https://youtu.be/Q8qgoGMa78k     The precursors for the October 7th massacres began 75 years ago. Beginning with approximately 700,000 Palestinian refugees from the original War of Independence of the state of Israel, refugee status has been passed down from generation to generation. Not only has this status been bequeathed, along with the “right of return” to […]

https://youtu.be/cc4BmPjH8e0     Following the October 7th barbaric attacks on Israel, Hezbollah, the Iranian proxy that sits on Israel’s northern border, had begun lobbing Katusha rockets, mortar rockets, drones, and anti-tank missiles on Israel’s northern border. The Israeli government has evacuated 43 communities from Israel’s north, leaving approximately 61,000 Israelis as “internally displaced refugees.” Many […]

https://youtu.be/DT2AEfEDLSg     As this is being written, the State Department is busy submitting plans for a Palestinian State, to be erected after the war. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan has spoken about a contiguous Palestinian state, stretching from Gaza through Judea and Samaria, (the West Bank). He has also spoken about a “revamped and […]

https://youtu.be/MeHdOuz6SGw     The relationship between Moscow and Jerusalem has gone through many permutations. The Kremlin had initially allied itself with Yasser Arafat and other revolutionary groups, and during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Russia allied itself with the Arab states, with some Sovietologists even arguing that Moscow had encouraged and escalated tensions helping to provoke […]

https://youtu.be/jfaVn8uuHK0     After the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust, many members of the international community have arrived at a single-factor conclusion of how to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, combined with grandiose plans of how to finally bring peace to the Middle East: the rewarding of this violence with […]

https://youtu.be/K6u1V8ks2vY     As all eyes have been set on Gaza, the Islamic Republic of Iran has not only been responsible for funding and training Hamas but the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Syria. In the meantime, experts from the Institute for Science and International Security, based on data from the International […]

Israeli diplomat Eitan Na’eh joins us for an in-depth discussion of the implications of the Israel/Hamas war on Israel’s relationships with the Abraham Accords countries and the Gulf nations more broadly including a potential normalization deal with Saudi Arabia. We will also discuss the impact of October 7th on Israel’s civil society and what it […]

  https://youtu.be/0pyfEsYWL6E     As the international perspective of the world has focused primarily on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, many have neglected to address the actual root cause of this war: The Islamic Republic of Iran. We know that Iran lacks the courage to directly engage itself in any conflict. Instead, it uses its […]

https://youtu.be/BLg8K-nTEfA     While much of the international community focuses its attention on the Israel/Hamas war and the Houthis disruption of maritime traffic in the Red Sea, the head of the snake that is terrorizing the world, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is being ignored at the world’s peril. In a recent Middle East Forum […]

  https://youtu.be/G8XV8BMIhQE     Israel has faced mounting pressure from the international community as well as from the Biden administration not to finish the job it has begun in Gaza. On Thursday, while speaking over the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Biden said that “an immediate ceasefire is necessary to protect innocent civilians.” An […]

https://youtu.be/dH6jSPftNtk <p data-pm-slice="1 1 About the Speaker: Behnam Ben Taleblu is a senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) where he focuses on Iranian security and political issues. Behnam previously served as a research fellow and senior Iran analyst at FDD. Prior to his time at FDD, Behnam worked on non-proliferation issues at an arms […]

https://youtu.be/aBfJnYyuzps     Join us for an insightful webinar exploring the evolving dynamics of the Middle East conflict and its geopolitical implications. In this engaging session, we will delve into the shifting landscape of regional confrontations, moving beyond the traditional Arab-Israeli paradigm to a broader Western versus Iranian blocs confrontation. The recent Israeli military operations […]

https://youtu.be/_-z8DSdX3aU     Since its founding, Israel has been fighting enemies who have continually sought its annihilation but today’s wars – military, cognitive, and diplomatic – are presenting an existential threat unlike anything it has confronted since perhaps 1973. While the Islamic Republic of Iran has unleashed not just proxies in the form of Hamas’ […]