Can Hamas recruit more terrorists amid surmounting losses in Gaza?
New details about Hamas UNRWA members tell us a lot about the demographics of Hamas men; however, it also leaves many known unknowns
Donald Rumsfeld
Lessons from the Philippines: Irregular Warfare in Action
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the world watched as the United States began a punitive expedition to Afghanistan to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, oust the Taliban, and prevent the use of Afghanistan...
Op-eds
How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites
Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...
Op-eds
Covid-19 Management and Decision-Making in Israel
There is an old joke that if you put three Israelis in a room, you will get more than ten opinions. Due to social distancing, this is currently impossible. But the Israelis still have more than ten opinions...
Insights
How to Win Friends and Wage Jihad
Understanding al Qaeda’s Pragmatism
Op-eds
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
Qatar Needs to Do Its Part
An important goal of President Donald Trump’s meetings with Arab and Islamic leaders this past weekend was to encourage them to shoulder more of the burden in defending our common interests...
Op-eds
The Chilcot Report
The Chilcot report on the Iraq war ought to elicit two emotions: sympathy and pity for former British prime minister Tony Blair. As was evident by late 2002, when Europeans saw the fri...
Op-eds
RIP Tom O’Connell
Tom O’Connell, Col. Tom O’Connell that is, died last night of a “massive heart attack” in his bed. He was my best friend and my personal hero. He did so many incredibly br...
Op-eds
An Iraqi Abroad
Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, my friend Ahmad Chalabi would often carry fat tomes about America’s occupations of Germany and Japan. An Iraqi exile after 1958 who lived mainly in Lond...
Op-eds
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: A Troika of Realists
There was once a different Iran. At its helm was not a mullah but a monarch — secular, allied with the West, and committed to his country’s development and modernization. In a new boo...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Big Year
Any way you measure it, 2013 was a good year for al Qaeda. It wasn’t supposed to be. Shortly after the United States killed the group’s charismatic leader, Osama bin Laden, a couple o...
Op-eds
How Obama is Letting Iran Win in Syria
The U.N.–Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, resigned his post yesterday, singling out the U.N. Security...
Op-eds
What Condi Says About Romney
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
Op-eds
Lose LOST
The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.
Op-eds
Leaks and Lies
I once had a long discussion about leaks with Richard Helms, a thoughtful gentleman who steadfastly refused to reveal state secrets even when threatened with imprisonment. Helms was directo...
Op-eds
Criticizing Netanyahu, Barak on Iran is a Luxury Israel Can’t Afford
The critics should look no further than the U.S. to see what consequences can ensue.
Op-eds
Obama’s Way of War
Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold M...
Op-eds
Terrorists or Fall Guys?
The MEK puzzle.
Op-eds
The Deceits of Seymour Hersh
Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...