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Dr. Eric R. Mandel

Dr. Eric R. Mandel

Dr. Eric R. Mandel is the director of MEPIN, the Middle East Political Information Network, and the senior security editor of The Jerusalem Report. He briefs members of Congress, their foreign-policy teams, and the U.S. State Department on Middle East security and strategy.

For the country north of Israel to escape permanent state failure, the restoration of a strong centralized government, free of Hezbollah’s coercion, is not optional but essential.
The United States must make clear that it will have Israel’s back if another intifada breaks out.
The Gulf nation is being included in a U.S.-led alliance despite a long history of supporting Iran and other Islamists.
Hamas is waiting for an opportunity to create chaos in the West Bank.
It is the most potent form of deterrence against an enemy. Just ask the cloistered and unpredictable tyrant in North Korea.
Understandably, America shares geopolitical interests with Qatar, but let’s not mistake these interests for a shared vision of the Middle East.
“Our interests and our view of the world, and our freedoms and democracy, and our everything else are congruent virtually with Israel — and that’s very foreign to Iranians,” says the former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and currently its ranking member.
Rejoining the Iran nuclear deal allows the Islamic Republic an industrial-sized nuclear program in just a few years and doesn’t address its missile development, human-rights abuses and support of terrorism.
Students, professors and workers of all stripes now self-censure to avoid being accused of micro-aggressions or worse.