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Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations. He has written and edited 22 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews; After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine; and Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps.

Thomas L. Friedman
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The two Tom Friedmans
Analyst Friedman observes that the establishment of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan “could be game-changing.” Prime Minister Friedman wants to change the game by returning to the failed approach of trying to pressure Israel for concessions.
Mar. 17, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Joe Biden's nominee to serve as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The retread problem: Exhibit A
I wanted to wait to see which Biden administration nominees would advocate a return to their old, ill-conceived policies. It didn’t take long.
Mar. 12, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at a meeting in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 3, 2016. Credit: Kremlin via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Don’t throw MBS under the bus
Rulers of Saudi Arabia have been exporting their anti-Semitic, anti-Christian and anti-Western beliefs around the world for decades, but Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman seems to hold none of those views and is reigning in extremists.
Mar. 3, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Opinion
Obama retreads haven’t learned lessons
President Joe Biden’s team plans to restore aid to the Palestinians—a return to the policy of rewarding them for their intransigence.
Feb. 23, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Obama, Biden
Opinion
Iran nuclear deal must be a treaty
And new negotiations must be backed by a credible threat of using military force if Iran does not accept draconian terms to end the threat it poses to our national interests and our allies.
Feb. 16, 2021
Mitchell Bard
From the Oval Office, U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sept. 27, 2013. Credit: Pete Souza/White House.
Opinion
For Obama, Israel was ‘No Promised Land’
The first volume is replete with historical errors. We’ll have to wait for the second one to read how the former president justifies the failed Iran nuclear deal, his lack of response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons and his attacks on the Israeli government.
Feb. 2, 2021
Mitchell Bard
UNRWA
Opinion
The Palestinian refugee hoax
The refugee issue is easily solvable if we return to the original definition that applied only to people who lived in Palestine in 1948-1949, not their descendants. This is the true number of refugees.
Jan. 26, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Elan Carr, U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism, speaks at a breakout session on combating the rise of anti-Semitism at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2019. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo.
Opinion
Biden should keep Trump anti-Semitism envoy
In just two years in the position, Elan Carr has traveled around the world to convey the U.S. commitment to fight Jew-hatred.
Jan. 11, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Martin Indyk
Opinion
Insane advice for Biden
To appoint Martin Indyk after all that has just transpired between Muslim countries and Israel would be turning back the clock, thinking Israel still needs to make land concessions for the sake of peace.
Jan. 3, 2021
Mitchell Bard
President-elect Joe Biden announcing his picks for his national security team. Source: Joe Biden/Facebook.
Opinion
Those prickly Jews ...
Is a Biden administration choice another example of how anti-Semitism isn’t treated with the same seriousness as other forms of bigotry?
Dec. 2, 2020
Mitchell Bard
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