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David Isaac

Explore Senior Israel Correspondent David Isaac’s expert analysis on Jewish history, politics, and current events at JNS.

Pro-Israel NGOs are sounding the alarm regarding what they say is a “revolving-door” policy whereby Israel withholds P.A. terror funding with one hand but then gives it back with the other.
“It would appear that Iran has already passed the threshold of diminished value of even the narrow, short-term restrictions that were contained in the JCPOA,” expert tells JNS.
City residents are frustrated by what they say is the municipality’s lack of action regarding repeated instances of gunfire in and from the nearby Palestinian town.
Palestinian propaganda aside, the real issue is that the IDF has for the past two years trusted P.A. security forces to keep terror in check in northern Samaria, which has resulted in Jenin becoming a “mini-Gaza,” experts tell JNS.
Even as Moscow threatens to force the “dissolution” of Jewish Agency operations, experts urge Jerusalem to resolve the issue through “secret diplomacy based on common interests.”
“There was a certain duality between the way the decision was presented by the spokespeople as a pro-nationalist decision when it was actually in practice clearly anti-nationalist, negating national interests and values,” says Menashe S. Yado, an attorney for Honenu, who represented bereaved families in the case.
Israel is clearly concerned that Russia’s criticism could move from rhetoric to action.
After a top Iranian official claims Tehran already has the ability to build an atomic bomb, analysts tell JNS that “technologically speaking, they are very, very close.”
“These two camps are in a very bitter and bloody competition for hegemony and influence in the region,” said Kobi Michael, a senior research fellow at Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies.
“As long as the Lebanese government is hostage to Hezbollah, there’s very little that ... outside countries can do,” say Israeli scholars.
The limitations placed on transitional governments are not based in law but rather based on the personal—and biased—views of an unelected legal fraternity, experts say.
Experts say new prime minister must deal with Iran, Israeli-Arab violence and education, continue successful security policies.