I attended a hard-hitting speech by Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Moshe Ya'alon--currently Israel's Minister of Strategic Affairs--at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy yesterday. Ya'alon, the former chief of staff for the Israeli Defense Forces, was the first senior official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government to address a U.S. audience, and he didn't disappoint. In his typical blunt, candid style, Ya'alon covered everything from the Iranian threat, to the controversy over Israeli settlements to the mainstream media's (and some Western governments') disconnect from reality regarding events in the Middle East. It's a tough neighborhood, to say the least, and no one understands how to deal with the various existential threats to Israel's security better than Ya'alon. Hopefully, the West is listening. You can watch my report from today's edition of the 700 Club on Lt. Gen. Ya'alon's speech by clicking
here.