Column
Even if Palestinian statehood isn’t imminent, economic development now would increase the feasibility of any future state. So why is the Palestinian Authority refusing to go to Bahrain to discuss such development?
The death of Egypt’s imprisoned Muslim Brotherhood tyrant reminds us of President Obama’s delusionary policies that nearly broke the Middle East.
With three months to go before the “do-over” Knesset elections, no issue is off-limits in the fray.
Israel’s ambassador was wrongly blamed for politicizing support for the Jewish state, although the problem goes deeper than liberal animus for Netanyahu.
The Jewish state must make friends where it can find them. Still, Jerusalem shouldn’t get involved in a great power rivalry and flout American security concerns.
Arguments like Iñaki Gabilondo’s can always find a peg to hang on; when Jews aren’t running the media, they are starting wars in the Middle East, or running the White House, or blasting Zionist propaganda at anyone in their path.
In the 1930s, Jews needed role models in baseball like Hank Greenberg. While the man who passed him on the list is no hero, we no longer need them.
It’s hard to see how the Iranian regime can be stopped without some kind of military action being taken against it. Those who believe that is unthinkable and can best be avoided by the 2015 deal are wrong.
With both the Europeans and Democrats hoping to thwart Trump’s efforts to pressure Tehran, Obama’s deceptions that enabled the pact strip it of legitimacy.
At a time when the murders in Pittsburgh and Poway are still fresh in our memories, what kind of message does it send to supply a country like Qatar with military hardware?
Contrary to the way a “New York Times” interview has been reported, Israel retaining the right to some of the West Bank has been U.S. policy long before Trump.
He said nothing controversial whatsoever about the West Bank, except in the eyes of those who consider any Israeli territorial or other claims illegitimate.