Our Foes Would Fill Doran’s Mideast Vacuum
Michael Doran might be jumping the gun in claiming that Donald Trump is channeling Ronald Reagan in the Middle East (Letters, March 10). We don’t know yet whether the president...
Michael Scott Doran
Israel Can’t Substitute for the U.S. in the Middle East
The Jewish state can protect its neighborhood, but the Persian Gulf needs a superpower’s attention.
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Israel SitRep: December 23, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IDF Plans to Stay in Syrian Mount Hermon Through Winter, Racing to Complete Preparations | Two Jerusalem Men Indicted for Providing Information to Hezbollah; Nazareth Man Indicted in...
Israel at War Situation Report
Who Started the Gaza War?
America did
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The Realignment
On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.
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Revisionist history on the Iran deal
President Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian terror master Qassem Soleimani followed Tehran’s repeated violent escalations aimed at the United States and the region. But to hear former Obama administration...
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Trump can get both Turkish and Kurdish support in Syria by negotiating peace deal
President Trump’s strategy of getting out of Syria but keeping the oil continues to stir up policy debates and emotions. Opponents of the U.S. withdrawal see this as a betrayal of the Syrian Kurds,...
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Thirty-Five Former U.S. Officials and Policy Experts Ask Treasury Department to Safeguard Global Financial System by Sanctioning New Iran Trade Vehicle
(Washington, DC, July 16, 2019) – A group of 35 policy experts and former U.S. officials – including two former senators, four former officials with rank of ambassador, and a form...
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Trump Is Crude. But He’s Right About Saudi Arabia.
On the strategic questions that matter in the Middle East, the president is cleareyed.
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Former Government Officials and Experts Support Efforts to Fix Iran Nuclear Deal
Washington, D.C., October 30, 2017 – Following President Donald Trump’s decision to refrain from certifying Iran’s compliance with the Iran nuclear deal under the Congressionall...
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How Barack is like Ike
The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U....
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Worse Than No Strategy
It seems like only yesterday that President Obama was being criticized for having no strategy to counter the jihadi threat. In fact, it was about ten days ago. Peggy Noonan’s Feb. 1 W...
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Iran Will Never Be The Capable Ally Obama Wants In The Fight Against ISIS
As we enter the critical stage of the P5+1's nuclear negotiations with Iran, we learn more and more about how much the deal means to President Barack Obama. In the White H...
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‘Chickens—gate’ Is All About Obama Trying To Silence Israel
In remarks to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg last week, anonymous senior Obama administration officials ...
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The Obama-Khamenei Alliance
Never mind the negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program. Far more urgent developments are afoot. While the foreign ministers were busily counting how many c...
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Obama’s Plan for Iran
Iran’s rulers brutalize their own citizens, sponsor terrorism on several continents, and openly vow “Death to America!” They are determined to acquire the ability to develop nuc...
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Analysis: Has the Geneva Agreement Undercut Sanctions to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Program?
The interim nuclear deal reached between the major powers and the Islamic Republic on November 24 opened the investment floodgates for Western companies seeking to capitalize on a new business en...
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Why did France Toss a Wrench in the Iran Nuclear Talks?
France blocked an agreement on Sunday to curb Iran’s nuclear program because, to cite French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, it did not want to be part of a con game that would allow Tehra...
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The End of Syria
Last week marked the second year anniversary of the popular uprising in Syria. On its current trajectory, Syria is headed toward geographical fragmentation. As the security situation deteriorates...
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Eisenhower’s New Fans
Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel look to the 34th president as a foreign-affairs model. But is it a willful misreading?