August 22, 2023
Iran’s Dangerous Charm Offensive
U.S. involvement, and Saudi-Israeli rapprochement, could defeat it.
Besides concluding a China-brokered agreement with its traditional rival, Saudi Arabia, Tehran has made overtures to the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Turkey. At the same time, the Islamic Republic has engaged in a campaign of maritime harassment directed at the U.S. and is escalating against Israel with West Bank terror and mischief in southern Lebanon. Kenneth Pollack explains that Iran’s goal of regional domination remains unchanged, and seeks to interpret its recent behavior:
August 22, 2023
Iran’s Dangerous Charm Offensive
U.S. involvement, and Saudi-Israeli rapprochement, could defeat it.
Legal Euthanasia Encourages People to Give in to Despair
The cruelty of Canada’s MAID laws.
Saving the Last Synagogue in Mosul
Iraq’s latest anti-Semitic legislation makes restoration efforts all but impossible.
How a False (and Anti-Semitic) Accusation of Patricide Almost Derailed the Career of a Great Photographer
Philippe Halsman, Austrian Dreyfus.