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Yoram Ettinger

Yoram Ettinger

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

Israel’s QME enhances its posture of deterrence, advancing major geostrategic goals without the need for additional U.S. military personnel.
While the U.S. elections will be determined by domestic issues, voters should realize that their choice will have significant ramifications for national and homeland security.
Israel’s peace accords with Egypt, Jordan, the UAE and Bahrain, and the overall Arab reaction to them, have proven that the road to Israel-Arab peace goes through a strong Israel.
The UAE peace deal proves that the U.S. and Israel should not base their national security policy on the philo-Palestinian Arab talk, which misrepresents Middle East reality, but rather on the Arab walk.
Western misreading of the region is yielding devastating consequences.
While David Ben-Gurion’s defiance caused occasional short-term tension, which undermined Israel’s popularity, he earned long-term respect for himself and for his country.
The left-right divergence of confidence in mass media highlights the political, ideological, social and cultural polarization that has afflicted both countries.
The application of Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and parts of Judea and Samaria will bolster Israeli deterrence and advance the national security of the pro-U.S. Arab states.
Israeli policy-makers be warned: History proves that U.S. commitments do not even bind the president who signed them.
Erroneous assumptions produce erroneous policies, as evidenced by the litany of Western peace proposals based on the idea that the Palestinian issue is the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Irrespective of their pro-Palestinian talk, Arab leaders are convinced that a Palestinian state would add fuel to the regional fire.
Western foreign-policy and national-security establishments would do well to remember that the “best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.”