Julio Messer Archives

Julio Messer

Then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben-Gurion International Airport on the arrival of the first batch of Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccines, Dec. 9, 2020. Credit: GPO.

A strategic alliance against COVID-19

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accomplished far more than securing millions of mRNA vaccine doses.

Julio Messer

August 2, 2021

Anti-Netanyahu protesters outside the Jerusalem District Court where the Israeli prime minister's trial is being held, April 25, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

A cult of personality-destruction

History may record that those who claimed Netanyahu turned the Likud Party into a “cult of personality” were the ones who benefited from a “cult of personality destruction” in order to unseat him.

Julio Messer

June 10, 2021

U.S. Chief of Protocol Cam Henderson assists U.S. President Donald Trump, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan with the documents during the signing of the Abraham Accords on the South Lawn of the White House, Sept. 15, 2020. Credit: Andrea Hanks/White House.

Sanity in the Middle East

President Donald Trump and the leaders of several so-called “moderate Sunni countries” have finally understood three crucial points that Benjamin Netanyahu had been emphasizing for a long time.

Julio Messer

September 16, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London on Sept. 5, 2019. Photo by Chaim Tzach/GPO.

A reply to the honorable Prime Minister Boris Johnson

The major contribution of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan is the message it sends to the Palestinians that time is no longer on their side.

Julio Messer

July 14, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon, 1977. Credit: Wikipedia/Government Press Office.

The Allon Plan: Then and now

With some slight changes, President Donald Trump resuscitated the original plan for parts of the West Bank put forth by left-wing Israeli party member Yigal Allon and gave it the imprimatur of the U.S. government.

Julio Messer

July 1, 2020

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the extension of Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and its Jewish settlements, Sept. 10, 2019. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Daniel Pipes’s ‘Don’t annex’ advice

Until now, it had been most unusual for arguments by the president of the Middle East Forum to be so easily brushed aside.

Julio Messer

May 11, 2020

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