US Supreme Court to Hear Two Cases Related to Holocaust Restitution
Although foreign governments usually cannot be sued in American courts, exceptions for acts of terrorism or acts of property confiscation violating international law have been made.
Will Biden Get the Message He was just Sent on Iran?
The assassination of Tehran’s top nuclear scientist is a reminder not so much of Israeli and Arab rejection of appeasement as it is of the deadly nature of the Iranian threat.
IDF Tactical Command College, ‘Israel’s West Point,’ Increasingly Shapes Ground Forces
Officers are put in simulated crises “where there are no good or bad decisions, only the least worst decisions to choose from under pressure and under uncomfortable conditions. This is based on the understanding that when they find themselves in the field, they will say, ‘Wait a second! I remember what this feels like,’ ” Col. Shahar Back tells JNS.
Hamas Laments Resumption of PA-IDF Security Coordination in the West Bank
Hamas is ideologically committed to taking over the West Bank as it did in Gaza, meaning that the PA’s security coordination with Israel is an act of self-preservation on Ramallah’s part.
Time to do Things Miraculously
An Israeli delegation in Ethiopia this week, headed by Ethiopian-born Minister of Aliyah and Absorption Pnina Tamano-Shata, is making arrangements to bring hundreds of Ethiopian Jews home with them.
The Prospective Return of Global Appeasement
In a knockdown fight between good and evil, liberal universalists split the difference and call that justice.
The Arab World is Embracing the New Middle East
Arab states’ readiness to publicly side with Israel against Tehran reflects a solid alliance rooted in realistic interests.
Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the ‘Mysterious’ Nuclear Scientist Killed Outside of Tehran?
He headed the “weaponization” group of Iran’s nuclear program, attended an underground nuclear-weapons test in North Korea in 2013 and was earmarked for the stage following a sufficient accumulation of uranium, a former senior Israeli military intelligence analyst tells JNS.
Justice (and Anti-Semitism) You Shall Pursue
The Democrats have agreed to redefine Judaism as progressivism and anti-Semitism as everything that isn’t progressive
Biden Team’s Blind Spot on Terror
President-elect Joe Biden’s first major foreign policy appointments are being hailed as centrists and experts.