The State Department’s announcement Tuesday of a sanctions waiver that will allow Iran to access blocked funds in Japan and South Korea was the latest in a string of decisions indicating that President Biden’s foreign policy team is afflicted with…
In the wake of a tenuous ceasefire in Gaza, the Biden administration made several blunders last week that undermine the prospects for Middle East peace. By undercutting Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem, pursuing payment schemes to the Palestinians that embolden terror,…
It’s a war on language and a war on history. What does the word “apartheid” mean? Where did it get its terrible reputation? It was the term in Afrikaans for the systemic setting apart of the races by means of…
“Israel is a colonial, apartheid regime,” an “international crime,” said Lubnah Shomali, the advocacy manager for the Bethlehem-based Palestinian “refugee” organization BADIL during a May 10 Middle East Institute (MEI) webinar. Entitled “The Palestinian Nakba: What Happened in 1948 and…
Nazi hyperbole has infected our political talk for so long that it takes something special to make another instance of it noteworthy. Leave it to the Palestinian Authority (PA) mouthpieces to come up with a truly gasp-worthy Nazi accusation. The…
Human rights are under siege in many nations. Three of the world’s most important countries, China, Russia, and India, are moving backward on political freedom, though the last at least still holds free elections. All three also are increasingly violating…
What a disaster! And it’s only just begun — if we cannot do something to stop it. Iran is up off the floor, regaining confidence in the strength of its bargaining position, restored to it as a free gift by…
Thanks to the Abraham Accords brokered by the Trump administration, we are witnessing a tectonic shift in the Muslim world. The UAE, Bahrain, Kosovo, Sudan, and Morocco have normalized relations with Israel and recognized the Jewish people’s right to self-determination….
Today, senior diplomats from the European Union, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Russia, France, Germany, and China meet in Vienna, home of Mozart and Beethoven, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and many magnificent churches built during the Habsburg Monarchy. Against this elegant…