US presence in the Middle East at a critical junction
The United States has provided a critical military presence in the region throughout the decades.
Thomas Friedman
Biden’s Imaginary Iran
Tehran’s hostility is clear, so why does the White House keep ignoring it?
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No normalization at any price
Biden pursues peace between Israel and Saudia Arabia as he prepares to betray both.
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Why the West Bank is in chaos
Palestinian terrorism in Israel is on the rise. Daily headlines convey a steady stream of stabbings, vehicular attacks, and other forms of violence. Few expect the media to be fair, much less balanced....
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Israel must reclaim its Arab citizens
Israeli-Arabs, who undeniably enjoy greater rights and freedoms in Israel than in any of the surrounding states, are drifting away from their Israeli identity.
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The fall of the Golden Arch Theory
Enriching tyrants doesn’t prevent wars after all
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Why The Iran Nuclear Talks Were Over Before They Began
Indirect talks between the United States and Iran resumed this week in Vienna with world powers eager to find out if the Islamic Republic would agree to curtail its nuclear program. The truth: the...
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Trump’s Wish to End the ‘Endless Wars’ Denies Reality
ISIS isn't dead, al-Qaeda is not a ‘shadow of its former self,’ and the Taliban is not our counterterrorism partner.
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The man who would be Saudi king
Mohammad bin Salman is a young man in a hurry. When I visited Saudi Arabia back in February he was only the deputy cro...
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How Will Jihadist Strategy Evolve as the Islamic State Declines?
Co-written by Colin Clarke Jihadist strategy has always been dynamic and opportunistic. Milita...
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Iran Is Working with al Qaeda
On July 21, the Pentagon announced that Muhsin al-Fadhli, an al Qaeda operative who had been wanted for more than a decade, was killed in an airstrike in Syria earlier in the month. Fadhli has be...
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If a Palestinian Minister Falls and No One Is Around to Hear It…
Big news stories are a dime a dozen these days. Between the Iran nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the war in Yemen, it’s an ideal environment for making...
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What Netanyahu didn’t say
What is it about Israel in general and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular that leads to so much careless reporting and tendentious commentary? Start with The New York Times,...
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Obama and the U.S. Interfere in Israeli Politics Far More Than the Other Way Around
The commentariat is buzzing over whether House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s to address a joint meeting of Congress in March represe...
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Fatal Procrastination
In his April 2012 speech at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., President Obama said: "We must tell our children about how this evil was allowed to happen — because so many people su...
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The U.S. Is Following Iran’s Lead In Both Syria and Iraq
President Obama has made clear that the purpose of his limited intervention in Iraq is to shore up the central government in Bagh...
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Gen. Flynn’s Warning
Two recent interviews have been the topic of lively debate within the so-called foreign policy community. First, President Obama told ...
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A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
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The Iranian Rapprochement Fantasy
‘Any agreement that does not recognize the rights of the Iranian people and does not respect these rights, has no chance,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said last week. The Iranian fo...
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One-Man Show
Perhaps the greatest casualty in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s campaign against political challengers has been former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. &l...