War And Pieces: The Shape of Teachers’ Anti-Israel Drive
So much for “the peaceful solution” and “this very peaceful way.”
Amani Barakat must be joking when she twice touts the “peaceful” tactics of an anti-Israel drive among West Coast teachers’ unions. Simultaneously, Barakat continues...
Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy: a warning against American retreat
With ironic timing, the death of Donald Rumsfeld this week has occurred when American foreign policy is lurching in precisely the opposite direction to everything he stood for.
His passing has provoked a renewed chorus...
The EU should stop proposing peace summits and promote the Abraham Accords
It’s been 30 years since the Madrid Conference, the aim of which was to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Yet, after three decades, Europe still hasn’t grasped what a failure it and all other...
Transcending Global Realpolitik: President Joe Biden’s Overriding Foreign Policy Challenge
Abstract: Regarding American foreign policy, US President Joseph Biden has now correctly embarked upon a plan to reverse derelictions of his White House predecessor. As many Trump-inflicted harms were grievous and potentially catastrophic, this plan...
Biden’s promise on Iranian nukes is worthless
Outgoing Israeli President Reuven Rivlin met with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington this week and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Rome. The theme of both meetings as far...
Cracks in Israel’s Government Coalition, Opposition
Some instances from the beginning of Israel’s new government:
Likud has picked on a law of family reunification in order to embarrass, and perhaps defeat the Bennett-Lapid government. It’s a law that prevents Palestinians, who...
A Summit of Consequence? Great Power Diplomacy and Inadvertent Nuclear War
“In a surrealist year…. some cool clown pressed an inedible mushroom button, and an inaudible Sunday bomb fell down, catching the president at his prayers on the 19th green.”-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the...
In the face of disaster, the priority is help and prayer, not politics
It has become a trope of American culture that the idea of sending “thoughts and prayers” in response to a catastrophic event has become a term of derision. This is mostly related to the...
Could Palestinian protests lead to the ouster of Mahmoud Abbas?
As unrest continues in Ramallah and Hebron, questions have arisen surrounding the future of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas.
For the fifth straight day Monday, protesters called for the ouster of Abbas following the...
The Opposite of Courage Is Not Always Cowardice
Courage is a word that is used to describe when a person tries to overcome his fears of something that he perceives to be dangerous or else his discomfort from something that he perceives...