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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.

Moving on to the final stage of the hostage agreement will validate the path of jihad among Palestinians and the wider Muslim world, replenish Hamas’s leadership structure and impose significant long-term military and economic costs on Israel.
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.”
Contrary to the views of Israel’s many detractors, the growing indifference of the wider Arab world to the Palestinian issue is a long-term phenomenon.
The Palestinians have not operated against Israel as a united force since 2007, and now the threat of a Hamas boycott of P.A. goods might be deepening the divide.
The events surrounding the recent constitutional referendum in Algeria reflect broader trends in the region.