The Folly of Lifting Sanctions on the Deadliest Arm of the Iranian Regime
A move that would “endanger American lives.”
April 12, 2022
The Folly of Lifting Sanctions on the Deadliest Arm of the Iranian Regime
A move that would “endanger American lives.”
In exchange for agreeing to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, Tehran is demanding that the U.S. cease to consider its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S. has no intention of doing so, yet reports have also circulated that Foggy Bottom is seeking a workaround of some sort. Elliott Abrams and Behnam Ben Taleblu argue that any such compromise “would be pure strategic folly.”
April 12, 2022
Israel’s Government Might Not Collapse, but Israelis Will Still Pay the Price of Paralysis
Once again, the people’s business won’t get done.
Jewish Organizations Must Start Saying “No” to Oligarchs’ Money
They exist to serve their communities, not the individuals who fund them.
Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Vision of Radical Evil, and of Art That Transcends Politics
There’s more to the Yiddish writer than “combining shtetls, demons, and sex in a small bowl, mixed well.”
Orthodox Judaism Responds to the Challenge Posed by Leo Strauss
Why stop at saying that belief is just as rational as unbelief?