Washington made it clear over the summer that it disapproved of Israel’s indirect negotiations with Syria. There were many reasons to believe the talks would be inconclusive, but could provide political capital for the Assad regime, particularly if Israel asked…
Dennis Ross, President Clinton’s Middle East envoy, is now speaking on behalf of Senator Obama on issues of Middle East security. In a recent interview, he addressed key issues of concern to JINSA readers.
According to Middle East Newsline [MENL], Israel, under U.S. pressure, has created a plan for the Palestinian Authority (PA) to take over security responsibility throughout the West Bank in 2009, as Israel commits to withdrawing from the territories. The IDF…
Reuters reported in August that Americans drove 12.2 billion miles fewer miles less in June 2008 than they did in June 2007; the eighth month in a row that driving declined and essentially erasing five years of growth in gasoline…
If there were elephants in the Levant, they would be in Gaza – or maybe they are in Gaza, but no one will talk about the implications of having them there. Certainly they wouldn’t be the only thing with implications…
JINSA has commented over time about the American military mission to train Palestinian security forces. Under Oslo, the Palestinians were supposed to be police; counter-terrorism was left to the IDF. Training stopped during the second Intifada, but resumed in 2005.…
Ed. Note: This is one in a series of observations from the 26th JINSA Flag & General Officers Trip to Israel that took place in September.
While all eyes were on the economy, the Senate made a rare, farsighted and bipartisan move, voting 86-13 to approve the deal lifting a ban on civilian nuclear trade with India that dates from New Delhi’s first nuclear test explosion…
The IAEA has finally thrown in the towel on Iran’s nuclear project – admitting that it has no answers to its questions, no idea where the uranium went and no hope of cooperation from the Mullahs. At the same time,…
Thank you. Never have we received as much supportive e-mail as we did last Friday – both for JINSA Report #811 and for Tom Neumann’s letter to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, of which we currently…