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Tweet Share Share Comment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address to Congress on Wednesday that said...
Tweet Share Share Comment Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington all week, and so far, the trip has been a...
Tweet Share Share Comment In the end it came as no surprise, but it delivered a shock all the same: Joe Biden issued a letter on...
Tweet Share Share Comment Around 12 a.m. on Friday, soon after Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention stem-winder...
Tweet Share Share Comment The most disturbing spectacle on Wednesday, the third night of the Republican National Convention, was...
Tweet Share Share Comment President Joe Biden did pretty well at his press conference Thursday night, and that may have...
Tweet Share Share Comment If Joe Biden is inclined to step aside as president (granted, a big if), don’t expect him to do so...
Tweet Share Share Comment Here’s an idea for how the Democrats can snap out of the nightmare brought on by Thursday’s debate...
Tweet Share Share Comment A few years ago—maybe even a few months ago—President Joe Biden could have waxed eloquent on...
Tweet Share Share Comment Julian Assange—the founder of WikiLeaks, who has spent the past five years in a British prison...
Tweet Share Share Comment Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter held in a Moscow prison on charges of espionage for...
Tweet Share Share Comment Judging from reports of Hamas’ counteroffer to the U.N.–backed peace proposal, an end to the war...
Tweet Share Share Comment There’s some confusion over the Israeli peace proposal, which President Joe Biden publicized, the...
Tweet Share Share Comment For the first time since President Joe Biden gave them permission to do so, Ukrainian soldiers have...
Tweet Share Share Comment Contrary to recent news reports, an Israel-Hamas peace isn’t quite on the verge of happening after...
Tweet Share Share Comment The decision by Norway, Ireland, and Spain to recognize a Palestinian state is a symbolic gesture, but...
Tweet Share Share Comment The Israeli war Cabinet is in raucous disarray. One of its three members, who is also the minister of...
Tweet Share Share Comment The problem with all the peace plans for Gaza that U.S., Egyptian, and other foreign diplomats have offered in the past...
Tweet Share Share Comment I would watch a show where Tucker Carlson interviews Brittney Griner. It might be fun to see the...
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...