Bellicose threats directed at Israel by the Turkish government delivered over the past two months are extremely disturbing and demand an American response. Never before in the history of the alliance has a NATO member used such strident and threatening…
The Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Independence is a cynical ploy that bypasses the necessary requirement for direct negotiations between the Palestinian leadership and the Government of Israel. Despite a last-minute scramble by the White House intending to delay this action,…
A Special JINSA Report by Steve Pomerantz, JINSA Director for Counter-Terror Programs. Mr. Pomerantz was a career FBI Agent who retired as Assistant Director.
The Palmer Report, the UN review of the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident, largely vindicated Israel. Most importantly, it declared Israel’s blockade of Gaza to be legal and questioned the true intentions of the flotilla organizers, particularly the IHH, an Islamic…
Events in Israel over the past week have a “back to the future” vibe. Terrorism from over the Egyptian border, renewed rocket attacks from Gaza, threats of violence from the Palestinian Authority and Hezbollah, continuing violence in Syria and shock…
The President of Honduras has indicated that his government will support a vote in favor of “Palestine” in the United Nations General Assembly in September. Honduras, of all countries, should know better; not about Israel, but about importance of truth.
Political betting in Washington is that President Obama is preparing to demand that Syrian strongman Bashar Assad step down. After the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Bahrainis and Omanis – those bastions of human rights and civil liberties – withdrew their ambassadors from…
Having written that “the mission” is what counts when sending American soldiers to protect, to fight and sometimes to die on our behalf, readers challenged us to define the mission in Afghanistan. We tried. Going back to the beginning of…
They are all special forces; every American killed in service to our country is a special force. There have been 1,725 Americans killed in Afghanistan and 11,541 wounded (3,649 not returning to duty within 72 hours) before Saturday. But actual…
A CNN interactive map divides the breadth of upheaval in the Arab Middle East, the Persian Gulf and North Africa into categories.