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Gregg Roman

Gregg Roman is executive director of the Middle East Forum and lead author of the MEF policy paper “From Subsidy to Sovereignty: Restructuring the U.S.-Israel Defense Relationship for the Post-Aid Era” (April 2026).

America’s pro-Israel lobby has been written off before. The next chapter—built on technology, defense industrial integration and shared strategic competition—should be its most consequential.
The Nexus framework does not clarify a definition of what comprises Jew-hatred. It obscures it.
If an investigation confirms Iranian involvement in the mass shooting on Chanukah, then Canberra must sever relations with Tehran.
The terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7 exposed a fundamental truth: Hamas control masked, but never eliminated, deeper tribal loyalties.
The choice isn’t between diplomacy and security, but between accepting normalized terror operations and imposing real costs.
Jewish students have been harassed during campus events, labeled as racists, and faced physical intimidation.
Obama-Biden foreign policies enabled and are still enabling the Islamic Republic.
The U.S. should leverage the considerable domestic opposition to Hezbollah to break the terror group’s stranglehold over Lebanon.
The country exports terrorism, hate, antisemitism and anti-Americanism.
It will take time, but the terror group must be destroyed root and branch.
When Saudi Arabia realized that relations with the U.S. were not improving, it became relevant in the eyes of America’s rival China.
Haggling with dictators to secure the free world’s energy supply is bad policy.