For much of the 19th century, Americans thought that the broad expanses of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans protected our homeland from enemy attack. They believed that the United States was blessed with what historian C. Vann Woodward dubbed “free…
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…
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…
Excerpt below: If he continues his current negotiating approach with Iran, President Trump risks being the second coming of Barack Obama. Thanks to fantastic Israeli military achievements, Trump inherited unprecedented leverage to drive a hard bargain with Iran over its…
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 U.S. military has been bombing Yemen for weeks on end, executing hundreds of strikes this month alone. Why it matters: The standoff between American forces and Houthi rebels backed by Iran risks something President Trump promised to stamp out: endless war. In this case,…