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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.

The arrest of Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting head of the Muslim Brotherhood and commander of its military wing, following a years-long manhunt is a significant operational and intelligence success.
Everyone in Lebanon assumes the investigation into the catastrophe will ignore what is known to every child in the country: Hezbollah controls the port of Beirut.
Public outrage forces the Palestinian Authority to respond quickly after news of senior political appointments leaks via social media.
Israel must make it clear to Europe that negotiations are the only acceptable path toward Palestinian statehood.
Israel’s policy of breaking the linkage between the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and normalizing ties with the Arab world will help lead to full normalization.
Israel is attempting to limit the current military confrontation to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad front only—but it’s not the only one calling the shots.
Islamic State has announced the name of its new leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qarashi, but nobody knows who he is.
Through the use of “fake news” and with the assistance of Qatar and Turkey, the Muslim Brotherhood is once again successfully organizing demonstrations in Egypt.
P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas will go down in history as a corrupt dictator whose only achievement was fostering dissent within Palestinian society.
Israel must not fall asleep at the wheel; it needs, already at this stage, to warn the P.A. publicly that unilaterally ignoring the Oslo Accords’ division of the West Bank will lead to a harsh reaction.
The attack on Saudi blogger Mohammad Saud was the direct result of Jordanian and P.A. incitement against Saudi Arabia over warming relations with Israel.
While there is no proof Israel was behind last week’s attack on an Iraqi military base, its message was quite clear: The stationing in Iraq of Iranian ballistic missiles is unacceptable.