Michael Oren

April 24, 2024 | Clifford D. May |

Khamenei’s war aims

Iran’s ruler intends to establish an empire and exterminate Israelis

March 22, 2024 | |

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 |...

July 28, 2021 | Mark Dubowitz |

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...

March 12, 2018 | Alexandra N. Gutowski |

Russia Can’t Solve Israel’s Security Dilemma

Israel lost its first aircraft in combat since the early 1980s last month. Syrian air defe...

February 21, 2018 | Clifford D. May

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...

November 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

May 6, 2013 | The Long War Journal |

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....

January 11, 2013 | |

Assad’s Cabinet

Syria’s dictator’s, and the rest of the Iranian-led resistance bloc’s, well-placed advocates in Washington.

November 28, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

The Battle of Gaza

Who won?

November 23, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

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...

November 20, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

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...

November 19, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer Foreign Policy |

A Pillar of Problems

Eight questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict we still don't have a good handle on.

August 22, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Iran Targeted Israeli Embassy in Washington

In the fall of 2011, the Obama administration revealed that American officials had discovered an...

September 28, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet |

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...

August 4, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

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...

June 15, 2011 | |

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.

June 13, 2011 |

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...

March 3, 2011 |

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...

February 25, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

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...

January 25, 2008 |

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 contem...