The Supreme Court last week vindicated a common-sense principle: Foreign entities that kill Americans abroad through acts of terror can be held to account in American courts. Fuld v. PLO marks a turning point in a long legal saga. In 2004…
President Donald Trump had the authority to order attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities without seeking congressional approval first. The claim to the contrary by several members of Congress contradicts decades of U.S. practice involving similar military deployments. Although the Constitution reserves to Congress the right…
Can Israel destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facility at Fordow? That question is central to the debate about Israel’s ability to knock out Iran’s nuclear program, and whether the United States should join in. It turns out that is the wrong…
Excerpt Below: Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, which began early Friday, June 13, are lawful, contrary to the expressed views of various commentators and politicians, including Senator Bernie Sanders. Several of these commentators have based their contention that…
Israel’s strikes on the heart of Iran’s regime are already shaping up as one of the most ambitious and effective campaigns by a military long known for operational daring and excellence. By trying to forestall an existential threat to itself,…
By attacking Iran’s nuclear program, Israel has acted to uphold what five successive American presidents from both parties, including President Donald Trump, have identified as a vital national interest of the United States. Now is the time for Washington to leave…
President Trump’s deadline for a deal to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program is fast approaching. Without a credible military threat, if Tehran fails to comply, the regime will confidently wait out the United States, call the president’s bluff and angle for a dangerously one-sided agreement.…
Amid all the high-profile trade and investment agreements proclaimed by President Trump on his swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates last week, he let slip that “Iran has sort of agreed to the terms” of a nuclear agreement presented…
For much of the 19th century, Americans thought that the broad expanses of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans protected our homeland from enemy attack. They believed that the United States was blessed with what historian C. Vann Woodward dubbed “free…
Excerpt below: If he continues his current negotiating approach with Iran, President Trump risks being the second coming of Barack Obama. Thanks to fantastic Israeli military achievements, Trump inherited unprecedented leverage to drive a hard bargain with Iran over its…