America
China’s quiet rise in the Middle East’s new power struggle - opinion
The new Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan alliance signals a shifting Middle East – and China may be the biggest winner as regional powers seek new security partners.
Iran’s Strait of Hormuz leverage is fading as global oil keeps flowing - opinion
Iran’s powerful militia network could expand war - opinion
US Southern Command strike kills two alleged narco-terrorists in Eastern Pacific
In his desperate search for a Middle East victory, Trump confuses tactics with strategy - opinion
Hardly a day goes by without Iran thumbing its nose at Trump, declaring that Tehran, not Washington, controls the international waterway of the Strait of Hormuz.
After the elections, Israel must repair the damage Netanyahu did to its US alliance - opinion
After decades of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm, a new government must immediately begin the process of repairing the damage caused.
The Middle East’s ‘peace architecture’ may be giving rise to an anti-Israel bloc - opinion
Instead of building peace, we are building a system in which Israel's enemies keep their weapons while Israel's friends gain the power to tell Israel when it may use its own.
The end of the ‘Goldene Medina’ - opinion
Antisemitism is the fundamental trigger of hostility to Israel and not vice versa, nor is the latter primarily a consequence of the political character of whichever Israeli government...
SNAFU on the Potomac: Trump, Iran, and the dysfunction in Washington - opinion
The incumbents will swear they’ve been working diligently for you, but it is all the others who’ve made the mess. Most citizens will agree on the need for change but then send in the same old clowns.
Economic pressure can buy Israel time. Mistaking it for a strategy would squander it - opinion
A blockade would impose real costs on Tehran and make Israel safer. But weakening Iran is not the same as toppling the regime. It is the difference between buying time and solving the problem.
Kurds are not a proxy. We are a nation without a front - opinion
I can forgive an anonymous stranger a cheap joke. I have less patience for people who call themselves intellectuals and arrive at the identical idea in longer sentences.
The question is not ‘Bibi: Yes or no?’ but the answer is, ‘Which Israel?’ - opinion
Perhaps, after nearly 80 years devoted to changing the Jewish condition, Israel has reached another stage of Zionism.
Is Netanyahu the Palestinians’ new BFF? - opinion
The Saudis insisted they would not normalize relations until Israel and the Palestinians had made credible progress on negotiations toward statehood, something Netanyahu rejected.
The DSA says October 7 was inevitable. It was planned. It was a choice - opinion
October 8 was not weeks later. It was not after Israel entered Gaza and began its military operation. It was the very next day. Israelis were still counting the dead, the burned and desecrated bodies