Hillel Frisch
ARTICLES BY: Hillel Frisch
US-European Ties Should Not Be a Factor in Dealing With Iran
While in the US, President Joe Biden’s inauguration ushered in widespread joy among his supporters and dismay among his detractors, among the allies of the...
Hamas’ Maneuvers Are Defensive — for Now
The recent military exercise in Gaza by a joint command composed of 12 terrorist organizations, led and authorized by Hamas, lays bare the fallacy that...
After the Abraham Accords, the Palestinians Have Lost the Arab Street
While the Algerian FLN lost its bloody struggle against the French army and settlers (during which it killed more Algerian collaborators than Frenchmen), it won...
After Political Partition Between the PA and Hamas’ Gaza, Now There Is an Economic Boycott
Since time immemorial, preventing hostile alliances and dividing the ranks of enemies have been the objectives of small states in dangerous environments. Israel, whether by...
In Jordan’s 2020 Parliamentary Elections, the King Won Hands Down
Few political outcomes have shamed the prophecies of security officials, political scientists, and commentators more than the persistence of the Jordanian Hashemite kingdom. During the 1950s,...
The Response to the Fakhrizadeh Killing Shows the Iranian Regime’s Isolation From Its People
The killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh put on display the greatest danger threatening the Iranian regime: its isolation from its own citizenry....
Algeria’s Referendum: Stirrings of Democracy and the Decline of Islamism
Algeria is physically distant from Israel and not uppermost in Israeli minds. The last headlines featuring Algeria in the Israeli press appeared decades ago, when...
Normalizing With Cairo Rather Than Riyadh Could Be a Major Achievement
It has become almost a mantra that the prime objective of the Abraham Accords is a peace agreement between Saudi Arabia and Israel. This overlooks...
The Real Palestinian Pandemic: Political Sclerosis
To be effective, politics requires leadership and organization -- and to be effective over the long term, changes in leadership and organizational renewal are also...
The EU’s Hypocrisy on Housing Demolitions in Israel
Entering the phrase “housing demolitions” in the EU’s official site yields a shocking result: 18 of the first documents to appear concern Israeli demolitions of...
The Palestinians Have Been Lying For Years. Can They Still Get Away With It?
The Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels unfortunately proved to the world that it is possible to lie in several contradictory directions at once: for example,...
The Israel-UAE Agreement’s Greatest Achievement: Little Arab Protest
Lively analysis has taken place over the possible ramifications of the Israel-UAE peace agreement. Some have rightly noted that while this is the third peace...
Lebanon’s Lessons for Israel
How many Lebanons are there? This has been a question ever since the French Mandate in 1920. It was repeatedly raised after Lebanon’s independence in 1943,...
The Fading Memory of Soleimani Exposes Iran’s Sclerotic Regime
The extent to which Qassem Soleimani’s spectacular demise at the hands of the Americans affected Iran’s ability to harm the US and its allies is...
