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Jacob Nagel

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Jacob Nagel is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

The cons of a US-Israel defense treaty

Such a treaty could curtail Israel's freedom of action and signal that it cannot defend itself by itself.

August 20, 2023

Lebanese soldiers and Hezbollah fighters taking pictures during a fire that spread from the Lebanese side of the border to the Israeli side of the border in Kibbutz Malkia, northern Israel, July 28, 2023. Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90.

It’s time for a policy change on the northern border

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah must be disabused of the notion that he has managed to deter Israel.

August 6, 2023

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, shows then-President Hassan Rouhani models of nuclear centrifuges, April 9, 2019. Credit: Iranian President’s Office.

It would be better for Israel if Iran enriched to 90% now

An Iranian push to weapons grade uranium is preferable if it means billions of dollars not flowing to the regime and bursting the illusion that "freezing" enrichment at 60% is meaningful.

Jacob Nagel and Mark Dubowitz

July 30, 2023

World powers and Iran in Vienna for talks discussing the Iran nuclear deal, November 2021. Source: E.U. delegation in Vienna/Twitter.

Israel must oppose US-Iran ‘understandings’

Israel must highlight the dangers of the provisions being formulated.

June 21, 2023

Uranium enrichment centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility. Credit: Tehran Times.

Israel must stop a bad Iran deal, whatever the cost

Normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia should not come at the expense of Israel's top priority.

June 1, 2023

Negotiations in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany) along with the European Union. Feb. 11, 2022. Source: E.U. delegation in Vienna/Twitter.

Iran is pushing Israel towards a multi-theater conflagration

A partial nuclear agreement, even a broad one, will buy the world only a few weeks, or maybe months.

April 9, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives attends a conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Jan. 15, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Security challenges facing the new Israeli government

With his return to office, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confronts challenges with which he is intimately familiar, although some have taken new forms during his 18-month absence.

January 18, 2023

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Credit: President.gov.ua via Wikimedia Commons.

Biden and Zelenskyy’s strong message to Iran

It is imperative to punish the Iranian regime for its blatant breaches of human rights in both Iran and Ukraine.

December 29, 2022

Israel's Iron Dome air-defense system intercepts rockets from the Gaza Strip, as seen from Sderot in southern Israel, Aug. 7, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Why Israel must not provide the Iron Dome to Ukraine

While Israel should avoid sending weapon systems, it could definitely provide Kyiv with good intelligence on Iran’s actions, drones and ballistic missiles.

November 6, 2022