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Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch

Hillel Frisch is a professor of political studies and Middle East studies at Bar-Ilan University and an expert on the Arab world at The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.

In conjunction with radical Arab Knesset members, leftist Israeli politicians focus on settler violence when the real issue is Palestinian violence, organized from the apex of the P.A. on down.
Will the Israel’s new leaders Bennett and Lapid take this to heart, or will Israelis pay the cost?
Gaza residents do not like being human shields and are tired of bearing the brunt of fighting that gets them no closer to “liberating” Jerusalem.
The foremost and most pressing issue confronting Israel after the latest Gaza war is the tens of thousands of illegal weapons held by the country’s Arab citizens, especially criminal gangs.
It took only hours for Israel’s conciliatory moves during Jerusalem Day to trigger mass rioting by Israeli Arabs and an avalanche of rockets and missiles from the Gaza Strip.
Ankara is beginning to recognize the folly of its imperialist foreign policy. Will the new U.S. administration?
That organizations like Al-Haq, Addameer and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights totally ignore the plight of Palestinian Christians reveals their true nature.
This is a historic game-changer in the 100-year-old conflict that requires an immediate and massive Israeli response.
In 2013, Mahmoud Abbas proclaimed the Palestinian Authority to be the “State of Palestine.” How successful he has been in popularizing the phrase and among whom?
Hopefully, the new administration will focus on a renewed commitment to counter the outright discrimination many international institutions, and the member states within them, display toward the Jewish state.
Far from needing to appease the European Union on Iran to cement the trans-Atlantic alliance, the United States should press the Europeans to increase their military spending to merit the close relationship.
Hamas and 11 other terrorist organizations recently conducted a joint “defensive” exercise, but the terrorist group stresses that it remains committed to “liberating Palestine.”