Was the Soleimani Killing a Policy Success?Mona Charen (Patriot Post)
Jan. 10, 2020 There’s an old story — apocryphal, as the best stories always seem to be — that Richard Nixon asked Chinese premier Zhou Enlai what he thought about the French Revolution, and Zhou said, “It’s too soon to tell.” At first blush, the minicrisis between Iran and the United States appears to have […]
Read More →Donald Trump and the mythmakers, by Caroline B. Glick (Israel Hayom)
Jan. 10, 2020 The more successful Trump’s reality-based policies towards Iran and Israel are, the harder it will be for the foreign policy establishment to restore their delusion-based policies when he leaves power. Click here for full article
Read More →Trump Administration Calls Out Bias in Middle East Studies Programs, by Raymond Ibrahim (Gatestone Inst.)
Oct. 21, 2019 “[T]here is a considerable emphasis placed on understanding the positive aspects of Islam, while there is an absolute absence of any similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity, Judaism, or any other religion or belief system in the Middle East.” — US Department of Education, Notice of a Letter Regarding the […]
Read More →How Erdogan Planned This Ethnic Cleansing All Alongby Malcolm Lowe (Gatestone Inst.)
Oct. 16, 2019 As the Voice of America itself reported on January 23, Erdogan’s plan was to resettle three million or more refugees from other parts of Syria in this “security zone” extending twenty miles deep into Syria. Twenty miles may not sound much, but – the VOA omitted to mention – almost all the […]
Read More →The Israeli Election Lull Ends Now, by Vivian Bercovici (Commentary)
Oct. 17, 2019 Time to get serious. “…it appears, now, that the deliverance from this national stasis may have come in the form of White House chaos. Donald Trump’s recent decision to withdraw American troops from northern Syria has plunged the region into a new round of volatility and chaos. Overnight, a reasonably stable situation […]
Read More →The Dream Palace of the American Peace Processors – Michael S. Doran (Foreign Affairs via Daily Alert)
Oct. 18, 2019 The Dream Palace of the American Peace Processors – Michael S. Doran (Foreign Affairs) By moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, blessing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, and other gestures, the administration is said to have overturned half a century of settled U.S. policy, abandoned the Palestinians, and killed the two-state solution. […]
Read More →Kurdish, Syrian, and Turkish Ironies By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON (National Review)
Oct. 15, 2019 Critics now upset about abandoning our Kurdish friends demanded abject withdrawals — and the abandonment of friends — in Afghanistan and Iraq. “The chief problem is that the Kurds are our friends but not our legal allies. In contrast, the Turks are not really our friends anymore but are legal, treaty-bound allies.” Click here for full […]
Read More →From Israel: Ouch!!, by Arlene Kushner
Oct. 12, 2019 The situation I address here is awash in complexities and troubling aspects. This past Sunday, October 6, President Trump, after a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced a very sudden decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria. This was in the face of Turkish threats to invade […]
Read More →Trump did not betray the Kurds, by Caroline B. Glick (Israel Hayom)
Oct. 11, 2019 The US has neither major influence in Syria nor an interest in confronting Turkey to protect the Kurds. Trump avoided war with Turkey this week and began extracting America from an open-ended commitment to the Kurds it never made. Click here for full article
Read More →The strategic cost of Israel’s political instability, by Caroline Glick (JNS)
Sept. 25, 2019 Israel’s prolonged political volatility and uncertainty has had a disastrous impact on its strategic flexibility. When Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman abruptly resigned his position as defense minister last November and started the countdown to the Knesset elections in April, he plunged Israel into a state of political instability. Following the April […]
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