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Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations. He has written and edited 22 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews; After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine; and Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps.

Multiple advisers said the president’s thinking aligned with Israel’s independently; it confirmed what he already believed. That is very different from manipulation.
There is a word for journalism that systematically suppresses evidence of terrorist crimes. That word is not bias. It is not sloppiness. It is complicity.
Wendy Sherman and her foreign-policy team decided that nuclear restrictions alone were worth the price of releasing $150 billion and legitimizing the Iranian regime as a threshold nuclear state.
Discomfort is not the same as persecution. There is a difference between feeling targeted and being targeted.
Its bias is not subtle; it is embedded in the organization’s framing of basic facts.
Regarding Iran, at least this administration recognizes that the mullahs bargain in bad faith and weaponize diplomacy.
A familiar dilemma exists: to reoccupy Southern Lebanon, which might push Hezbollah north of the Litani River. But that doesn’t remove the terror group’s long-range capabilities or prevent its rebuilding.
Neutrality carries its own risks: If they remain on the sidelines and the Iranian regime endures, they may be permanently vulnerable—reliant on a U.S. security guarantee that is itself limited by domestic resistance to foreign entanglements.
The U.S. president demanded Iran’s unconditional surrender. Yet if current reports are accurate, it is America and not Iran that is preparing to capitulate.
The attack on a Reform temple in Michigan demanded an address to the American people about what the administration has been doing to make Jewish citizens feel safer.
Beyond five academic institutions with campuses in Doha, the case for direct influence across the 62 others receiving support from Qatar, the largest giver of funds, remains unestablished.
History has rendered its verdict. Regional instability stemmed not from Jerusalem but from revolutionary regimes, sectarian rivalries, Iranian expansionism, jihadism and Palestinian