President Trump just returned from his first overseas trip of his second term. Where a president chooses to visit first is a signal of his priorities. Interestingly, Trump did not visit Israel, even though he was in the region.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s decision to visit Saudi Arabia rather than Iran for his first official trip abroad represents a seismic shift in the Middle East’s geopolitical balance of power.
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) recent decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza is an underhanded effort to prevent the Jewish state from defending itself against Islamic terrorism.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently called for the creation of a coalition of Islamic countries to fight what he described as “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel.
More than a dozen Palestinian factions—including bitter rivals Fatah and Hamas—recently signed a national unity deal aimed at maintaining Palestinian control over the Gaza Strip after the war with Israel ends.
The Biden administration’s decision to cut off weapons supplies to Israel during the war in Gaza has raised concerns that the Jewish state is overly dependent on the United States for its security.
Iran is stirring up anti-government sentiment in Jordan, with the goal of toppling King Abdullah II and replacing his regime with one led by Hamas.
Soeren Kern, a geopolitical analyst and writing fellow for Middle East Forum joins us on The Christian Worldview to explain what is going on in the Middle East and how it’s related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s sabre-rattling against Taiwan.
Hamas’s October 7 massacre of more than a thousand Israelis, and Israel’s forceful military response to the slaughter, has revived international calls for a so-called two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have declared war on Israel, launched a barrage of long-range missiles and attack drones at the Jewish state, and hijacked Israeli-linked cargo ships in the Red Sea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s robust support for Hamas after its October massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis has shattered long-standing illusions that Russia is a friend of Israel.
Critics are accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of succumbing to extortion in its recent decision to give the Islamic Republic of Iran access to some $6 billion in frozen assets in exchange for the release of five Americans wrongfully held in Iranian prisons.
