Posts Tagged: Daniel Mandel
Trump Is Right: Terrorism and Iran Are the Middle East’s Major Problems
Are we on the threshold of a new era in US Middle East policy? Perhaps. A draft of President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy, which makes...
How Balfour Shaped History
A mere 67 words helped alter the course of history. One hundred years ago this past week -- on November 2, 1917 -- the Balfour Declaration was issued, declaring British support for...
Do Palestinian Arabs Want a Peaceful State?
Discussion of the Arab/Israeli situation is often unilluminating because so much of it is based on groundless assumptions and stubborn fictions. Perhaps the most pervasive...
The False Controversy About Jerusalem
The media is abuzz with reports that President-elect Donald Trump intends to honor his pre-election promise to implement the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act and move the body from Tel Aviv to...
What Nakba Day Celebrations Really Say About the Palestinians
On May 15, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over recent years, marked the nakba (Arabic for "catastrophe") –– the day 68 years ago...
The Iran Deal Has Already Put Tehran on the Path to Nuclear Weapons
Last week, the State Department coordinator on Iran, Stephen Mull, acknowledged that the Obama Administration has failed to monitor the transfer of Iranian uranium shipments...
Obama Willfully Lies on Israel, Then Retracts, But the Damage Is Done
After weeks of murderous Palestinian stabbing attacks against innocent Israelis, how has the Obama administration responded? Although Israel has been killing or apprehending knife-wielding terrorists, while Mahmoud...
Obama Has Destroyed the Military Option on Iran
Defending the Iran nuclear deal he negotiated in Vienna, Secretary of State John Kerry has repeatedly asserted something that has been much ignored in the...
Iran Nuclear ‘Deal’ Will Lead to Billions in Terror Funding
Last week, the Lausanne framework deal between the P5+1 powers and Iran on Iran's nuclear program was concluded and immediately talked up as a good...
Israel Elects a Strong, Decisive Leader
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have won a handsome election victory following a grueling campaign, complete with foreign government money, including indirectly from the...
Barack Obama Has Surrendered to Iran
Last week, 10 Senate Democrats who had persistently expressed concern over President Barack Obama's concessionary policy to Iran over its nuclear weapons program, announced via a...
Israel Cannot Trust International Peacekeepers
In recent days, a small fixture of Middle East ceasefire monitoring disintegrated, with scarcely anyone noticing. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), the multinational...
The Truth About the Etzion ‘Settlement’ Bloc
While the Middle East burns and tens of thousands of corpses pile up in Syria and Iraq, Jewish residence anywhere beyond the 1949 armistice lines...
Obama’s More Eager to Engage Terrorists Than Israelis
Last month, President Barack Obama chose to support and fund a Palestinian Authority (PA) government that includes Hamas, a U.S. and EU-designated terrorist group that...
