Game on: The New Strategy of the US and its Allies in the Middle East

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s outlining of 12 conditions that Iran would need to meet in order to make possible a new nuclear deal amounts to a call for the wholesale reversal of Iranian regional strategy. The conditions stated are not only, or primarily, concerned with the nuclear program.
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.
Israel Has Nothing to Fear from Trump’s Plan?

I admire Tobin as an analyst and agree with him that Trump’s ultimate goal is to forge an Israeli-Arab coalition against Iran.
Heeding Democratic Warnings

Democratic and Republican supporters of Israel will certainly support our efforts.
Angels in the Sky Over Israel

When I read about Mitchell, Jewish and Israeli newspapers were filled with accounts of his life in obituaries that heaped praise on his heroism, and that of others like him.
Pompeo Presents the Trump Doctrine

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech Monday at the Heritage Foundation marked a pivotal moment in U.S. foreign policy.
What Memorial Day Means

Each year I try to think of how to depict Memorial Day in Israel in a way that’s meaningful and juxtapose it in relation to how it’s observed in the US. Many thoughts race through my head. And each year I see Memorial Day through a different prism.
Endgame for the U.S. -Turkey Relationship

On Monday, NATO ally Turkey withdrew its ambassador from Washington. The severe step is meant to punish the U.S. for opening an embassy in Jerusalem on Monday.
The Hague

There are myriad ways in which the Palestinian “leadership” works its evil regarding the conflict with Israel.
The Jerusalem Embassy and the Triumph of Truth

Monday’s ceremony marking the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, Israel, had a clear message: It is time to embrace truth.