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Yoram Ettinger

Yoram Ettinger

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

Those who claim that the Jewish majority faces an Arab “demographic time bomb” are either dramatically mistaken or outrageously misleading.
Principled rejection of American pressure has benefited both Israel and the United States.
Israel is a mega-billion-dollar battle-tested laboratory for the U.S. military.
Four realities the U.S. State Department must recognize for such an agreement to be achieved.
Despite domestic political unrest over its government’s judicial reform push, the data predict growth for Israel’s economy.
The ayatollahs’ track record in Latin America proves the self-destructive nature of the U.S. diplomatic option regarding Iran
American officials might not like strong Israeli leaders, but they do respect them.
While Western conventional wisdom is based heavily on the pro-Palestinian Arab talk, Middle East reality is shaped by the Arab walk.
The roots of American attitudes to Israel are deeper than the political beltway of Washington, D.C., and precede both the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state and the 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence.
Seeking to avoid a multi-front war, Israel pursues a policy of containment that erodes its deterrence, bringing such a war closer but under much worse conditions.
Succumbing to U.S. presidential coercion ignores precedent, undermines Israeli deterrence, encourages anti-U.S. and anti-Israel regimes and adds fuel to the Middle East fire.
The United States should derive much satisfaction from Israel’s demographic viability and the enhanced posture of deterrence deriving from it.