How Israel Can Turn Itself from a Liability to an Asset in the Global Competition with China
The U.S. stands to benefit from the Jewish state’s technology.
September 23, 2019
While the U.S. Supports Lebanon, Lebanon Supports Hizballah
The country, once a safe haven for terrorist organizations, is now fully entwined with one.
The U.S. Navy, responding to the Iranian attack on a Saudi Arabian oil field, recently sent a destroyer to the Middle East to demonstrate its willingness to defend its allies. But, write Tony Badran and Jonathan Schanzer, the fact that the ship was dispatched not to the Persian Gulf but to Beirut highlights the confusion of American policy toward Lebanon. For at least a decade, policymakers in Washington have hoped that supporting the country and its armed forces could give it the political and military power to rein in Hizballah, the Iran-backed guerrilla group that operates from its territory. Instead, the opposite has happened:
September 23, 2019
While the U.S. Supports Lebanon, Lebanon Supports Hizballah
The country, once a safe haven for terrorist organizations, is now fully entwined with one.
Religion, in One Way or Another, Is Part of America’s Social Contract
And other rules for renewing the civic discourse.
Did Early Zionist Thinkers Seek Something Other Than a Sovereign Jewish Nation-State? It’s Complicated
In the hope of reducing Israel to what he sees as its proper dimensions, a historian has cherrypicked facts.
New Findings Support the Biblical Account of the Edomite Kingdom
“Before a king reigned in Israel.”