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U.S Foreign Policy
Here We Go ’Round the Cactus Bush
“When the pursuit of peace becomes the entire objective of foreign policy, it becomes a weapon in the hands of the most ruthless. It produces moral disarmament.” —Henry Kissinger Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent announcement that peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians, which are set to resume on Thursday, “should resolve all final-status issues within one year” indicates such... »
Israel’s Elusive Qualitative Military Edge
By: Kyle Shideler, Senior Research Fellow The recent announcement of a proposed $30 billion arms deal to Saudi Arabia, which includes 84 F-15E fighter jets, has once again raised questions on whether the United States is honoring its oft-stated commitment to help maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge (QME). It has long been an unwritten staple of U.S. foreign policy, beginning with President... »
Rewarding Misbehavior
The Obama administration has recently decided to upgrade the diplomatic status of the Palestinian Authority. The PA mission in Washington has been seeking this since President Obama assumed office eighteen months ago, although they have not done very much to earn it. In fact, for the last eighteen years, the Palestinians had met with the Israelis in direct, face-to face... »
Happy Birthday, America
It is with a heart full of gladness that I wish a happy birthday to the America that I love. I had been worried for a while there, that the America that my father and maternal grandmother had both come to, fleeing Cossacks and Nazis, as so many other millions of other immigrants had come to before them, fleeing religious... »
More on Material Support
In our article last week, we made mention of the Material Support law, and how it specifically prevents the transfer of money or other support, even on humanitarian grounds, when the provider of those funds have reason to believe that the money will go to a designated terrorist organization.We used this to point out that the Administration's intention to transmit... »
Beware Turks Bearing Gifts
"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers." -Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan After last week's unfortunate Gaza Flotilla crisis, orchestrated by members of a Turkish Islamist group, with reported ties to Hamas and Al Qaeda, on a Turkish vessel carrying a Turkish flag, and which has resulted in a... »
Iranian Sanctions and the Homogenization of Values
By Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently said that the draft U.N sanctions against Iran are "stronger than he expected," according to the Voice of America, which sounds rather like a case of lowering expectations in order to preserve self-esteem. How strong are they? Gates tells us if other countries "take significantly more stringent actions on their... »
Jerusalem Day 2010
"Jerusalem is not a mere city. It holds the central spiritual and physical place in the history of the Jews as a people." ---Sir Martin Gilbert Today is supposed to be a joyous day on the Hebrew calendar. Today we commemorate the reunification of Jerusalem in 1967. Jerusalem is the city that my people have looked upon for over 3,000 years as... »
Israel at 62: Will it make it to 70?
(This is a speech that Sarah Stern delivered to Beth Jacob Congregations in Los Angeles) We recently celebrated the 62nd anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel. The scratchy video tape of that momentous vote in the United Nations will be forever etched on the collective memories our generation. And as you can recall, there was that brief moment of... »
We Can’t Even Contain a Non-Nuclear Iran
It appears that the United States foreign policy community has now successfully moved through all five-stages of grief, when it comes to the Islamic Republic of Iran and its nuclear weapons ambitions. First was Denial, of which the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) was the best example, proclaiming that Iran "halted its nuclear weapons program," despite ample evidence to the... »