Why Hamas may now accept the deal it previously rejected Anti-Hamas demonstrations have emerged in recent weeks, fueled by frustration over the war, economic hardship and repression. Julio Messer March 29, 2025
Kol hakavod to the IAF In under 24 hours, the Israeli Air Force attacked military targets in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran. Julio Messer Oct. 28, 2024
A strategic alliance against COVID-19 Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accomplished far more than securing millions of mRNA vaccine doses. Julio Messer Aug. 2, 2021
A cult of personality-destruction History may record that those who claimed Netanyahu turned the Likud Party into a “cult of personality” were the ones who benefited from a “cult of personality destruction” in order to unseat him. Julio Messer June 10, 2021
Sanity in the Middle East President Donald Trump and the leaders of several so-called “moderate Sunni countries” have finally understood three crucial points that Benjamin Netanyahu had been emphasizing for a long time. Julio Messer Sept. 16, 2020
A reply to the honorable Prime Minister Boris Johnson The major contribution of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan is the message it sends to the Palestinians that time is no longer on their side. Julio Messer July 14, 2020
The Allon Plan: Then and now With some slight changes, President Donald Trump resuscitated the original plan for parts of the West Bank put forth by left-wing Israeli party member Yigal Allon and gave it the imprimatur of the U.S. government. Julio Messer July 1, 2020
Daniel Pipes’s ‘Don’t annex’ advice Until now, it had been most unusual for arguments by the president of the Middle East Forum to be so easily brushed aside. Julio Messer May 11, 2020