Abraham

May 13, 2024 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Looming Crisis

The new normal for Iran and its proxies in creating provocations and America’s insistence on responding to them by putting up a stronger defensive line, means that deterrence is eroding, not improving. For now, the much-feared escalation in the region is contained. Yet the calm may be brief and illusory. Tracing back the Biden doctrine is crucial to grasp this widening insecurity.

February 5, 2024 | Boaz Golany, Jacob Nagel

US presence in the Middle East at a critical junction

The United States has provided a critical military presence in the region throughout the decades.

May 24, 2023 | Mark Dubowitz, Tzvi Kahn

High time for a ‘Hajj Express’ for Israeli Muslims

With the Hajj being only a month away, Saudi Arabia has a chance to take the high road with Israeli Muslims and sidestep the obstacles in their efforts to normalize relations. Riyadh is hereby called upon,...

April 10, 2023 | Enia Krivine, Shannon Walsh

Members of the Clergy Politicize Holy Week in the Holy Land

Christians are flourishing in Israel, yet before Easter, some members of the clergy exploited the period of heightened religious emotion to level false accusations of systemic oppression against Israel. Meanwhile, others spread conspiracy theories that mirror the blood libel sermons taught about the Jews during Holy Week in previous centuries.

November 4, 2022 | Liel Leibovitz, Tony Badran

Bibi Wins!

Israel’s political iron man inherits a hatful of tsuris

December 1, 2020 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The End of Arab Nationalism

How the Abraham Accords put the final nail in the coffin of a bad idea.

September 15, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Temple Mount Violence Yet Again

There were clashes on the Jerusalem Temple Mount in the runup to Rosh Hashanah, and I blame Moshe Dayan. He was the prematurely politically correct Israeli Defense Minister who, in 1967, couldn&r...

April 18, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Christians for Palestine

For most American Jews and Israelis, evangelical Christians are synonymous with zealous, biblically inspired support of the Jewish state—so zealous, in fact, that it makes some Jews uneasy....

February 12, 2012 | |

3,000 Years of Mass Murder: Jerusalem’s Bloody History, and How It Shaped Us All

Seen by tourists, Jerusalem is a city of wonders. Seen by historians, it is a city of agonies. Reading through the 3,000-year chronology presented in Simon Sebag Montefiore’s newly...

September 27, 2010 | Reuel Marc Gerecht Weekly Standard |

A ‘Perfect Man’ at the U.N.

After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speeches, press conferences, and interviews in New York City last week, it's obvious the Iranian president lives in a parallel universe. This has been diffic...

August 11, 2010 |

What Is Moderate Islam?

Is the “Ground Zero Imam,” Feisal Abd ar-Rauf, a moderate Muslim? I do not know. I have yet to read his books or peruse his speeches and sermons in all the languages that Mr. Rauf use...

June 7, 2006 | World Defense Review |

Faith-Based Realpolitik

Notwithstanding that it is arguably one of the strangest documents in the annals of modern diplomacy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent 18-page letter to President George W. Bus...

September 18, 2005 |

Don’t Apologize, Governor Romney!

Monitoring radical mosques is exactly what we should be doing.