Clifford D. May / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Clifford D. May / JNS.org
Tehran’s Weapons of Mass Distraction
JNS.org - In 1993, a massive truck bomb exploded at the World Trade Center, the first major international terrorist attack on American soil. Five years later,...
Lone Soldiers
JNS.org - “Israel Alone” was the headline on the cover of the March 23 issue of The Economist, the British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli...
Putin’s Defeat in Ukraine
JNS.org - Last Friday, President Biden announced new sanctions targeting 500 Russian officials and companies. His aim was to deliver the “devastating” consequences that, three years...
Murder in the Gulag
JNS.org - While Tucker Carlson was marveling over the opulence of Moscow’s subways, Alexei Navalny died in the “Polar Wolf” prison camp in northern Siberia. Navalny...
Sinwar Agonistes
JNS.org - Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind behind the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and the worst single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, is...
Israel’s Long, Hot Summer
JNS.org - From atop small mountain peaks in the Israeli Golan Heights you can peer deep into both Lebanon and Syria. On the Israeli side...
Iran’s Shadow War
JNS.org - Israelis battled Palestinians in the northern West Bank last week. That’s what most media reported and it’s true as far as it goes....
Lessons of the Energy Crisis
JNS.org - Energy policy is national security policy. So when political leaders get energy policy wrong, they get national security policy wrong. An obvious example: Germany...
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...