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Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern

Sarah N. Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), a think tank that specializes in the Middle East. She is the author of Saudi Arabia and the Global Terrorist Network (2011).

The United States and its allies have put themselves in a diplomatic box; still, one answer to the dilemma lies on the streets of Iran.
For those of us old enough to remember, when Israeli forces entered the Old City of Jerusalem and approached the Western Wall, it was a rare moment of Jewish historical ecstasy.
Besides nuclear weapons, the Islamic Republic has been hard at work at intercontinental ballistic missiles—not merely to reach Tel Aviv, but Washington, D.C., or New York City as well.
Either we will find ourselves standing on the right side of history ... or we will not.
Why, when the entire world is being confronted with the enormity of Vladimir Putin’s evil, are we allowing the Russians lucrative and expansive loopholes?
We are watching the erosion of the liberal world order with the United States at its helm. The way to restore it can only be through a display of moral courage and strength.
We have always had in the West a troop of “useful idiots” who believe the assurances of fanatical despots and dictators.
Allowing Vladimir Putin to be our emissary in Vienna in such an important, delicate negotiation as the Iranian nuclear deal is like allowing the “Boston Strangler” to babysit your children.
The agonizing reality is that no matter how polite one is—no matter how humanistic, how compassionate—there will be those who single us out for hatred simply because we are Jews.
There has been a constant and unabated effort to defame the Jewish state, and erode its moral standing among the community of nations and delegitimize its very existence.
“Thought police” have cancelled speakers on campus. Students even cancel themselves over fear of arousing the angry mob. And, as is so often the case, the first victims of this particular form of tyranny are the Jews.
The crumbling of America’s stature within the community of nations is beginning to have a deleterious effect on some of the country’s (and Israel’s) closest friends and allies.