Iran israel war

Small State Strategy: Is Israel a Blueprint or an Outlier?

From the Iron Swords War to the confrontation with Iran, Israel demonstrates how a small state can strategically influence great power behavior, but is it replicable?

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WORKERS MAINTAIN power generation transformers in the Al-Kiswah area of the Damascus countryside, in Syria, May 26.

Voices from the Arab press: Damascus between the Druze, Alawites, and Kurds

 Israeli fire fighter operating at the scene of the Iranian missile attack on Soroka Hospital, Beersheba, June 18, 2025.

Iran's use of cluster bombs against Israel violated humanitarian law, Amnesty Int'l says

A Pakistan Ranger stands guard at the Pakistan-India joint check post at Wagah border, near Lahore, Pakistan, May 14, 2025.

Strategic narratives and AI warfare: between Israel-Iran and India-Pakistan crises


A month after the Iran war, what are the technological lessons learned?

What should Israel expect in a future war with Iran?

 Iranian flags fly as fire and smoke from an Israeli attack on Sharan Oil depot rise, following Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025.

Masa participants are volunteering through the storm, embracing Israel at its hardest moments

From ambulance shifts to bomb shelters, Jewish young adults from around the world are choosing to serve and stay in Israel in times of war.

 Masa brings approximately 10,000 young Jewish adults to Israel annually.

Voting with their feet: These are the most popular vacation destinations after the war with Iran

After Operation Rising Lion, the number of Israelis flying abroad doubled. Popular destinations shifted as hostile countries dropped off the list. Travel is nearing pre-Sword of Iron war levels.

 Ben Gurion Airport

Tank explosion kills three soldiers in north Gaza, IDF soldier takes own life on northern base

Degel Hatorah announces exit from gov't • EU sees some good signs on Gaza aid but more needed • Israel submits third map for ceasefire negotiations

 IDF soldiers operating throughout the Gaza Strip, July 9, 2025.

A New Dawn for Israel’s War Orphans

Sunflowers Opens Five Healing Centers in the South

 Group session at one of the Sunflowers centers

Israel accomplished 'revolutions' in drone and air defense systems during Iran War

The number of drone flight hours connected with the Iran War was six times longer than the normal amount of hours for an entire standard year.

 Israeli air defense systems operating during the war with Iran.

Preemptive strikes against Iran are self-defense - opinion

In the laws and ethics of war, a country need not be attacked first in order to defend itself.

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Argentina’s President Javier Milei in Jerusalem last month, days before the Israeli strike on Iran. Milei was among the very few world leaders who publicly supported the strikes on Iran’s nukes, says the writer.

Jewish unity is no longer optional - opinion

Do we want to keep pouring energy into internal feuds? Now is the moment to build bridges – within Israel, between Israel and the Diaspora, and across our global Jewish communities.

 THE BORDER area with the Gaza Strip, last week: No army, no matter how brave, can win the long war if the people behind them are at war with themselves, the writer states.

From nuclear threat to harmless kittens: Israeli rescues adopt names of US-struck facilities

Read how one American-Israeli saved three kittens under fire from Iranian rockets.

Kittens Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan seen over an illustrative background of US-struck Iranian nuclear sites.

US, Iran have a long road to a nuclear deal - analysis

Trump appears to be asserting that the US strikes on Iran have destroyed the Iranian nuclear program, making it less urgent for the US to reach a deal.

 L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

When war breaks out, so do messages from friends of years past - comment

It's nice to know that someone out there is thinking about you and wishing you well.

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