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Tweet Share Share Comment Before House Speaker Mike Johnson basks too deeply in the praise he’s received for bringing the...
Tweet Share Share Comment A rare bit of calming news from the Middle East: It seems that neither Israel nor Iran wants to widen...
Tweet Share Share Comment Here’s an idea for how Israel could respond to Iran’s massive missile-and-drone strike without...
Tweet Share Share Comment This stands to be a particularly tense week in the Middle East, even by the standards of an already...
Tweet Share Share Comment Some find it telling—and disturbing—that it took the killing of seven World Central Kitchen...
Tweet Share Share Comment Two Israeli air strikes on Tuesday—one killing seven food-aid workers on a convoy in Gaza, another...
Tweet Share Share Comment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could soon be ousted from power by a controversy over the...
Tweet Share Share Comment U.S.–Israel relations have hit an all-time low, and the main cause is the refusal of Prime Minister...
Tweet Share Share Comment It should have been no surprise that the terrorist group known as ISIS was behind Friday night’s...
Tweet Share Share Comment Donald Trump on Sunday said Israel should quickly end the war in Gaza and “get back to the world of...
Tweet Share Share Comment Amid all the calls for an Israeli cease-fire in the war with Gaza, a few key facts are getting short...
Tweet Share Share Comment Sen. Chuck Schumer’s call for new elections in Israel marks a startling turn in the spiraling...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Biden requested more than $1 trillion for national security in the budget that he submitted...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s unusual for a president to start and finish a State of the Union Address on foreign policy, but...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden had hoped to strike a diplomatic deal in the Middle East by this past Monday—an...
Tweet Share Share Comment As the old ditty has it, “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.” It’s a lyric of...
Tweet Share Share Comment Fearing that Donald Trump will pull out of NATO if he’s reelected president, and alarmed that the...
Tweet Share Share Comment I am not a fan of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. If he’s not a Russian spy, he has certainly...
Tweet Share Share Comment Is Tucker Carlson still in Moscow? I wonder if he was lounging in a café with his FSB handlers,...
Tweet Share Share Comment If the Russians are developing a nuclear anti-satellite weapon, as leaked reports from the House...
Tweet Share Share Comment Did Trump just encourage Russia to invade U.S. allies in Europe if they don’t spend more on defense?...
Tweet Share Share Comment It is legitimate, in principle, for a journalist to interview a murderous dictator. The uproar over...
Tweet Share Share Comment Four months into the war between Israel and Hamas, the combatants, their allies, and their neighbors...
Tweet Share Share Comment Maybe it’s because of the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, but few gasps were heard, no jaws...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Biden has been walking a politico-military tightrope since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel...
Tweet Share Share Comment Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many politicians and commentators have rued the day, back...
Tweet Share Share Comment The U.S., Egypt, and Qatar have devised a multistage plan for ending the Israel-Hamas war. One problem...
Tweet Share Share Comment It’s a fool’s game to predict how the array of wars in the Middle East will evolve or end, but one...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Middle East is blowing up. More militias and militaries are launching attacks against more...
Tweet Share Share Comment After the U.S.-British air and naval strikes on Yemen on Thursday night, the Middle East is even...
Tweet Share Share Comment When the terrorist group ISIS took credit for killing 84 Iranians in a two-man suicide bombing last...
Tweet Share Share Comment Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin might well be gone from the Pentagon by the end of the week. A good...
Tweet Share Share Comment An article by Philip Zelikow in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs, titled “The Atrophy of American...
Tweet Share Share Comment It was three months ago—though it feels like three years—when Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
Tweet Share Share Comment Two sets of talks are going on—one in Cairo, one in New York—that might restart a cease-fire in...
Tweet Share Share Comment A new poll shows that Palestinian support for Hamas has grown significantly in the West Bank since the...
Tweet Share Share Comment It was like the breakup scene in a bad rom-com. “It’s got nothing to do with you,” Sen. Lindsey...
Tweet Share Share Comment Sen. Tommy Tuberville dropped his hold on the promotion of more than 400 senior U.S. military officers...
Tweet Share Share Comment The United States and Israel are about to have their biggest, most consequential disagreement in many...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Israel-Hamas hostages-for-prisoners exchange is a more generous deal for Hamas than Prime Minister...
Tweet Share Share Comment In what may be the most stunning case of antisemitic distortion and disinformation in the last six...
Tweet Share Share Comment Wednesday’s meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping went as well as anyone could have...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will meet this Wednesday for what could...
Tweet Share Share Comment One month has passed since the Israel-Hamas war began, and no end seems to be in sight. There are...
Tweet Share Share Comment At a press conference in Tel Aviv on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israeli...
Tweet Share Share Comment Even as the U.S. military faces threats in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Tommy Tuberville—a...
Tweet Share Share Comment Israeli officials are planning to wage war against Hamas for several months to come, without...
Tweet Share Share Comment In a speech during President Biden’s visit to Israel last week, he urged the nation’s military to...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden’s emergency budget request—which totals $105.85 billion—is not only a plea...