Ignore Trump’s Gaza distraction. Focus on Iran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump, the first post-inaugural White House visit by a foreign leader, could shape the Middle East for generations. Pre-meeting speculation centered on how the leaders would handle the Hamas-Israel war. Stunningly, Trump’s comments just before and then after his meeting with Netanyahu focused on the U.S. […]

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Presidents Expect Loyalty. Trump Demands Fealty.

Mr. Bolton was the longest-serving national security adviser in the first Trump administration and an assistant attorney general for the civil division at the Justice Department in the Reagan administration. He is the author of “The Room Where It Happened.” Four years ago this Monday, Donald Trump pressured Mike Pence to pursue a surreal interpretation […]

A U.N. Reform Plan for Trump and Stefanik

The new administration should reject mandatory ‘assessments’ and fund only programs that work.Elise Stefanik, Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has her work cut out for her. Fortunately, she’s already aware of the U.N.’s flaws. In a September op-ed for the Washington Examiner, she applauded Mr. Trump for withdrawing from the “corrupt and antisemitic” […]

The Fall of Assad

History is moving fast in the Middle East, raising the possibility, for well or ill, of massive changes throughout the region.  The collapse of Syria’s Assad-family dictatorship took everyone by surprise, starting with Bashar al-Assad himself, and certainly including Russia and Iran.  Arab and Western intelligence services missed the regime’s vulnerability, particularly the weakness and […]

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