Turkey must earn Trump’s reconciliation
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan feels he has reason to be optimistic. He was bracing for the election of Vice President Kamala Harris. In his estimation, that would have been...
Arkansas
State Laws on Israel Boycotts Hold Up in Court
The BDS movement hates these laws because they work.
Op-eds
Build Iron Dome in the United States To Prepare for Israel’s Worst Day
Israel is racing to build more Iron Dome air defense systems amid a growing threat of war with Hezbollah, which has a massive stockpile of more than 150,000 mortars, rockets, and missiles....
Op-eds
Extend the Pentagon’s ban on China’s consumer drones
The rest of the federal government—and state and local agencies and even private-sector infrastructure companies—should quit using this Chinese technology.
Op-eds
Sen. Cotton Legislation Seeks to Expedite Efforts to Strengthen Israel’s Security
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, introduced new legislation on Thursday to expedite Israel’s ability to operate its own KC-46 refueling aircraft in support...
Insights
U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group Authorization Provides Opportunity for Biden Administration
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which became law last week, includes a provision authorizing the establishment of a U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group (OTWG)....
Insights
America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?
In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...
Insights
Coming to America
Millions of people want to come to America. Actually, it’s tens of millions or perhaps hundreds of millions. Some Americans believe our borders should be open — that everyone has a &l...
Op-eds
The Parchin Precedent
Initially, I thought the news was beyond parody. The Associated Press last week ran a story headlined: “U.N. to let Iran inspect nuke work site.” I soon realized that this r...
Op-eds
The Parchin Precedent
Initially, I thought the news was beyond parody. The Associated Press last week ran a story headlined: “U.N. to let Iran inspect nuke work site.” I soon realized that this r...
Op-eds
Dr. Zarif or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian bomb
Tehran’s largest cemetery,...
Op-eds
Fait Pas Accompli
How bad is the nuclear deal the Obama administration is negotiating with Iran? The American public would not know the answer, had it not been for the speech tha...
Op-eds
The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change
All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere. It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...
Op-eds
The Challenges of Gun Control: Denying Firearms to Terrorists
Co-authored by Daniel Trombly Following several tragic mass shootings, the U.S. is embroiled in a debate about gun control. The central question for many involved in this d...
Op-eds
Should the Fort Hood Attack be Classified as an Act of Terrorism?
The question of whether the Fort Hood attack carried out by Nidal Hasan should be classified as an act of terrorism is in the news. As ABC News...
Op-eds
The Messages of Toulouse
Lone-wolf terrorists are a growing threat. Moderate Muslims are among those in the crosshairs.
Op-eds
Palestinian Statehood and Durban III are Both Designed to Delegitimize Israel
Co-authored by Anne Bayefsky Two United Nations-sponsored anti-Israel events will coalesce this week, which are largely — and mistakenly — being treated as separate...
Op-eds
US Official Explains National Counterterrorism Center’s View of The Enemy
In testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee yesterday, Michael Leiter provided an overview of how his National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) sees the terror...
Op-eds
The Homegrown Terror Threat
Homegrown terrorism has been much discussed on cable news channels and the op-ed pages of major newspapers in recent months. The attention is unsurprising. After all, 2009 saw more homegrown terr...
Op-eds
Najibullah Zazi: Genome of the Homegrown Jihadist
Najibullah Zazi is not just an "isolated extremist" caught in September 2009 while crossing a New York bridge with plans to bomb few tunnels -- end of the story. Zazi's "jihad" story is way...