Ex-NSC chief: ‘Huge mistake for Biden to drop leverage on Iran’ By YONAH JEREMY BOB The incoming Biden administration may waste sanctions leverage the US has against Iran simply because of an emotional reaction to undo everything the Trump administration…
Does it matter if Israel’s located under US Middle East command structure? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Decades ago, the US decided to create a series of combatant commands for regions of the world. US Central Command became the kind of…
The Caspian Sea As Battleground – Analysis By James M. Dorsey Second Karabakh War as Cause or Consequence? Populated at the time by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry waited back in 1991— in the immediate…
New report urges bipartisan consensus on US aid to Israel, lays out recommendations A report released on Wednesday reaffirms the call for unconditional U.S. assistance to Israel. Coming from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), it opposes…
Middle East Peace Moves Set Off A Frantic Arms Race By GILLIAN RICH A peace deal doesn’t normally trigger an explosion in weapons sales for defense stocks, but this is 2020. A recent diplomatic breakthrough that’s shaking up Middle East…
BDS’s Latest Tool: Anti-Cop Sentiment By Chrissy Clark The anti-Israel movement is capitalizing on anti-police sentiment to expand its boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against the state of Israel. Activists—including university professors—are arguing that the “anti-Black” sentiments in the American…
AIPAC does not oppose F-35 sales to the United Arab Emirates By RON KAMPEAS WASHINGTON (JTA) — The preeminent Israel lobby AIPAC does not oppose the sale of F-35 stealth fighters to the United Arab Emirates — a sign that…
Will Austin’s appointment see Israel move from EUCOM to CENTCOM? By SETH J. FRANTZMAN During testimony before Congress in 2015, Gen. Lloyd Austin, then head of the US Central Command, told members of the House Armed Services Committee that he…
Insight into the Biden foreign policy agenda from a key player By Jennifer Rubin Avril Haines, who would become the first woman to be named director of national intelligence, co-chaired with Eric S. Edelman, the former U.S. ambassador to Turkey,…
Where does Iran’s nuclear weapons program stand now? By Hollie McKay As the dust settles following the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh last Friday, the international community is once again forced to confront the troubling question of where…