Jonathan Ruhe, Director of Foreign Policy at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, discussed Donald Trump’s remarks after meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the challenges of reconstruction of Gaza, and Trump’s executive order reinstating a…
It’s a trap. President Donald Trump loves making deals but there is no deal to be had with Iran on its nuclear program, just dead-end negotiations. Instead, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington this week, the deal he should make is with…
Michael Makovsky, PhD, President and CEO of JINSA, joined LiveNOW from FOX to talk about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the White House and Middle East policy priorities in the Trump administration.
Israel’s multifront war has seemingly reached a critical turning point. The tenuous Gaza ceasefire largely continues to hold roughly two weeks in, but the future of the agreement, and of Gaza itself, remains uncertain. Meanwhile, the equally fragile Lebanon ceasefire…
Introducing his conversation on Thursday with Tomáš Pojar, the national security adviser to the Czech prime minister and government, Michael Makovsky, the president and CEO of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, referred to the Czech Republic as…
Senate Republicans indicated last week that they had reservations about the prospect of a new round of talks and a potential new nuclear deal with Iran, a prospect that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) floated at his confirmation hearing to be…
News that Israel and Hamas have finally signed a deal was met with an international sigh of relief on Friday as it could mean the return of all remaining hostages who have long been held in unconscionable conditions, as well…
On January 15, a hostage and ceasefire deal was reached to halt hostilities in the Gaza Strip following months of painstaking negotiations and Israeli military successes against Hamas. The deal reportedly involves the release of hostages from Hamas captivity in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet was expected to vote Thursday on a ceasefire deal with Hamas, while Palestinian medics said Israeli forces carried out multiple deadly airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. If the multiphase ceasefire gets final approval, it…
Just because they could, they did. That is the gist of a recent New York Times article suggesting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made a deliberate decision to green-light increased civilian casualties. But this narrative is based on dubious inferences divorced from the realities of…