Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the face of the Islamic Republic of Iran for eight years. As Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013, he brutally suppressed domestic protests, constantly called for Israel’s destruction, and perversely denied the Holocaust. He played a central role in the formation of the Axis of Resistance, the regional alliance arrayed against Israel, […]
A prominent Jewish American has dispensed a message of tough love to Israel. It is worth listening to. Rahm Emanuel was in Israel earlier this month to deliver a sober and blunt speech at Tel Aviv University about the future of Israel’s relationship with its greatest ally, the United States. “I flew here from Chicago […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was recently in Jeddah to drum up business with Saudi Arabia, a wealthy and influential Arab state. He was the first leader from Canada to visit this oil-rich Arab nation in 26 years. While there, he met Saudi leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and discussed plans to deepen cooperation […]
Graham Platner, the Democratic nominee who was contesting the U.S. Senate race in Maine, was a problematic candidate from the very start, yet his blatant shortcomings were willfully dismissed or ignored by the powers that be in his party. As the news site Axios noted in a prescient observation, he was “a walking time bomb.” […]
The latest tit-for-tat skirmishes between the United States and Iran, plus the bitter war of words these battles have set off, point to one inescapable conclusion. The memorandum of understanding these longtime adversaries signed last month is falling apart and may crumble altogether. As the five-day state funeral of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei […]
The lengthy funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader, has been an elaborate and extended spectacle projecting strength, national unity, stability, continuity and vengeance after two successive wars with the United States and Israel within a year. Iran’s uncompromising message is mainly directed at the U.S., whose military bases in the region it […]
In a decision presumably driven by its currently abysmal relations with Turkey, Israel recently recognized the Armenian genocide. “It’s never too late to do the right thing,” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote on X after the Israeli cabinet unanimously adopted this resolution, which has yet to be approved by the Knesset. Calling the recognition a […]
Three left-wing candidates endorsed by New York’s anti-Zionist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, won Democratic Party primaries on June 23, upending politics in the city and underscoring Israel’s rapidly declining image and standing in the United States. In what was described as a pro-Palestinian sweep, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier won progressive districts in […]
Much to Israel’s detriment, Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir pulled off an asinine and embarrassing stunt that never should have happened. A video he released on May 20, in which he mocked pro-Palestinian detainees from the Freedom Flotilla Coalition as they were manhandled, handcuffed and pinned down on the deck of a ship […]
Israel, the United States’ closest ally in the Middle East, once enjoyed wide bipartisan support among Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress, but that era of goodwill has virtually vanished, much to Israel’s detriment. Israel’s special relationship with the United States in the past few decades has rested on a foundation of bipartisanship and […]