Between the US & North Korea: The Multiple Perils of “Escalation Dominance”

US President Trump’s more expressly confrontational policy toward North Korea will require prudent calculations during any process of escalation. The core task will demand “escalation dominance” without triggering a nuclear exchange.
Punishment as a Foreign Policy

The goal of American foreign policy should be to make our friends more secure and our adversaries less secure.
Kriyat Yam Suf: Jumping Into Deep Waters

We are in desperate need of people like him to avert our drowning in the very sea from which he saved our forefathers.
Palestinians’ Real Enemies: Arabs

The Arab heads of state and monarchs do not like to be reminded of how badly they treat Palestinians and subject them to discriminatory and apartheid laws.
Antisemitism: Out of Hibernation and Traveling at Warp Speed

No being has more institutional governmental authority than the God of Israel. And He has issued the decree:
General Mattis and the Fatah Tautology

And the first reality that will become clear to them is that despite the Fatah tautology, Fatah is a terrorist organization, and an extremist one at that.
Bubbles

There are both big and little issues in politics, and they compete to determine what we think and how we vote.
Shifting Sands in the Middle East

One thing Christian Zionists have learned in the last few years (along with everyone else, of course) is that political winds can change direction on a dime.
The Perverse Politicization of Passover

I dare say that such warped thinking is little more than intellectual hametz, and should be avoided on Passover at all costs.
The Democrat’s Over-Reaction to Spicer’s Mistake

The partisan overreaction to Spicer’s mistake dishonored the memory of the six million.