August 20, 2021

A Jewish Message to the Terrorists of the World

This week, Jews all around the world will read a portion of Deuteronomy that calls to remember an incident that occurred over 3,000 years ago.  It involved a belligerent enemy whose name would have been erased from history were it not prese...

August 27, 2016

Obama’s Iran Strategy Creates Support for the Islamic State

Despite the obvious fallacy in Donald Trump’s recent statement that President Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton were the “founders of ISIS”, Hudson Institute scholar Michael Doran’s February 2, 2015 es...

June 24, 2016

The Fallacies Undergirding the Current US Policy toward Iran

For the past thirty-seven years the United States of America has been approaching its policies toward the Islamic Republic of Iran with an almost messianic hope that the Khomeinist government of Iran can be weaned away from its anti-Western stance by...

June 12, 2015

Textbooks tell the tale: Iran's apocalyptic vision

Recently, Yoram Ettinger, a retired Israeli ambassador, published an article in Israel Hayom entitled “Iran’s School Textbooks – Can Congress afford to ignore it?”  The article provides evidence suggesting that Iran, unde...

April 4, 2015

An Iranian Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Dr. Mansour Salsabili is the author of an article in The National Interest entitled "How Iran Became the Middle East's Moderate Force."  There, Salsabili claims that Iran, under Ali Khamenei's leadership, has changed radically ...

March 3, 2015

Why Prime Minister Netanyahu should address the U.S. Congress on Iran

For the last several weeks, the American and the Israeli national press, as well as the American Jewish press, have debated the wisdom of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to accept House Speaker John Boehner’s invitati...

June 22, 2014

Fox in the Henhouse: Obama's Newest Middle-East Mistake

The recent major offensive of the Sunni Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) jihadis upon Mosul and central Iraq and subsequent drive towards Baghdad, with the goal of a theoretical toppling of the regime of the Shiite Nouri al-Maliki, has served a...

September 1, 2013

Message to Jerusalem: Don't Rely on American Security

The current Palestinian-Israeli peace talks have brought the question of security arrangements to the fore.  Although it is quite early in the process, suggestions have already been floated that propose an American presence in the West Bank in o...

June 21, 2013

Shai Franklin's Distorted Discourse on Iranian Dissidents

On Monday, June 17, 2013, Shai Franklin, currently senior fellow for United Nations Affairs at the Institute on Religion and Public Affairs, penned a critique for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency entitled "Stop pretending to care about Iranians' rights....

June 18, 2013

Understanding Hassan Rouhani's Election as Iran's President

Dr. Hassan Feridon Rouhani's victory in the June 14, 2013 Iranian presidential election took many by surprise -- not least of all the Iranian regime's leadership, including the faqih, Supreme Leader Sayeed Ali Khamenei.  The question that challe...

June 12, 2013

Crystal Ball on Iran's Presidential Election

On Friday, June 14, Iranians will go to the polls to elect a new president for a four-year term. Out of a field of 686 applicants, which included 30 women, the twelve-member Guardian Council that vets all candidates cut the number down to eight men t...

May 16, 2013

Syria: A Case of Humpty Dumpty

Syria today is a nation-state that is in the midst of a terrible civil war in which some 82,0001 of her citizens have died in the last twenty-eight months.  Although the Sunni rebels have made impressive gains and bloodied the regime of Bashir a...

September 30, 2012

Deciphering Iran's Nuclear Intentions

In the last half-year, the public chatter about the Iranian nuclear program has grown to a daily splurge of articles worldwide.  The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times crowd their reports with this or that pundit's sp...

September 5, 2012

Madeleine Albright: Still Clueless about Some Women's Legal Rights

Nearly fifteen years after she signed an order designating the female-led Iranian resistance organization Mojahedin-e Khalq (aka People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) as a foreign terrorist organization -- this being part of a politically motivate...

August 19, 2012

Shame on Senator Frank R. Lautenberg!

New Jersey's senior U.S. senator, Frank R. Lautenberg, published an article ("Romney must stop playing politics with Israel") in the August 15, 2012 edition of The Jerusalem Post for which he should be thoroughly ashamed.  It is a political smea...

March 18, 2012

State Department Uses Josh Rogin to Justify Bogus Blacklisting of MEK

Last week, the United States Department of State stooped to a new low in its attempt to justify its nearly fifteen-year-old misguided policy of regarding the pro-secular, pro-democracy Iranian resistance organization known as the Mojahedin e-Khalq (M...

November 6, 2011

How to Spook the Islamists in Iran

A few weeks ago, news broke of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in a Hezbollah-like operation run by Qods Force operatives.  According to the plot, a truck loaded with high explosives would be deto...

July 5, 2011

Palestine vs. Israel: Pinning the 'Apartheid' Label on the Right Donkey

In recent years, Palestinian propagandists and their international supporters have attempted to brand Israel with the label of "apartheid," the despicable South African policy of racial discrimination that reduced the African non-white populatio...

April 18, 2011

U.S. Middle-East Policy in Disarray

Apparently Washington, D.C. has only recently come to realize that U.S.-Middle East policy is in tatters.  The degree of disarray still seems to be hidden from those charged with administering such a policy: the State Department.  Neither t...

January 16, 2011

The State Department's Israel End-Run

Under Barack Obama, America's relationship with Israel has taken on the character of a petulant teenager dealing with a parent. Early on January 2, 2011, Israel's liberal newspaper, Haaretz, reported that U.S. President Barack H. Obama and Secretary ...

May 22, 2010

Outside the Box Method to Stop Iran's Nuclear Drive

The most recent estimates concerning Iran's nuclear program suggest that Iran will have mastered the process of making a bomb within the year and will actually be able to possess such a bomb within three years. The possibility that these estimates ar...

April 8, 2010

Would a Palestinian State Solve America's Middle East Problems?

Given the current view espoused in much of the media that the Palestinian-Israeli squabble is the root of all or much of America's poor image in the Arab world, we might want to examine whether creating a Palestinian state -- in whichever form of bor...

March 29, 2010

The Roots of Washington's Failures in Dealing with Rogue Regimes

The United States has had a lousy track record in dealing with rogue regimes for at least the past three decades. There are very few successes that Washington can claim in its attempts to wean such rogue states back into the council of civility, espe...

February 22, 2010

What Iran Sanctions Won't Do and What They Can Do

[see also Time for America to Act on Iran]President Obama recently promised strict and biting sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran for its continued refusal to curtail its nuclear program or even to enter serious negotiations. Such sanctions, an...