Israel’s Self-Destructive PR Must Change in its Next Government
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Wouldn’t be great if Isrotel worked with StandWithUs like El Al, to empower their employees, helping them to realize they are the face of…
A Year of Weaponized Words, Antisemitism, and Revisionist History
{Previously Published in The Jerusalem Post} Another misused word directed at Israel is the charge of apartheid. Anyone opening up a real dictionary would see that the true meaning of…
Israel’s Self-Inflicted Black Eye
{Previously published in the JNS} If Israel had better control of its foreign-policy public relations, lemonade could have been made out of lemons. Instead, the harsh critics of American mainstream…
What Freshman Members of Congress Should Learn on Their Trip to Israel
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} How does one reconcile this moral dilemma if you believe Israel has a right to exist as the home of the Jewish people but…
Israelis and Arabs Say One Thing in Public and Another Behind Closed Doors. Politicians and Pundits Need to Understand the Difference.
{Previously published in the JTA} By the end of this year, my research and travels in the Middle East will have brought me through Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Israel, the…
Hezbollah’s Largest Attack Tunnel and its Financial Supporters
{Previously published in the JNS} The significance of the Hezbollah tunnel is clear. It is just one element of the multi-dimensional, long-term Iranian strategy to threaten and eventually destroy Israel,…
The Question Israel’s Leaders Ask Every Day: Will Tomorrow be Too Late?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Critics of any pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities rightly claim that Israel cannot totally destroy the Iranian nuclear program. But that misses the…
IS IT TOO LATE TO STOP IRAN’S PERMANENT PRESENCE IN SYRIA?
{Previously published in the Jerusalem Post} Iran has invested tens of billions of dollars in Syria, and is not about to readily abandon this investment to Russian pressure. The national…
Is Peaceful Regime Change in Iran Possible?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} According to the research of Harvard’s Erica Chenoweth, more than half of nonviolent revolutions are successful, as long as more than 3.5% of the…
Reclaiming the Language of Human Rights to Advance Peace in the Middle East
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} While speaking in Europe last week on political Islamism, the Iran agreement, and American national security interests in the Middle East, I continually emphasized…