Iran Knows Obama Won’t Walk Away
The latest round of talks between the West and Iran in Lausanne, Switzerland broke up today with both sides saying differences still remain between the parties. Though the basic principles of the...
View ArticleIf Bibi Loses, the Next Defense Minister Still Wants to Bomb Iran
Most American coverage of the Israeli election continues to center on the fate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his possible replacement by a Labor-led coalition that will steer the Jewish...
View ArticleWhat Obama’s Rush to Iran Détente Means
The nuclear talks between the Iran and the United States and its allies continue in Lausanne, Switzerland this week with both parties expressing both optimism that they are close to an agreement and...
View ArticleOn Iran, Senate Democrats Must Choose Between Obama and Constitution
With a week to go before the deadline for the end of the current round of nuclear talks with Iran, the Obama administration is hopeful but by no means certain it can get a deal. The president has...
View ArticleThe Last Time Iran Lied
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry put a great deal of faith in their Iranian interlocutors, chief among them Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. After all, Supreme...
View ArticleWhat South Africa Teaches Us About Suspect Nuclear Programs
Just as two decades ago in the run-up to the 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea, enthusiasm for a nuclear deal has trumped good sense and careful consideration about the implications of some of the...
View ArticleWorry About Iran, Not Israeli Democracy
The White House temper tantrum about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decisive re-election win isn’t quite over. Though the president finally forced himself to call to congratulate the prime...
View ArticleSpies Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
The Wall Street Journal rattled some teacups with its article today claiming that Israel is spying on the American team negotiating with Iran and sharing the results with lawmakers on Capitol Hill. It...
View ArticleIf Iran’s ‘Hard-Liners’ Are Happy, Americans Should Be Worried
According to the New York Times’ man in Tehran, Iran’s “hard-liners” are being unusually quiet these days. Bureau chief Thomas Erdbrink reports that what one of his sources among the regime’s...
View ArticleAre the Iran Nuclear Talks a Hostage Negotiation?
With one week left before the current deadline for the end of the nuclear talks with Iran, the administration’s desperation to cut a deal with Tehran is fairly obvious. The reason why the Iranians have...
View ArticleObama’s Latest Concession Guts What’s Left of the Iran Nuclear Deal
You don’t have to be an Israeli spy to know what’s going on at the nuclear talks between Iran and the West at Lausanne, Switzerland. As the Wall Street Journal reported this morning, the Iranians were...
View ArticleThe Conversation About Iran Obama Wants
Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton makes a strong case today on the New York Times op-ed page for the need to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities in order to ensure that the regime doesn’t get a...
View ArticleWho Turned Israel Into a Political Football?
In the last week, the Obama administration has talked about “reconsidering” its policy in the Middle East, a statement widely and accurately interpreted as a threat to abandon Israel at the United...
View ArticleFordow and Obama’s Iran March of Folly
As the deadline for the end of the Iran nuclear talks grows closer, the remaining gaps between the positions of the two parties are starting to be closed up. And as everyone expected, Iran is winning...
View ArticleGOP Doesn’t Play Fair. They Back Israel.
New York Times coverage of Republicans tends to be biased and judgmental. Conservatives are generally portrayed as either conniving and cynical big money manipulators of simple-minded voters (the...
View ArticleIran Tests Obama’s Desperation Again
As the last weekend before the deadline for its nuclear talks with Iran wound down, administration sources were talking as if a deal was a foregone conclusion. But as they have throughout this process,...
View ArticleDeal or a Delay? Either Is a Triumph for Iran
With only hours to go before a self-imposed deadline on the Iran nuclear talks expires, the outcome of the current round of negotiations is still up in the air. The New York Times claimed that the...
View ArticleAs Dem Leader, Schumer Can’t Protect Both Israel and Obama
Throughout his 16 years in the Senate, Chuck Schumer has comfortably built a reputation as a fierce Democratic partisan while also being an ardent support of Israel. But in his new status as the...
View ArticleOvertime Iran Talks Make Congressional Action Necessary
A day after the deadline for the conclusion of negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program expired, the talks continued. Secretary of State John Kerry appears determined to keep talking with his Iranian...
View ArticleWho Benefits From Endless Iran Negotiations?
In the hands of a president that was tough enough to mean what he said when he threatened to walk away from nuclear talks with Iran if it didn’t get what it wanted, a negotiating deadline would be an...
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