Relations with Europe will Improve Once Israel Exports Natural Gas

British historian Edward Hallett Carr is generally known by international relations students as a theoretician who advocated realism in foreign policy.
In Our Neck of the Woods, Actions Speak Louder than Words

Analysis of the events that occurred over the last few years in the Middle East.
A New Age of Middle East Insecurity

Back in 2010, I interviewed Gerard Araud, who is now the French ambassador in Washington, DC.
The Kobani Precedent

Recently, I attempted to undertake a reporting trip into the Kurdish Kobani enclave in northern Syria.
Obama, Not Netanyahu, is Killing the Two-State Solution

President Barack Obama is correct. There is no realistic prospect of a Palestinian state being created through a diplomatic process for the foreseeable future.
France Declares War on Radical Islam

The moves are part of a raft of new anti-terrorism measures aimed at preventing French citizens or residents from joining jihadist groups abroad.
Islam Bulldozes the Past

The recent bulldozing by ISIS of the ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra, and Korsabad, is just the latest round of assaults across the large area under its control.
Four Rival Factions Pick Over Syria’s Bones

What used to be Syria is now a war-torn land divided between four factions, including ISIS.
Israeli Military Intelligence Head: Syrian Border “50 Shades of Black”

IDF Major General Hertzi Halevi stated that Israeli must be “prepared” for new conflicts along its northern border with Syria, whose internal violence he described as “50 shades of black.”
ISIS Executes Suspected Mossad Spy

ISIS released a new video on Tuesday which shows a child executing an East Jerusalem Arab who the radical terror group accused of being a Mossad spy.