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Yoram Ettinger

Yoram Ettinger

Yoram Ettinger is a former ambassador and head of Second Thought: A U.S.-Israel Initiative.

While China’s investments overseas have recently declined, China’s investments in Israel have not.
Irrespective of the Palestinian issue, Oman—just like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt and all other pro-U.S. Arab countries—is preoccupied with domestic and regional threats and challenges, which supersede the Palestinian issue
Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S.-Israel relations have outgrown their one-way-street mode, evolving into a mutually beneficial two-way relationship.
American peace plans are bound for failure because they tend to discount the complexities of the violent Arab-Muslim reality and because they are wedded to oversimplified solutions, wishful thinking and quick fixes.
The centrality of Jerusalem in Jewish history is commemorated on the Ninth of Av.
The days when benefits and resources were funneled into the pockets of entities that spit in America’s face are over.
An Israeli retreat from the Golan Heights would not quench, but inflame Damascus’s long-term historical aspirations to solidify control of Syria.
The geo-strategic effects of the 2018 U.S. nuclear negotiation with North Korea and the 1994 U.S. nuclear agreement with Pyongyang have been closely scrutinized by Iran’s Ayatollahs.
According to Professor Daniel Elazar, the concept of the U.S. Constitution was inspired by the Bible in general, and by the covenant between God and Abraham and Jacob in particular.
The holiday highlights reality as documented by the slavery in Egypt, the Exodus, 40 years in the desert, and a litany of wars and destruction.
Since the year 2000, the economy of the Jewish state has leapt 65 percent—the second best among OECD countries.
America and its allies are faced with the choice of confronting the ayatollahs and Islamic Sunni terrorism in the trenches of the Middle East.