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Yoni Ben Menachem

Yoni Ben Menachem, a veteran Arab affairs and diplomatic commentator for Israel Radio and Television, is a senior Middle East analyst for the Jerusalem Center. He served as director general and chief editor of the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

Not wishing to anger either Russian President Vladimir Putin or the Biden administration, the P.A. and Hamas have so far refrained from taking official positions on Ukraine.
Israel should be wary of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who, as we have seen in the past, can turn on Israel at any moment.
If the P.A. does not quickly contain the growing anarchy in Jenin, the IDF will be forced to “clean up” the area, say senior Israeli security officials.
Israeli security officials say that the Syrian president is taking a risk by allowing Iran and Hezbollah to continue their military build-up in his country, and that Israel will continue to fight the phenomenon with all its might.
Israel must expose Hamas’s covert military activity in Lebanon and hold the Lebanese government responsible for any hostile action against Israel.
As Israel girds for what appears to be a fresh wave of spontaneous attacks, some Palestinians are beginning to accuse their leaders of losing control.
This decision by the British government helps Israel politically, and also poses a serious financial difficulty for Hamas.
With popular anger increasing and having reached an impasse with the U.S. administration, P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas is now making a show of appealing to Russia to reinvigorate the “Quartet.”
The ball is now in the U.S. court: Failure to respond militarily to the attack on the U.S. military base in Tanf will be interpreted as weakness and will invite further Iranian attacks.
Reeling from the imprisonment in the kingdom of more than 60 of its operatives, the terror group is trying to secure their release via Arab and Muslim diplomatic pressure.
It appears that Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls” did not deter the terrorist group, which is again threatening violence in an attempt to alter the status quo in Jerusalem.
In the latest move in its cat-and-mouse game with Israel, the Palestinian Authority has decided to distribute its “pay for slay” funds through its postal banks.