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Negotiations in Vienna over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the existing Iran nuclear deal, May 2021. Source: Enrique Mora/European External Action Service/Twitter.

While Biden envoys give away the store in Vienna, Iran escalates the conflict

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Diplomacy is in bloom in Vienna this spring. According to The Washington Post, the indirect talks taking place in the Austrian capital between the United States and Iran with diplomats from Britain, France and Germany carrying messages...
Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid and Yamina Party leader Naftali Bennett, Feb. 26, 2014. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90.

Can the Biden administration capitalize on an inexperienced Bennett-Lapid government?

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With the likelihood that new leadership will be sworn in next week in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s departure from the role he has held for almost two decades has some worried about how...
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 29, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.

In virtual White House meetings, Jewish leaders urge Biden to fill key positions on...

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Officials from the Biden administration held two virtual meetings with leaders from major Jewish organizations for in-depth conversations about the administration’s response to growing violent anti-Semitic attacks in the United States. The hour-long discussions held...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on May 25, 2021. Photo by Marc Israel Sellem/POOL

Blinken’s Mideast trip highlights limits of American efforts to isolate Hamas

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While the Biden administration’s negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip has generally being seen as successful, experts have low expectations that U.S. Secretary of State Antony...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to the Middle East after departing from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, on May 20, 2021. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha.

Blinken heads to Mideast post-conflict to speak with leaders in Israel, PA, Jordan and...

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has left for the Middle East this week in the wake of last week’s ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. According to a statement from U.S....
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2018. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock.

Former Secretary of State Pompeo blasts Biden team for ‘folly’ of appeasing Iran

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo harshly criticized the Biden administration for its blatant efforts to appease Iran by going out of its way to avoid explicitly stating the Islamic regime’s involvement in...
Rockets are launched towards Israel, as seen from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 14, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

In talks with Netanyahu, Biden urges ceasefire, reiterates support for Israel’s right to self-defense

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday updated U.S. President Joe Biden on the progress of Israel’s ongoing military operation against terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, which the military says have launched more...
A car set on fire during anti-Jewish riots in Acre, northern Israel, May 12, 2021. Photo by Roni Ofer/Flash90.

Facing the real cause of the long Arab war

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The time has come for Israel to stop giving a pass to Arab Jew-hatred. In his book From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, the late historian Robert Wistrich documented how before, during...
Rockets are launched towards Israel from Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, early on May 12, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Iran’s role in Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be ‘overlooked,’ say Mideast experts

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The escalating conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians is one of the first major policy tests for the Biden administration. Despite U.S. President Joe Biden’s hope to shift foreign policy away from the Middle East...
U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Credit: White House/Flickr.

If current Mideast violence a test, some experts say Biden is failing

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The Biden administration has come under withering criticism in the United States and Israel for its poor handling of the current situation in the Middle East. On Tuesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price failed...