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Iran Protests Highlight South Africa’s Broken Moral Compass

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America’s Allies Step Up Pressure on Iran. They Deserve Support.

President Donald Trump doesn’t want to float anybody’s foreign policy anymore.  Washington’s quest to better balance foreign policy priorities and have allies do more is reflected everywhere...

Trump’s Gaza peace plan is doomed — unless he shuts down terror-boosting UNRWA

When the UN Security Council approved President Donald Trump’s plan to establish a board of peace overseeing Gaza’s transformation from Hamas terror base to calm Palestinian enclave, it was...

Sharaa in Washington: A Turning Point for Syria

The question for Damascus is what comes next, with Sharaa showing that he is ready for the global prime time.   Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa visited the White House on Monday for a historic...

The Flood that Sunk the Palestinian State

When the world needed Palestinian grownups to help solve the problems in Gaza, it found none. The PLO was too corrupt and Hamas too irrational.  

Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.

Five decades after its creation, it's long past time for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to be shut down.

Tehran Jails Iranian-American Jewish Man for Visiting Israel Over a Decade Ago

American Citizen Jailed by Regime: Iran imprisoned Kamran Hekmati, an elderly Iranian-American Jewish man, for traveling to Israel 13 years ago for his son’s bar mitzvah, according...

U.S. Administration Submits Proposal To End UN Sanctions on Syria

Sharaa Heading to Washington: The United States has drafted a proposal to the UN Security Council to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Syrian Interior Minister...

The UN Cybercrime Treaty: A Trojan Horse for Suppressing Dissent

Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

Why Donald Trump’s Diplomacy Appears to be Working

President Trump’s signature transactionalism and emphasis on personal relationships with foreign leaders are helping not hindering US foreign policy.

US kills Al Qaeda-linked ‘attack planner’ in Syria

The US military killed a “senior Al-Qaeda affiliated attack planner” in an airstrike in Syria on October 2. The jihadi was a member of Ansar Islam, a terrorist organization that has operated in Iraq...

After sectarian clashes in Aleppo, US, SDF, and Syrian government officials meet in Damascus

Several rounds of meetings between US and Syrian leaders over the last two days reflect a push for integrating eastern Syria with Damascus and an attempt to reduce tensions between the Syrian...

Will Syria’s New President Live Up to the World’s Hope? The Signs Aren’t Good

Last week, Ahmad Sharaa became the first Syrian president in 60 years to visit New York for the UN General Assembly’s annual meeting.

Hamas Poised To Reject Trump Plan To End Gaza War

Hamas Pours Cold Water on Trump Plan: A senior Hamas figure said on September 30 that the terrorist organization is dissatisfied with the terms laid out by U.S. President Donald...

“What is the purpose of the U.N.?”

President Trump poses an essential question

Spain to Prevent Use of Its Bases for U.S. Weapons Shipments to Israel, Launch Probes Into Companies Advertising Israeli Products

Preventing Use of Bases: Spain has reportedly implemented measures preventing U.S. arms shipments bound for Israel from passing through its military bases. This directive applies...

‘3 to 4 Days’: Trump Hands Hamas Deadline for Peace Plan Response as Arab, Muslim States Line Up in Support

Deadline for Hamas: U.S. President Donald Trump said on September 30 that Hamas has ‘three to four’ days to accept the U.S.-proposed 20-step plan to permanently end the war...

Syria’s new president shows progress, but will he hold firm to his promises of peace? 

The undisputed star of this year’s United Nations General Assembly in New York was Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda commander who is now the president of Syria.  Sharaa came to...