09/16/2022
The Biden administration is indicating now that its nuclear deal with Iran will not be concluded until after the midterm elections. This, even as the IAEA reported last week that Iran needs to be considered a nuclear threshold state, because it can currently build a nuclear bomb independently at will.Israel’s security brass, for its part is beginning to discuss the…
09/09/2022
For four months, no one could explain the Biden administration’s seeming obsession with forcing Israel to accept responsibility for the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11. Abu Akleh was killed in Jenin during a gun battle between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists, with whom she was embedded, and IDF forces. The battle occurred in the aftermath of…
09/09/2022
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused to meet with either Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz or National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata when they visited Washington last week to discuss the dangers the administration’s deal with Iran poses to Israel. Instead, Blinken sent his deputy, Wendy Sherman, to meet with Hulata. And from the State Department’s press release of the…
09/09/2022
Imagine if a former close associate of the U.S. Treasury secretary filed a complaint with the FBI alleging the secretary offered him a large sum of money to murder a police commissioner, but the FBI ignored complaints and instead refused to investigate the allegation? This is precisely what just happened in Israel. On August 31, Yossi Kamisa, a former associate of Israeli…
09/05/2022
Assuming that President Joe Biden concludes his deal with Iran, as now seems all but certain, Israel cannot expect any significant assistance from the United States, regardless of the results of the midterm elections, in diminishing the dangers, or changing American policy in any substantive way until after a different president is in the Oval Office. And if concrete measures…
08/28/2022
As news came out last week that the U.S. and Iran are on the verge of concluding a new nuclear deal, Israelis were given two very different interpretations of events. Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, along with their media flacks responded by insisting that although the deal is bad, Lapid and Gantz are handling it…
08/28/2022
A year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Americans are still licking their wounds. Last year President Joe Biden’s demanded that the all U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan by an artificial timeline. He disregarded the Afghans who fought with them for twenty years. He abandoned $90 billion in weapons to the Taliban. He left Bagram Air Force Base and the…
08/18/2022
The Biden administration is on the verge of closing its long-sought for nuclear agreement with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Europeans distributed a “final draft” of an agreement to the Americans and the Iranians last week. While the text was billed as a “take it or leave it” offer, neither the Europeans nor the Americans walked away after Iran…
08/18/2022
One of the most stunning phenomena to have arisen in recent years is the one to one parallel between the politicization and corruption of the legal fraternity in Israel, including the Attorney General, the state prosecution and the court system, and the politicization and corruption of the FBI and the Department of Justice in the United States. In both cases,…
08/12/2022
Following a week of dramatic events ranging from Israel’s 3-day campaign against the Palestinians, the FBI raid of former president Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach to Russia’s launch of an Iranian satellite against the backdrop of the renewed nuclear appeasement talks in Vienna, to increased cooperation between Israel and Turkey amidst apparent Turkish rapprochement with Iran and Russia, in…