The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria at the end of 2024 may have removed a brutal dictator and dislodged Iran, but serious questions remain regarding the motivations and the new government. Led by Ahmad al-Sharaa, commander of the…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 5, 2025 Contact: Blake Johnson bjohnson@jinsa.org Twitter/X: @ItsBlakeJohnson Washington, DC – The Israeli-U.S. Gaza humanitarian assistance strategy, approved by the Israeli government today, as publicly described, appears to borrow heavily from the two key recommendations contained…
Excerpt below: This past July, Geoffrey Corn, a law professor at Texas Tech and a former judge advocate general in the U.S. Army, joined the Israel Defense Forces on a tour of the Rafah border. Within hours of Hamas’s attack,…
The Trump administration risks repeating the mistakes of Obama and Biden in reaching a deal with Tehran. The United States and Iran have now had two rounds of talks on a potential deal over Iran’s nuclear weapons program, with a…
As U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations plod into their third week, the Trump administration has split publicly between demanding full dismantlement and conceding compromises on Iran’s enrichment program. Amid recent reports the White House seeks to forestall Israeli military action, this raises…
During one of the most turbulent periods in Israel’s history, Ambassador Michael Herzog served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States from November 2021 to January 2025. His tenure spanned the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7 massacre, a prolonged war…
America’s gloves are finally coming off against the Houthis. That is good news, not just for restoring freedom of navigation through the Red Sea but also for sending a message to US competitors — China, Iran, and Russia — who,…
The U.S. military is concentrating major firepower around the Middle East, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss the shared challenge – and opportunity – of rolling back Tehran’s…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 9, 2025 Washington, DC – With incredibly long odds of achieving a diplomatic solution that actually ends Iran’s nuclear program, and with Israel intent on exercising a military option, a new report says time has run…
Anti-tank missiles in garages and artillery stashed in children’s bedrooms. Weapons stockpiled in nearly every house. This was the scene one of us encountered, in village after village in southern Lebanon, during the October 2024 ground operation of the Israel…