In the Mideast, Trump Gives Reality a Chance
A lot of people are in a funk over President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The liberal media, most former government officials who’ve dealt with t...
Diplomacy
Taking the Iran Deal Disaster Seriously
The best approach to Iran in the wake of President Obama’s deal is to recognize the complex nature of the problem, and the absolute need for a well-considered and comprehensive approach. Th...
Op-eds
If All Else Fails, Blame The Israelis
An eleventh-hour Turkish lawfare initiative may prevent Ankara's long-awaited rapprochement with Israel. Days shy of the four-year anniversary of the 2010 Mavi Marmara raid, the Istanbul Hig...
Op-eds
Iran and Diplomacy vs. Engagement
‘Iran’s rulers are not open to engagement no matter what mix of carrots and sticks are offered.” Peter Beinart, a contributing editor of The Atlantic, attributed that r...
Op-eds
How A Weak Iran Deal Makes Us All Less Safe and War More Likely
The debate over whether Israel would launch an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities to blunt Tehran’s nuclear ambitions has always loomed large in the mind of Western policymakers...
Op-eds
U.S. Pastor Protests in Iran for Release of Christians
While Iran apologists in the U.S and Europe continue to praise the Islamic Republic’s “moderate” president Hassan Rouhani, a retired California pastor, Eddie Romero, snuck into...
Op-eds
Taliban Opens Office in Zahedan, Iran
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iranian government is expanding its t...
Op-eds
The Syrian Conundrum
To intervene or stand by: it’s a classic no-win situation.
Op-eds
Saving Syria from Kofi Annan
Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:...
Op-eds
Yale’s Capitulation
In early June, Yale University pulled the plug on the first U.S.-based academic center devoted to the study of modern anti-Semitism, including the growing phenomenon of Islamic animated hatred of...
Op-eds
UN Fauxcilitation of the Israel-Hezbollah Swap
As if today’s swap of the bodies of kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldiers for live Lebanese terrorists were not sickening enough, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon...