A Message for America: A Free Lebanon Is the Only Path to Truly Stopping Hezbollah
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Bill Goldberg
A U.S. Ultimatum for Qatar: Stop Sheltering Hamas
If Doha continues backing the terror group, it should be held accountable for American hostages’ deaths.
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Woke ‘ESG’ investors guilty of anti-Semitism as they target Israel
Israel boycotters have a new home for waging economic war against the world’s only Jewish state: environmental, social and governance ratings. Federal and state officials should respond by demanding...
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Will CEOs Finally Learn Their Lesson on Boycotting Israel?
Ben & Jerry’s’ Israel boycott melted away last month when its parent company, Unilever, settled a federal lawsuit brought by the company’s Israeli licensee, Avi Zinger. Unilever...
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Foil the Financiers of Iran’s Terrorism
The Biden administration believes Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a terrorist organization. So why lift sanctions on banks that help fund it?
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US rejoining UN Human Rights Council; what it should do first
Excerpt The United States on Thursday won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) beginning in January 2022, with the Biden administration vowing to prove it can reform the council from within....
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Beefed-Up Sanctions Could Limit the Damage in Afghanistan
The Taliban’s control of the government will significantly increase their wealth and influence.
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Iran must come clean on its nuclear deception
President Joe Biden’s Iran policy centers on the notion of “compliance for compliance” — if Iran returns to compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the United States will...
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How the U.S. Can Finally Cut Off Tehran’s Financial Oxygen
Blacklist the 14 Iranian banks that are still allowed to do business with foreign customers.
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President Trump Is Putting Huge Pressure on Europe to Reinstate Sanctions on Iran. He’s in for a Tou
“The stakes are huge,” said Richard Goldberg, who was lead Senate Republican negotiator for several rounds of Congressionally enacted sanctions that helped pressure Iran into...
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Trump Admin Pressured to Scold Qatar In Upcoming Oval Office Powwow
Trump administration allies and national security insiders have been voicing concerns about an upcoming meeting between President Trump and the Emir of Qatar, a chief terror financier in the regi...
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Trump’s Aggressive Rhetoric on Iran, a Change from Obama, May Backfire, experts say
President Donald Trump has been egging on Iranian protestors on Twitter, a staggering turnaround from his predecessor’s work to keep American fingerprints off of dissent in Iran—and h...
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‘Chickens—gate’ Is All About Obama Trying To Silence Israel
In remarks to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg last week, anonymous senior Obama administration officials ...
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Congress Can Defend Iran Sanctions Architecture, Provide Smart Relief After Final Deal
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A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
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Books: Stand-Outs in Their Field
IN his 1980 autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 1960s American Jewish counter-cultural revolutionary Abbie Hoffman – who participated i...
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Israel’s Not So Empty Threats
In September 2010, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a brilliant feature in the Atlantic in which he forecast Israel's "point of no return" on Iran — the article's ti...
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The Morality of Suicide Bombings
The bombing last week in Damascus that killed Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajiha, internal security chief Hafez Makhlouf, and Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat (who also happened to be the b...
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Israel’s Growing Isolation—and America’s Decreasing Regional Power
The Israeli press is still trying to figure out what to make of Robert Gates’s parting shot at Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
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Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?