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Gil SamsonovThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Some wars announce themselves at once. Others reveal their true meaning only after the smoke has spread from one front to another, after the funerals...
We are all watching—with a mix of astonishment and grief—what appears to be Europe’s slow-motion surrender to radical Islam. Like many of us,...
For years, we were fed the myth of the brilliant Iranian “chess master.” Commentators and analysts praised Tehran’s leaders as grandmasters of...
Political reputations are rarely permanent. In Israel especially, they tend to move in cycles — from admiration to rejection, from rejection to...
A week ago Saturday, the world entered a new era. With the elimination of the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, the long-simmering “shadow war”...
For the first time in decades, Israel is united not around a leader, not around a party, not around a reform — but around war. Not war as spectacle....