Israel
Does International Humanitarian Law Prolong Conflicts?
On March 14, 2024, Israel sent a letter to President Joe Biden, committing itself to using American weapons and munitions in accordance with international law. The letter was a response...
How a Bureaucratic Change Helped Save Israel
An obscure bureaucratic change enabled the extremely successful, coordinated defense of Israel against the recent Iranian attack. President Donald Trump’s January 2021 decision to transfer Israel to U.S. Central Command...
The Gulf’s New Regional Vision Makes Room for Israel
Nearly six months ago, Hamas upended the Middle East equilibrium. Now, with the war in Gaza still raging, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has charted a new vision for regional...
The “Ecocide” Smear Targets Israel
After the U.S. military destroyed millions of acres of Vietnamese forests and farmland by spraying tactical herbicides in the Vietnam War, the international community coined the term “ecocide” to describe...
Joe Biden’s Plan for a Palestinian State Will Harm America and Israel
Hamas commits the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. Hundreds of civilians from Gaza actively participate in the slaughter. Spontaneous celebrations erupt from Khan Yunis to Ramallah. Washington’s preferred...
What Netanyahu Can Learn From The War on Terror
The shocking news that the vaunted Israeli security services were completely surprised by Hamas’ attack on Israel, even though that security establishment had obtained a detailed plan of the actual...
President Biden: Continue Backing Israel, Ignore Netanyahu
Editor’s Note: The following article is an open letter addressed to President Joe Biden. Dear President Joe Biden, It is difficult to find the words to describe the extent to...
Is a Wider War About to Break Out in the Middle East?
Amid warfare, assassinations, and bombings in the Middle East, two developments could ultimately reshape the region for the better. The first is the discrediting of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu....
What Israel Can Learn from U.S. Intelligence Failures
New details of Israel’s massive intelligence failure preceding Hamas’s surprise terrorist attack on October 7 continue to come to light. It was recently reported that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...
Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and the War on Hamas
We hear it so often that it sounds routine. “I am not an anti-Semite. I am an anti-Zionist,” the occasional anti-Semite confesses with astonishing candor. Such openness reveals the speaker’s...
Has the War in Gaza Killed the Two-State Solution?
Recognition among Western governments of the scale of death and dispossession in Gaza has been widely accompanied by references to the need to return to a two-state solution to the...
NATO Has a Role to Play in Israel’s War on Hamas
If there are any lessons from the deadly days since the Hamas began its ambush of Israel on October 7 it is that Israel’s victory will come at a high...