Trump struggles to balance looking tough on Iran with reticence to involve U.S. in conflicts abroad By Anne Gearan President Trump considered military strikes against Iran and then called them off at close to the last minute Thursday evening —…
Trump says he aborted retaliatory strike to spare Iranian lives Jeff Mason, Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he aborted a military strike to retaliate for Iran’s downing of an unmanned U.S. drone because…
Are Iran and Hezbollah turning Venezuela into their ‘forward operating base’ in the Western Hemisphere? By Sean Savage The ongoing instability in Venezuela under dictator Nicolás Maduro has continued the misery and suffering of tens of millions of Venezuelans. A…
AJC Panel: Combating Hezbollah’s Terror Tactics By Aaron Bandler, Jewish Journal What are Hezbollah’s terror aspirations and how can we combat them? This was the topic of a panel hosted by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) Los Angeles in partnership…
Israel experts are praising President Trump’s move this week to recognize the country’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights as a sign that the U.S. is not retreating from its earlier focus on Syria. “It reasserts some U.S. primacy especially in…
It has almost been one year since the start of the Gaza-Israel border uprisings that left 189 Palestinians dead in a monthslong rash of violent demonstrations demanding an end to the blockade on Gaza and the right to return to…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and experts in military affairs on Monday castigated a new United Nations report that suggests Israel committed war crimes while responding to violent Palestinian demonstrations at the Gaza Strip border last year. The report, produced…
Declaring the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) policy toward Israel to be anti-Semitic, the United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell denounced the council’s “singular, obsessive focus” on the Jewish State in a speech he gave Monday in Geneva.…
Sen. Ted Cruz criticized a United Nations report that concluded Israel committed war crimes against Palestinians during a 2018 protest despite Hamas’s use of human shields. “This U.N. report is on its face absurd and dishonest and we know because…
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) called a United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report accusing Israel of war crimes at the Gaza border “absurd and dishonest.” The U.N. Commission of Inquiry submitted a report to the UNHRC on March 18 concluding…