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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... »
All the Troubles of the Middle East, In One Little Country
By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler There is a country in the Middle East accused of a brutal decades-long occupation. A country where a blockade causes starvation among a civilian refugee population. A country which violently cracks down on those who oppose it, shooting into crowds of protestors, while it receives substantial aid money from the United States as an ally... »
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... »
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... »
Days of Memory, Days of Jubilation
Today, as I write these words, sirens wail throughout Israel, and people, no matter what they are doing, stop the frenetic activity of their daily lives, get up out of their chairs in boardrooms or out of their cars in highways, and commemorate a moment of silent memory of the more than 22,000 fallen Israeli soldiers. Last week, we commemorated Yom... »
Fallout from Obama’s Nuclear Summit
President Obama's announcement that the American people will be "safer and more secure," as a result of the nuclear summit held in Washington D.C over the past week, is akin to a triumphant declaration that the barn door has been successfully slammed shut, even while Mrs. O'Leary's cow ambles merrily past us. Four countries (Chile, Ukraine, South Africa, and Mexico) have... »
Linkage Again
News reaches us of yet another Palestinian terrorist being honored with a street naming. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses the threat of sanctions, calling President Obama a "cowboy."And the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs testifies that Iran is stepping up its arming of Insurgents in Afghanistan. So naturally the big news in Middle East policy is that the Obama Administration... »
Want to Improve U.S Relations in the Middle East? Get Tough on Iran
By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler One of the many promises made by President Obama was the desire to "repair" America's relations with the Middle East and Muslim world. Hence speeches aimed at the Muslim world in Turkey, and Cairo, a reversal of long-time, American policy on Israeli settlements , numerous attempts to reconcile with Syria and holding back on supporting... »