Clifford D. May / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Clifford D. May / JNS.org

Walk Like an Israeli
JNS.org - Imagine if Pope Francis were to say: “Only Christians are permitted in the Vatican! No Muslims and no Jews!” The “international community” would...

Anything Goes: How Extremist Ideologies Are Proliferating
JNS.org - Extremist ideologies are proliferating, and it has become taboo in what we used to call polite society to criticize ideas that, not long...

The UN Goes DEFCON 3 on Israel
JNS.org - Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainian men, women and children. Xi Jinping is committing genocide against the Muslims of East Turkistan. Ali Khamenei is...

The UN Goes DEFCON 3 on Israel
JNS.org - Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainian men, women and children. Xi Jinping is committing genocide against the Muslims of East Turkistan. Ali Khamenei is...

The Problem With Despots
JNS.org - We’re inclined to believe that those who rule nations, however despotic they may be, are not so different from us. Surely, they weigh...

3001 Arabian Nights
JNS.org - The last time I visited Saudi Arabia was in February 2017. Changes were occurring. “Baby steps,” as one savvy young Saudi woman told...

Reporters in Gaza Have Never Been Free and Aren’t Now
JNS.org - Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood branch that rules Gaza, sat out this month’s conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a smaller Gaza-based terrorist...

The ‘Forever War’ Against the West
JNS.org - Just under a year ago, President Biden asked this question: “What interest do we have in Afghanistan at this point, with Al-Qaeda gone?” Just...

From Jerusalem to Jeddah
JNS.org - President Biden’s mission to the Middle East had been going so well. In Jerusalem, he pleased his hosts by telling them: “Israel must remain...

Is International Law Dead?
JNS.org - “Do you think that the time of international law has passed?” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked that of the United Nations Security Council...

Iran’s Rulers Are Demanding Too Much Even for Biden
JNS.org - For months, the smart money has been betting that a nuclear deal between President Joe Biden and Iran’s rulers was a sure thing. Biden...

A Diplomatic End to Putin’s Ukraine War Is Unlikely
JNS.org – Let’s acknowledge that we’re treading on dangerous ground. Russia is ruled by a thug who has launched a war intended to extinguish Ukraine...

Fall of the Golden Arches Theory: Enriching Tyrants Doesn’t Prevent Wars After All
JNS.org – McDonald’s is closing its restaurants in Russia, which means no more Happy Meals in Gorky Park. But there’s also a McNugget of geostrategic...

Putin’s Troops Ravage Ukraine While His Envoy Steers Team Biden’s Talks With Iran
JNS.org - We all have our patterns of behavior. Start with Vladimir Putin, who, over the more than two decades he’s ruled Russia, has assassinated dissidents,...