Will Bibi Make the Left’s Nightmares Come True? It’s Never Happened Before
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Menachem Begin
The Abraham Accords
Will they transform the Middle East?
Op-eds
How To Maintain Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge
The Arab-Israel conflict appears to be waning. Three Arab countries—the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Sudan—recently announced normalization agreements with Israel. More (Oman, Saudi Arabia,...
Op-eds
Iran Could Face a Summer of Nuclear Sabotage
A powerful explosion destroyed an advanced centrifuge assembly plant in Iran earlier this month, an event which anonymous sources told U.S. journalists was the result of Israeli sabotage. An attack by Jerusalem...
Insights
What we know about Iran five years after Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
We have five years of experience to compare the competing assessments of 2015. Now we know that Netanyahu’s gloomy forecast has proven to be the more prescient.
Op-eds
The life, times and foreign policies of Jimmy Carter
One of his wisest advisors attempts to give them a new and improved look.
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Analysis: German FM Fishes for Antisemitic Vote in Row with Israel
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel’s ongoing assaults on the legitimacy of the Israeli government may actually be about winning the federal election in September. In the latest...
Op-eds
Our Iranian Interlocutor
Antisemitism has never been an easy subject for America’s foreign-policy establishment. Read through State Department telegrams and Central Intelligence Agency operational and intelligence...
Op-eds
A House Undivided: Israel’s New Consensus Politics
Israelis go to the polls on March 17, and in a time-honored tradition, international pundits are hopin...
Op-eds
You Don’t Like Dealing With Terrorists? Bring Them Down.
I was in the room in 1985 during the US/Iran/Israel negotiations that eventually led to Iran-Contra, and while I had no authority to make commitments for the American Government, I had plenty of...
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One More Lesson From Shamir
Jonathan did a great service to our readers in his eulogy of Yitzhak Shamir....
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What’s Next for Egypt?
The Muslim Brotherhood, which won the presidency Saturday, sees itself as a corrective to modern Egyptian life
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London Jews’ Labour Problem
London mayoral candidate Ken Livingstone—whose political future will be determined in today’s election against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson—has a Jewish problem. He&rsqu...
Op-eds
Bibi, the Begin Doctrine, and the U.S.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech on Monday at the AIPAC conference reinforcing the Begin Doctrine — the preemptive-milit...
Op-eds
Israel Has the Power to Knock Out Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
Israel's “determination to prevent confrontation states . . . from gaining access to nuclear weapons” is the preemptive foreign policy doctrine of the Jewish state. Thos...
Op-eds
Fork in the Road Map
It happened 55 years ago. Israel had declared its independence on May 14th, 1948 and was immediately invaded by Arab armies intent on strangling the infant nation in its cradle....