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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.

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.
An unbending Israeli policy in eastern Jerusalem will show the Palestinians and Jordan that the Jewish State is determined to exercise its sovereignty over all parts of the city.
The Palestinian Authority’s political weakness and lack of leadership regarding the U.S. peace plan demonstrate the degree to which corruption and the P.A.’s financial crisis have undermined its authority.
The U.S. senior presidential adviser simply stated what many Arab leaders, all too familiar with Abbas’s decadent, corrupt government, believe but do not dare say.
Hamas is reportedly worried about the sophisticated methods used by Israel to recruit agents and collaborators in the Gaza Strip, without the agents even knowing they’ve been recruited.
The Gulf states no longer fear normalization with Israel, and are promoting it in a slow process in tandem with the crafting of President Trump’s “deal of the century.”
Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas’s stubbornness forces the Palestinians to get used to any new situation imposed upon them by the Trump administration and Israel.