Michael Oren
Khamenei’s war aims
Iran’s ruler intends to establish an empire and exterminate Israelis
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Israel SitRep: March 22, 2024
Today’s Issue: Shifa Hospital Raid: More Than 500 Arrested, including Senior Hamas and PIJ Officials | IDF Continues “Targeted Fighting” at Shifa Hospital, Operations Ongoing Elsewhere in Gaza |...
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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...
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Russia Can’t Solve Israel’s Security Dilemma
Israel lost its first aircraft in combat since the early 1980s last month. Syrian air defe...
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Hopeless in Gaza
Gaza has been an unhappy place for a long time but the situation is now reportedly growing desperate. Jobs are scarce, electricity...
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Label Europe anti-Israel
On Wednesday, the European Union is slated to officially announce guidelines mandating the labeling of products from Israeli settlements. This form of economic warfare unfairly targets the Jewish...
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Israel Reportedly Strikes Multiple Targets in Syria in Recent Days
By David Barnett The Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck at least one target inside Syria between Thursday evening and Friday morning....
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Assad’s Cabinet
Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.
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The Battle of Gaza
Who won?
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A Sudan Surprise
Sudan has played a key role in arming Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets, experts said. The Israeli Defense Forces’ (IDF) principal objective in Gaza is to rid...
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Are Gaza Strikes a Dress Rehearsal for Potential Israeli Assault on Iran?
Israel may be targeting more than Hamas as it escalates its bombing campaign in Gaza and tries to eliminate the threat of increasingly lethal stockpiled rockets. Israel's real target may be...
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A Pillar of Problems
Eight questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict we still don't have a good handle on.
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Iran Targeted Israeli Embassy in Washington
In the fall of 2011, the Obama administration revealed that American officials had discovered an...
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State of the Union
After a week at the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, where he joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in pushing back against the Palestinians’ statehood bid, Israel&rs...
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Unhappy Anniversary
The 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, June 5 – 10, was the occasion for a flurry of media retrospectives. Less attention will be given to a related anniversary: June 19, 1967, when the I...
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Obama Can Stop the Killing in Syria
The United States has leverage with the murderous Bashar al-Assad; it has simply chosen not to use it.
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Questions for the Pentagon: Who is Hesham Islam?
In the sorry tradition of shooting the messenger, the Pentagon is cashiering its top expert on Islamist doctrine, Stephen Coughlin. Some members of Congress are now contemplating hearings to ask...
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The Pirates of Somalia
Not long after achieving independence, the United States faced its first foreign threat: pirates off the coast of Africa seizing American merchant ships. As Michael Oren recounts in...
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How to Stifle Speech
There's an old Soviet joke in which an American tells a Russian: "In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in front of the White House and yell, ‘Nixon is an idiot!' a...