Russia
Both sides have too much to lose.
Assad’s hollow crown.
Iran is a de-facto caliphate.
The young are growing more pro-Russia.
Whether or not it intends to.
America’s policy is not yet clear, but Israel’s is.
President Sisi returned to Cairo with little to show besides a big hug.
Assad will stay, but will Iran remain supreme?
Things now under control could spin out of control.
Even as we celebrate the great advances of post-Soviet Jewish communities, we need to remain vigilant.
Seven decades of persevering, clandestine, hazardous activity devoted to the material and spiritual succor of Jews.
An airstrike against Hizballah triggers Syrian missiles and Russian ire.
In modern European history, Vladimir Putin is the first classically reactionary and even revanchist leader who is not, or at least not yet, an anti-Semite.