Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient
The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide
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U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group Authorization Provides Opportunity for Biden Administration
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which became law last week, includes a provision authorizing the establishment of a U.S.-Israel Operations-Technology Working Group (OTWG)....
Insights
COVID-19: Israel and the Palestinians
Though Israel was one of the first countries to impose aggressive measures to counter the COVID-19 crisis, lifting restrictions prematurely has sent the country into a second wave of infection. Meanwhile,...
Policy Briefs
Congressional Momentum Builds to Establish U.S.-Israel Working Group
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released its version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Tuesday, and it includes a provision to require the establishment of...
Insights
Washington’s Muted Response Emboldens Erdogan’s Hostage Diplomacy
A Turkish court on June 11 convicted Metin Topuz, a Turkish national and liaison officer for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration at the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, to eight years and nine months...
Policy Briefs
COVID-19 in Israel and the Palestinian Territories
Israel’s COVID-19 outbreak has profoundly impacted the country’s domestic political and economic situation. Israel’s relationship with the Palestinian Authority (PA) is better than expected, but a...
Policy Briefs
In Syria, Trump should act to save thousands of lives
There is a humanitarian emergency in northwest Syria in the province of Idlib. The population there was already suffering from the long and brutal civil war that began in 2011, but a new offensive by...
Op-eds
Progress on ‘the Jewish question’
Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.
Op-eds
Ayman al-Zawahiri defends 9/11 hijackings in anniversary address
Ayman al-Zawahiri defends the 9/11 hijackings in a video released on the 18th anniversary of al-Qaeda’s most devastating attack. The production, released by al-Qaeda’s As Sahab propaganda arm, is titled...
Op-eds
Did German bank close account of Israeli news website due to antisemitism?
In a telephone conversation with Deutsche Bank, the bank told 'Israel Heute' that "it did not have to justify the decision and therefore would not say anything more."
Op-eds
Khashoggi Crisis Holds a Mirror to Turkey
Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, sparking a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The Turkish government alleges...
Policy Briefs
The Pastor is Not the Only U.S. Hostage in Turkey
Turkish-American relations are at a boiling point. This month, the United States not only ...
Op-eds
Israel’s ambassador convinces Berlin’s Jewish museum to cancel BDS speaker
Jeremy Issacharoff, Israel’s ambassador to Germany, complained to the head of the Jewish Museum in Berlin about a hardcore anti-Israel speaker, prompting the museum’s director to pull...
Op-eds
Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?
On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...
Op-eds
Mahmoud Abbas Doesn’t Have a Trump Strategy
To hear Palestinian leaders tell it, their relationship with the Trump administration has now been simplified. “We will sever all ties with the Americans,” Ahmed Majdalani, a confidan...
Op-eds
The Pentagon Fills Hezbollah’s Shopping List
In recent years, federal law enforcement agencies have repeatedly arrested Hezbollah operatives in the US who were trying to procure weapons and other combat-related equi...
Op-eds
Americans Can Sue Saudi Arabia Now. So What?
Congress overrode...
Op-eds
Russia’s Middle East Offensive
Even before Russian bombers launched strikes into Syria from an Iranian air base last month, it was clear that one of President Barack Obama’s more dubious foreign policy legacies would be...
Op-eds
Palestinian Authority ‘probably’ pays terrorist families, admits German gov’t
The acknowledgment by the German government is believed to be the first Federal Republic public statement that the PA aids terrorists and their families. Volker Beck, the German Green MP...
Op-eds
Joe Biden’s Challenge in Turkey
The stakes for Vice President Joe Biden’s travels this week...