Joseph Raskas
ARTICLES BY: Joseph Raskas
Obama, Iran and the Absence of Moral Courage
Proponents of the P5+1 deal with Iran will rue the day they chose party loyalty over their Constitutional obligation to ensure a sustainable framework against...
How Obama is Selling Out the Middle East to Iran
A running theme of pro-Israel Democrats is that President Obama’s approach to achieving a nuclear deal with Iran is consistent with his “unshakable” support for the...
Why Obama is Cautious on Syria
It has been said that policy is a set of pragmatic choices between unpalatable alternatives designed to achieve the most desirable realistic result. What is...
Kerry’s Peace Talks Could Lead to New Terror Attacks
The recent effort by US Secretary of State John Kerry to restart the moribund 'peace process' between Israel and the Palestinians is best illustrated by...
Who Will Attack Iran – Israel or the U.S.?
A crisis can define a leader. The looming showdown with Iran will almost certainly produce a great leader. However, the pertinent and still unresolved question...
Hassan Rouhani and the Myth of ‘Moderation’
Human beings have a massive capacity to ignore bad news, as if dispensing with information that is either inconvenient or detrimental to one's life will...
Have We Learned Anything From the Boston Attack?
A recent article in Investor's Business Daily makes the claim that mosques are excluded from the wide-ranging surveillance dragnet operated by the United States government....
How to Draft the Ultra-Orthodox
Since its inception in 1948, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has served as a major means of integrating Israel's diverse population. Jews from all walks...
The Benghazi Playbook: Lies, Betrayal and Cover-Up
The emergence of new evidence documenting an alleged cover-up by the Obama administration during the aftermath of the Benghazi attack has accelerated the dissolution of...
Multiculturalism and the Decline of American Values
Liberal academia has always displayed a notoriously poor track record of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism. So it should come as no surprise then...
Why the Bombing in Boston Just Sent Shivers Down Janet Napolitano’s Spine
According to at least one media report, a 20 year-old Saudi citizen who is currently visiting the United States on a student visa is a...
Is Obama Crazy?
I am told that the definition of a crazy person is someone who keeps repeating an action, expecting a different outcome each time....
With Friends Like These…
Last week, the Israel Policy Forum (IPF) published an open letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which 100 Jewish activists urged the Israeli leader...
