As an elected official with many family members living in Israel, I’m occasionally asked by family members, friends, constituents – and especially my fellow Israeli-Americans or Jewish-Americans with close ties to Israel – why I don’t support Donald Trump. I hear comments about Trump deserving Jewish and Israeli-American support because …

The IDF struck the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night in response to a rocket fired previously from the coastal enclave into Israeli territory. According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the military struck an underground tunnel belonging to Hamas at the southern Gaza Strip.

“We have been spiraling deep down the rabbit hole since the Syrian civil war started in 2011,” a senior bureaucrat working for the security establishment told Al-Monitor. “We tried to mend bridges with Saudi Arabia, hoping to isolate Abu Dhabi — hoping that when the embargo against Qatar ends, we …