The United States and North Korea: Deterrence, Not “Denuclearization”
“Men as a rule willingly believe what they want to believe.” (Julius Caesar, Caesar's Gallic War, Book III, Chapter 18)
Following the manifestly inconclusive Singapore summit, when not even the definition of "complete denuclearization" could be agreed upon,...
Naval arms race between Israel and Hamas picks up steam
Hamas’s military wing in Gaza increasingly finds itself blocked off by Israel on land, underground and in the air. As a result, it appears to be making a greater effort to develop its abilities...
Exhausting, yet fun, travel in North America
Six weeks, eleven flights, six states, one one-week cruise and four countries (not including the USA). That is feeble compared with the Beatles’ tour of the USA in 1965 (twenty-five cities in thirty days),...
Liberal Zionism isn’t dead, but needs to wake up to new realities
Pity the poor liberal Zionist. American Jews who identify as both political liberals and supporters of Israel are speaking up lately about their difficult plight. They have been caught in the crossfire between leftist...
Newest UNRWA School books presented for the first time… at the Swedish Parliament
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), fostered in 1948 to aid more than half a million Arabs refugees who left their homes in during Israel War of Independence, today serves more than...
Arab writers on renowned historian Bernard Lewis (1916-2018)
Following the death of preeminent historian and Middle East researcher Prof. Bernard Lewis of Princeton University, many articles were published in the Arab media about his activity and his attitude towards the Arab and...
A spirit of interfaith solidarity
Ramadan is not only a month for spiritual awakening that sees Muslims reaffirming and expressing their love for God through fasting, but also a month where people with different faiths, opinions, languages and ethnicities...
Recalling Project Daniel: Israel, Iran and Regional Nuclear War
“In the end, we must all depend upon creatures of our own making.” (Goethe, Faust)
On January 16, 2003, the private Project Daniel Group first advised then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the then already-growing threat of...
US-North Korea Summit: Good for Israel, or Great for Israel?
A groundbreaking and historic diplomatic summit between the United States of America and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea in Singapore has the potential to reverse the course of a conflict that has...
How to defeat Hamas without firing a shot: Deprive Hamas of life support...
20,000 members of the Hamas terrorist organization who have been organizing and participating in continuing riots on the Gaza fences, are actually employees of UNRWA.
That is because Hamas won consecutive elections and gained control...