Qatar is positioning itself to be a central player in Gaza’s high-stakes future. Yet the United States granting Doha such a role would be deeply unwise. Qatar’s century-long evolution from irrelevant backwater to hyper-wealthy energy exporter has given it the resources…
Click here to read a transcript. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s ongoing U.S. visit is already making headlines. President Donald Trump announced his intention to make Saudi Arabia among the first non-NATO countries to receive U.S. F-35 combat aircraft,…
Click here to read a transcript. On September 9, Israel struck Hamas’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar, marking the first known Israeli military operation within Qatar’s borders. Operation Summit of Fire targeted Hamas’s most senior leaders, including Khalil al-Hayya, and ended…
Click here to read a transcript. Israel’s daring June campaign against Iran saw numerous successes, including the major degradation of Iran’s military assets and nuclear program. Receiving less attention but just as significant was another extraordinary achievement: the highly successful…
Excerpt Below: Iran’s missile attack against the Al Udeid U.S. Air Force base in Qatar reveals an inconvenient fact: The U.S. base there is a military liability. Worse, it is also a political liability, granting Qatar, with its anti-American agenda, too much…
Operation Midnight Hammer, the monumental U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities on June 21, made history several times over. The operation represented the first-ever known American airstrikes inside the Islamic Republic of Iran; the first use of America’s GBU-57 bunker-buster…
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…
Overnight, the Israel Defense Forces began conducting strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities and senior Iranian officials. The preemptive attack kicks off Operation Rising Lion, which Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “military operation to roll back the Iranian threat…
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…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2025 Contact: Blake Johnson bjohnson@jinsa.org Twitter/X: @ItsBlakeJohnson Washington, DC – Israel has launched preemptive strikes against the Iranian regime. Michael Makovsky, President and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America issued the…