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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).

My daughter has tried to make the sealed room a sanctuary of peace and comfort for her two young daughters. After all, she knows that the harsh reality of hatred will hit them soon enough.
The Russians, as well as their Chinese “frenemies,” see America’s retreat from the region as an opportunity to swoop in, fill the void and flex their muscles.
Iran has felt emboldened and empowered to colonialize the Middle East with its proxy, terrorist armies stretching from Tehran to Baghdad, to Damascus to Beirut, and all the way to the Mediterranean.
If we are going to be outraged about human rights, then our outrage should extend to the entire region.
If the new administration sees as part of its objective making Israel feel alone and isolated in the community of nations, this is certainly unwise.
For a brief period, the hopeful eyes of the world were watching with aspirations that this might lead to a more open and democratic Middle East, or at least one in which the most entrenched, tyrannical leaders would be overthrown and basic human rights would be established.
A team of progressives has put forth a list of 100 names to serve in national security and foreign-policy capacities in the Biden White House. If personality equals policy, the pro-Israel community has reason to be concerned.
We have to dispel the illusion in the foreign-policy establishment that a deal, any deal, is the penultimate objective of diplomacy.
While many cling to the view that the Palestinian issue is merely a human-rights struggle, think for a moment of the families of all of those who have had loved ones murdered by terrorists.
With its seemingly infinite wealth, the Sunni Arab nation has become the chief patron of radical Islamists throughout the world, as it simultaneously has become the most astute influence operator in Washington and throughout Western capitals.
For decades now, behind the ivory-covered towers of our universities, bias has reared its head against Israel and the United States, particularly within Middle East Studies programs.
It has taken 72 years and the Iranian threat, but the icy-cold chill of the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East has begun to thaw.