11/01/2019
US President Donald Trump’s many critics insist he has no idea what he is doing in Syria. The assassination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi over the weekend by US Special Forces showed this criticism is misplaced. Trump has a very good idea of what he is doing in Syria, not only regarding ISIS, but regarding the diverse competing actors…
10/11/2019
The near consensus view of President Donald Trump’s decision to remove US special forces from the Syrian border with Turkey is that Trump is enabling a Turkish invasion and double crossing the Syrian Kurds who have fought with the Americans for five years against ISIS. Trump’s move, the thinking goes, harms US credibility and undermines US power in the…
10/04/2019
On September 29, President Donald Trump set out his nationalist political philosophy in his address before the UN General Assembly. Arguing that the nation-state is the best guarantor of human freedom and liberty, Trump set up a contrast between “patriots” and “globalists.” “The future does not belong to globalists,” he said. “The future belongs to patriots. The future belongs…
09/20/2019
When Israel Beitenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman abruptly resigned his position as Defense Minister last November and started the countdown to the Knesset elections in April, he plunged Israel into a state of political instability. Following the April elections, by refusing to serve in a government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and so forcing Israel into a second election,…
09/13/2019
US National Security Advisor John Bolton’s departure from the White House has been the source of considerable concern in Israel. For decades, the veteran diplomat and former UN ambassador has been among the most powerful supporters of a strong US-Israel alliance in Washington. During his tenure as President Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor, Bolton worked steadily on expanding US-Israel…
11/21/2017
Full Interview Interview Excerpts: The State Department Direction = Failure The US Consulate in Jerusalem is the Mirror Image of the PLO Office The Embassy – Consulate Solution
09/27/2017
I was live with Avi Abelow in my dining room discussing the latest terror attack against the backdrop of the new accord between Hamas and the PLO and US envoy Jason Greenblatt’s visit. We also discussed the Kurdish independence referendum as well as the rise of the far right in Germany.
09/20/2017
In my weekly video talk with Avi Abelow we discuss the recent discourse surrounding President Trumps dealing with North Korea. While many people are responding by saying that any military strike on North Korea would bring dead Koreans, and can not be considered, John Bolton asks these people in return “well what about dead Americans” from a nuclear North Korea?…
