What If?

While President Trump is muscling North Korea to give up nuclear ambitions, Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is doing an end-run around the ayatollahs in Tehran.
The Final Nail in the ACLU’s Coffin

The ACLU’s move from the neutral protector of civil liberties to a partisan advocate of hard-left politics is both a symptom and consequence of it’s changes.
Who Sanctions Russia? Not Germany

President Trump is taking flak for having introduced a subject to the G-7 meeting that our European friends wanted to keep under the table. Russia.
Will The Middle East Be Trump’s Next Peace Deal?

The Trump-Kim summit generated a renewed sense of hope along with questions about the future.
The Israeli Right’s Campaign Against Israel

How can anyone complain about the Palestinian Authority, when Israel is single handedly thwarting the chance for a separation? Creating one state serves Hamas and the BDS movement, not the Zionist vision. That’s the problem that is making more and more Jews and friends despair.
Italy: “The Party is Over” for Illegal Migrants

Italy’s new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has vowed to cut aid money for migrants and to deport those who illegally are in the country.
Iranian Blood Money, Palestinian Blood

Why is Gaza erupting now, aiming rockets far from the area where it tried to kidnap soldiers and break through the fence?
Contact Populist Government Takes Power in Italy

“Populism is the new organizing principle.”
Making the Iranians Mad

These are all examples of Iranian behavior that undermine the peace and security of the Middle East and the wider world.  And if none is okay, why pretend not to notice them?  In the interest of not irritating the mullahs?
The US, Morocco and Iran’s North African Expansion

Iran’s response to President Donald Trump’s May 8 announcement that he was withdrawing the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal, has been striking.