ISRAEL'S ECONOMY
ISRAEL'S ECONOMY AMID THE JUDICIAL REFORM
"The Israeli government is priding themselves on a few strong trees in the middle of an economic wildfire...and no reassurance from them is simply pouring fuel on the fire."
2023
SAUDI-ISRAEL TALKS
SAUDI ENVOY WANTS ISRAEL 'INTEGRATED' INTO REGION
"We have heard this countless times not just from the Americans - but everyone is on the same page that a prosperous Middle East only comes with benefits."
2023
META'S STANDARDS
META OKAYS 'DEATH TO' IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER POSTS
"Doomed if you do and doomed if you don't. There is an incredibly thin line that they have here in order to prevent violent speech vs. allowing freedom of speech."
2023
CHINA-RUSSIA TIES
BEIJING FEARS RUSSIA BECOMING A 'MINOR POWER'
"What has been made pretty clear is that it would appear that Xi Jinping and China as a whole are writing the sequel to the book How to Win Friends and Influence People."
2023
NSO SPYWARE
REPORT: U.S. INTEL OFFICIALS BACKED NSO PURCHASE
"The U.S. Intelligence Agency went behind the Biden Administration's back as NSO was blacklisted by the U.S. which forbids any American firm to do business with them."
2022
RUSSIANS PROTEST
RUSSIA ARRESTS DOZENS AS CALL-UP SPARKS PROTESTS
"The Russian authorities are very quick to stifle any critical voices. A lot of the time when you do have rallies against Vladimir Putin the crackdown is almost immediate."
2022
SOUTH AFRICA RIOTS
RIOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER JACOB ZUMA JAILED
"If you are not protesting peacefully, and it now goes beyond the point where you are stealing, ransacking, and looting stores - you are in fact a criminal."
2021
LIFE SUPPORT LAWS
BRITISH PARENTS PLEAD FOR ILL CHILD'S LIFE
"The thinking behind moving her from the UK to Israel is that they would be able to prolong her life instead of in Britain where her condition was deemed irreversible."
2021
ISRAEL-U.S. TIES
ISRAELI PRESIDENT TO VISIT U.S. AMID TENSIONS
"This is going to be an opportunity for Joe Biden...to address concerns over Israel with a less intense figure - which in this case is the president - Isaac Herzog."
2023
HARDLINER BEN GVIR
COALITION SAYS BEN GVIR TO BLAME IF GOV'T FALLS
"A new demand on top of an old one...it's interesting that his partner and other half of the power couple, Bezalel Smotrich, is calling him out - especially as they ran on a joint ticket."
2023
CHAD EMBASSY
CHAD'S PRESIDENT MAKES FIRST EVER ISRAEL VISIT
"There may not have been diplomatic or official relations since they cut ties in 1972 but there were definitely informal relations going on behind the scenes."
2023
BRITISH EMBASSY
UK WEIGHS RELOCATING EMBASSY TO JERUSALEM
"When the UK was part of the EU, it was locked into how many deals it could make. Now that it is its own entity and sovereign it's expanding its trade relations."
2022
JAILED GEOLOGIST
BRITISH GEOLOGIST JAILED IN IRAQ FOR 'SMUGGLING'
"The law in Iraq is very strict with this and could even impel the death penalty. It seems that the geologist's 15-year jail time is actually a courtesy sentence in this case."
2022
COVID-19 VARIANT
“DELTA PLUS” VARIANT MUTATION IDENTIFIED
"This variant has two very big abilities. One: it has the ability to break through a person's immune system. Two: it has the ability to bypass the vaccines. Both are a major concern."
2021
BIDEN IN THE UK
PRESIDENT BIDEN IN BRITAIN ON FIRST FOREIGN TRIP
"It seems that Biden is going back to keeping by the book like previous U.S. Presidents by making that first trip to the UK and Europe in order to shore up alliances and solidarity."
2021
IRAN'S NUKE BREACH
IRAN UPS URANIUM ENRICHMENT AFTER NATANZ BLAST
"It is normally the U.S. and Iran that conduct tit-for-tat moves. Now we've got the European powers getting involved, saying hang on a second something is not right here."