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Yoram Ettinger

Yoram Ettinger

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

Attachment to historic and religious roots is the foundation of growth, security and respect from fellow human beings.
The statement, marking the first time in six years that the United States has enabled the UNSC to act against Israel, reflects a return to center stage of Foggy Bottom’s anti-Israel worldview.
The Accords have yielded initial and unprecedented signs of moderation, modernity and peaceful coexistence.
(May apply to additional Western democracies.)
The secretary of state’s misreading of the situation in the region undermines U.S. interests in general, and regional peace and stability in particular.
One shouldn’t rely on the columnist’s assessments concerning the Middle East.
Its well-intentioned policy has fueled Middle East violence, generating tailwinds to rogue entities and headwinds to the U.S. and its Arab allies.
Israel should be aware of the intrinsic flaws of all security guarantees, and rely on its own security capabilities.
The U.S.-engineered agreement will only empower Iran and Hezbollah, causing further terrorism and instability.
U.S. and Western moral values and Iran’s embrace of child martyrdom are clearly incompatible.
Downplaying its centrality in the shaping of the ayatollahs’ foreign and national security policy only adds fuel to the Middle East and global fires, and endangers U.S. national security.
A Palestinian state would be a terror entity that would destroy Jordan and other pro-U.S. Arab regimes.