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Working Out the Deal

Shoshana Bryen
The arrival in Washington of Ron Dermer, a key strategic advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, suggests that after negotiating terms for Israel...

US Military Stays Tight With Israel Despite Political Rifts

Shoshana Bryen
The American reaction to Israel’s proposed judicial reform paved the way for various parties to stake out positions with regard to Israel, its government,...

Team Biden Outmaneuvered by China?

Eric Rozenman
U.S. policy toward China appears to be suffering from a belief in magic – that, for instance, withdrawing from Afghanistan would be a great idea;...

Refuse-to-Serve: Biased Israeli Media is Not Reporting the Full Story

David M. Weinberg
Anybody getting their news from mainstream Israeli media over the past month surely knows that top military personnel “by the thousands” are refusing to show...

Politicized Tisha B’Av sermons won’t save Israel

Jonathan Tobin
What is arguably the most often cited lesson of Jewish history can be boiled down to two words: sinat chinam or “baseless hatred.” The reference is...

The Phone Call Doesn’t Matter

Shoshana Bryen
The hasty, “save my skin with Jewish voters, please” phone call by President Joe Biden to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t/can’t/won’t undo two...

Biden Admin Hypocrisy Leaves US Ally Hanging Out to Dry

Shoshana Bryen
Summer questions are like gnats. You can swipe at them, but they don’t go away. So, take them on. The Biden administration has axed science and...

Making Sense of the Jenin Raid

Shoshana Bryen
Israel’s military operation in Jenin has ended and the IDF has withdrawn from the Palestinian town. You can see some of the results here and weapons...

Assad Returns to the Arab League—U.S. Diplomacy Stumbles

Eric Rozenman
Bashar al-Assad appears to have won Syria’s devasting 12-year civil war. The 21-nation Arab League (22 with the inclusion of the notional entity of...

Here’s What Will Happen When Palestine’s Strongman Leader Finally Dies

Shoshana Bryen
Palestinian Authority (PA) strongman Mahmoud Abbas visited China recently, where he dismissed the Uyghur genocide and eschewed “using the Xinjiang problem as a way of interfering...

Misunderstanding Lady Liberty: Why We’re Free in America

Eric Rozenman
For diversity enthusiasts, the crowd on and around the Statue of Liberty on a recent Sunday looked like the United Nations General Assembly out...

WHO Is Running the Club

Shoshana Bryen
A club that lets everybody in isn’t a club. The UN lost any claim to being an international forum for democracy when the U.S. agreed...

Israel’s Obligations in Abbas’s War

Shoshana Bryen
Israel’s top security officials were recently in Washington, D.C. to meet with high-level Biden administration officials. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, the meetings were...

Biden’s Antisemitism Plan Should Take A Leaf Out Of George Washington’s Book

Shoshana Bryen
Unfortunately-necessary disclaimer: Yes, there was slavery before and during the founding years. No, slaves were not included as citizens. Yes, that was a founding...

Israel and the Never-Ending War on Terror

Yochanan Visser
It has now been a week and a half since the latest mini-war between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ended in...