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Yoram Ettinger

Yoram Ettinger

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

Unlike in 1975, the U.S. now faces only the choice of whether to confront the enemy on their own territory or on American soil.
The Biden team has attempted to base its Middle East policy on the noble values of human rights and democracy, which are inconsistent with the Arab Middle East.
A wide gap exists between the Palestinian track record, on the one hand, and Washington’s well-intentioned two-state-policy on the other.
Israel’s unique secular and religious fertility rate reflects the sturdy state of mind of the Jewish state in the stormy Middle East, a most challenging region of the world.
U.S. policy-makers and legislators seem not to understand that the Iranian leopard may be capable of changing tactics, but not spots.
If there were an Israel-like entity in the Persian Gulf, the United States could terminate its military presence in the region.
The Jewish state is a military and commercial force multiplier for the United States, and one that yields a few hundred percent annual rate-of-return to the American taxpayer.
The absence of tangible Arab support for Hamas’s war on Israel reflects the consistent Arab view of both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas as role models of intra-Arab terrorism, subversion and ingratitude.
There is no Arab demographic time bomb—there is, however, an unprecedented Jewish demographic tailwind.
In the Middle East, violent regime change is the rule, not the exception.
While Iran and Turkey pursue two conflicting long-term imperialist visions, they are collaborating on the joint short-term goal of toppling every pro-U.S. Arab regime.
A hymn to the relationship between America and its most reliable and potent ally.