After Abbas; The Coming War of Palestinian Succession
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Report, the magazine of The Jerusalem Post} The advantage of a new year is that it offers us an opportunity to understand better the previous…
Democratic Think Tanks on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
{Previously published by The JNS} If you want to know what the incoming Biden administration thinks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, read the analysis of Democratic think tanks. A new report…
A Public Service: Dissecting a ‘NYT’ Article on Israel
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Report (The Magazine of The Jerusalem Post} At first glance, the New York Times news article “For Netanyahu and Israel, Trump’s Gifts Kept on Coming”…
Thoughts on Yesterday’s Capitol Riots
I did something yesterday afternoon that I never thought was possible. I was interviewed by a foreign media outlet* that asked me to explain why rioters entered the Capitol of…
Normalizations Must Be Nurtured and Act as a Model for Other Nations
{Previously published in The Israel Gulf Report} During a visit to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, and Dubai two years ago, it became clear to me that the people and leadership of…
Do America’s Iran experts understand today’s Iran and its goals?
Ken Pollack, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute said, “For many years, I have assured people that it is easy to be an expert on Iran because there…
Analyzing Trump’s Middle East Peace
Chronicling latest attempt to untie Gordian knot of the ongoing conflict. {Published previously by The Jerusalem Post} Israel’s normalization of relations with Arab Gulf countries occurring before a resolution of…
The Challenges for American and Israeli Democracy
{Previously published by the JNS} The 2020 presidential election brought America’s fractured society into focus, as America is deciding whether to discard or restore its core societal values for the…
How should Netanyahu approach the new Biden administration?
{Previously published by the JNS} In the winter of 2015, one of Israel’s most senior security cabinet officials asked me what advice should he give to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Is it too late to salvage the US and Israeli-Jewish relationship?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} There was a time when religious and non-religious Jews, capitalists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and Israelis, looked past their differences and political…