Turkey or Qatar to play any role in the Gaza Strip means empowering Hamas to reassert its control of the coastal area and rearm and regroup.

The men and women of the IDF have proven to be the greatest generation of this era. They are worthy successors to King David and his mighty men.