Following Iran’s thwarted April 13th offensive, the ball is now in Israel’s court. Jerusalem’s inevitable response will be tailored to ensure one thing: that a new, dangerous status quo isn’t created in the region. My latest for National Interest

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BREAKING: The Leaked Top-Secret Letter of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

**April 15th - The launching of an economic blockade across four continents in solidarity with Palestinians.**
- Inciting destruction to society and promoting the…

Tell me you are scared of conflict without telling me you are scared of conflict. Not a good look, Team Biden.

Precisely right.

Totally, completely plausible.

Oh, right. There’s that.

And the single worst take of the current news cycle goes to…

Guess who’s up for reelection this cycle?

This. Exactly.

Pretty much.

So much for that Iranian-Saudi normalization deal, I guess. Riyadh understands the real stakes here.

Bro, read the room.

This is a useful reminder. The Islamic Republic and the Iranian people are NOT one and the same.

No doubt precisely as the ayatollahs intended.

A useful reminder that, whatever their differences, Israel and the Arab states share a common enemy -- and everyone involved knows it.

Correction: a state of war has existed for a long time. Iran has simply stopped pretending otherwise.

Six months after 10/7, a sea change is taking place in Israeli security, informed by the miscalculations that made the horrors of Oct. 7th possible in the first place. I examine the shift, in my latest for the National Institute for Public Policy.

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A perfectly reasonable question.

He seems super nice. And not at all completely delusional.

Oh, good. I knew we were missing something in 2024.