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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.

The scope of American aid extends beyond dollars; intelligence, military assets and strategic support have been all invaluable.
Amnesty International is an AI that presents a clear and present threat to the truth and intellectual integrity.
Unlike Hamas to the south, Hezbollah has not been destroyed; it continues to exert influence over the country, and Iran can quickly rebuild it.
The incoming president’s foreign-policy team should clean house of the Arabists.
Trump has the opportunity to be the peacemaker he has promised to be.
Few people are talking about it, but Kamala Harris lost because Democrats are seen as placing identity politics over policy.
The vagaries of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are not clear when it comes to one of the most volatile regions in the world.
Their numbers are small, and because of where they are clustered, their impact on a presidential election will be nil.
The issue has never been Palestinian self-determination. Arab states invaded Israel in 1948 to carve it up among themselves, not create a Palestinian state.
How much more aggression must Iran display before the world acts?
Then, as now, there was a fear among many Jews that it was problematic to appear too pro-Israel. That has come back to haunt the community.