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Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Since 2019, he has been serving on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in the office of the secretary. He is a 2017 winner of the ...
Going Backwards in Beirut
Hezbollah still holds power despite losing the election. . . .
Rudy Giuliani and "The man on whom nothing was lost"
Rudy Giuliani has put together an extraordinary team of foreign policy/national security advisers...
The Conservative Mind
The left prides itself on, and frequently boasts of, its superior appreciation of the complexity and depth of moral and political life...
Understanding the Geneva Conventions
In law schools — as well as in public discourse and at the highest levels of government — international law, particularly the law of armed conflict, has become a hot topic...
Netanyahu Surprises at 10th Annual Herzliya Conference
A willingness to seek political negotiations with the Palestinians is a departure for Israel's prime minister. . . .
Contemplating Egypt at the Herzliya Conference
Israel the Peacemaker
For proof that Israel is more than willing to deal in good faith with the Palestinians, just look at the political freedoms Israeli Arabs enjoy.
Predictable Reactions After the Abduction of Three Israeli Students
Israel has been riveted in recent days by the abduction of three Jewish religious students who were hitchhiking in the West Bank region of Gush Etzion
The Canard of ‘Israeli Restraint’
The sense of horror over the discovery of the bodies of three dead Israeli teenagers — Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach — is matched only in the dread and disgust one feels over calls for Israel to show “restraint.”
Burmese Visitors Get a Taste of Democracy and Hope
“I was held for seven years as a political prisoner,” explained the soft-spoken 20-something woman from Burma (also known as Myanmar). “I want to understand freedom in America,” she continued with hopeful eyes and a determined voice, “so I can help people in my country.”
How the Foreign Language Gap Can Be Bridged
In 2008, while campaigning for president in Powder Springs, Ga., then-Senator Barack Obama asserted, “We should have every child speaking more than one language.”
Assault On Israel Shifts From Warfare To Lawfare
TEL AVIV -- Last summer Hamas launched against Israel another round of warfare. The Jewish state responded with Operation Protective Edge. In the wake of that 50-day military conflict, international actors are launching against Israel another round of “lawfare.”
Israel's Jewish Nation-State Proposal Still Looms
TEL AVIV -- The controversy that flared up in November over the introduction in the Knesset of a proposal to enshrine in Basic Law -- enactments possessing constitutional status -- the proposition that Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people has swiftly come and gone.
Whitewashing the Jihadists
The US government’s spin on Islamist violence—that the perpetrators aren’t Muslims—is both condescending and wrong.
Bibi Won, But Path Forward Won't Veer Right
It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way—at least not according to the pollsters, Israeli progressives, and certain Democrats who offer political advice to the White House.
Nine Questions Obama Wasn't Asked On Israel
Last week journalist Ilana Dayan interviewed President Obama on her popular Israeli prime-time investigative television program. This was the latest in the president’s campaign to take his case for a nuclear agreement with Iran -- and against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- directly to the people, particularly the Jewish people.
Anti-Israel Group A Threat To Liberal Democracy
On June 15, Members of Knesset Dr. Anat Berko and Dr. Michael Oren hosted a forum—attended by fellow Knesset members, staffers, scholars, and NGO representatives—on the struggle against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS).
How America And Israel Cripple Their Own Soldiers
A horrific news report from Afghanistan brings to light a wide problem afflicting the American and Israeli way of war—but, no, it is not what you think.
Obama's Tattered Middle East Policy
By any reasonable measure, the Obama administration’s Middle East foreign policy is in disarray.
Middle East Needs Direction In Policy
The heinous terrorist acts that darkened a brilliantly sunny day on Sept. 11, 2001, are considered the impetus for plunging the United States into what became the longest war in American history.