On the day after Election Day, Michael Makovsky, president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, was hopeful President-elect Donald Trump would name Mike Pompeo as his Defense Secretary. A week later, Makovsky called Trump’s Defense Secretary…
Attacks against the U.S. by Iran-linked actors have skyrocketed in the last year with a 630% increase in malign acts since the Hamas terror attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7. 2023, according to a report by the Jewish Institute for National…
Iran and its proxies in Iraq may soon attack Israel in retaliation for it hitting a series of military targets inside of Iranian territory. Although we are still waiting to see if and how Iran responds, Israel’s most recent operation is simply…
JINSA President & CEO Michael Makovsky spoke with LiveNOW from Fox about the nomination of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.
Could private security companies — known as PSCs — play a role in defeating Hamas and kick-starting the transition to a better “day after” in Gaza? Despite PSCs having a checkered history, reports suggest that several key stakeholders, including Israel and the United…
Elliott Abrams, the first Trump administration’s special representative for Iran, and Gabriel Noronha, who previously worked on the Iran file at the State Department, predicted on Friday that President-elect Donald Trump will usher in a more muscular policy toward Iran…
President-elect Donald Trump will be returning to the White House at a critical moment for the Middle East. Iran is on the precipice of nuclear weapons capability and expected to attack Israel directly for the third time in seven months.…
October 31 marked one of the deadliest days for Israel in the current front against Hezbollah, with seven civilians killed in rocket attacks amid reports that ceasefire talks in the north have stalled. Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continues…
As Israel continues to degrade Iranian and Hezbollah capabilities in Lebanon, Syria and Iran itself, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces growing pressure to manage Tehran’s presence within his borders. How will Assad respond to the changing balance of power in…
Recent U.S. decisions to withhold certain arms transfers to Israel, resume others, and the inconsistent reporting around those decisions highlight the challenges of accounting for vital resupplies to help Israel wage an unexpected, prolonged, multifront, munitions-intensive conflict. JINSA has produced…