The Israeli Air Force struck Houthi-controlled infrastructure on Tuesday as its planes flattened the airport in Sanaa, a day after Israeli jets pounded the port city of Hodeida. Then, US President Donald Trump dropped his own bombshell. Without coordinating with…
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…
When President Trump hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel at the White House in early April, a reporter reminded Mr. Trump that his 2024 campaign promise to end the war in Gaza remained unfulfilled. Israel had recently broken a…
The third round of talks on Iran’s nuclear program will take place in Oman on Saturday as the United States hopes to restrain the Islamic Republic through negotiations. The talks have garnered mixed reactions from Israel supporters, with some calling…
If speakers on the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem’s “U.S. Israel Relations: A New Day” panel agreed on one thing, it was that the Trump administration was a vast improvement over that of former U.S. President Joe Biden. The…
Characterizing Turkey as a “potentially threatening regional power” led by a “pro-Hamas” president, a new report from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America released on Wednesday argues that Ankara should not be considered for readmission into the F-35 fighter jet…
Turkey wants back into the F-35 program, after having been blocked by the United States from procuring and producing the American F-35 fifth generation fighter in 2019. The decision to block came after numerous warnings to Turkey over its…
JINSA President and CEO Michael Makovsky, PhD spoke at the JNS International Policy Summit in Jerusalem on April 28, appearing alongside other leading policy experts on a panel to discuss U.S.-Israel relations. Dr. Makovsky spoke about the ongoing U.S.…
The Trump administration tapped Michael Anton, the State Department’s director of policy planning, to lead a team of technical experts in negotiations with the Iranian regime about its nuclear program. According to Politico, Anton will lead a team of around…