A Return to the Iran Nuclear Deal Would Increase the Chances of War
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Report} For the third time in 2021, the US recently flew B-52 bombers along the Iranian coast, in what The Wall Street Journal called “a…
Will Riyadh, Manama be Iran’s next targets?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} It has been seven years since an Iranian member of parliament, who reportedly was close to the Supreme Leader, claimed Iran already controlled four Arab capitals.…
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…
Is it true that normalization doesn’t improve Israel’s existential problem?
{Previously published by the JNS} Hadar Susskind, the president and CEO of Americans for Peace Now, penned an article in JTA titled, “Normalizing relations with the UAE does nothing to help fix…
What does pro-Israel mean in the age of Trump?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} The term “pro-Israel” has become has become a lightning rod, due in part to President Donald Trump’s many self-described pro-Israel statements and actions, and…
Are Beinart and Rogen the handwriting on the wall for Diaspora Jewry?
{Previously published by the JNS} Much has been written about Peter Beinart’s recent article “I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State” and Seth Rogen’s simplistic ill-informed podcast delegitimizing the…
Editorialized news reporting is worse now than the Bari Weiss controversy
In 2016, James Rutenberg, the media reporter for The New York Times, wrote, “You have to throw out the textbook [of] American journalism…. You would move closer than you’ve ever been…
Why Palestinians can’t sign an end-of-conflict pact
Palestinian Arabs cannot sign an agreement that ends all claims and recognizes the right of a Jewish state to exist and live unmolested on land that was ever Muslim. According…
Will annexation embolden Iran?
{Previously published in The Jerusalem Post} Could the ramifications of annexation reverberate from an exclusively Israeli-Palestinian issue, into one with regional implications that could lead to a large-scale war? Does…
The case for the status quo in Judea and Samaria
{Previously published in the Jerusalem Post} Supporters of extending Israeli sovereignty to 30% of the West Bank claim this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to permanently create defensible borders and…