King Abdullah of Jordan, in an MSNBC interview with journalist Andrea Mitchell, issued a subtle warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s pre-election statement that Israel would annex the Jordan Valley (West Bank) prompted the declaration from Jordan’s monarch. He said that he had taken the pronouncement with a grain of salt, and then added: “a statement
As the founder of the Friends of Zion Museum, a member of the Trump Evangelical Faith Initiative, and a journalist, I have the honor to meet hundreds of diplomatic figures from around the world in pursuit of building stronger relationships with Israel and the Jewish people. From these scores of meetings, I have seen that
Many a time, I have been asked how an Evangelical Christian could feel so strongly about Israel’s Late President Peres. Earnestly, it is because I had a privileged close bond with this great man. I have been honored to have Shimon Peres serve as the International Chairman of the Friends of Zion Heritage Center and
On a September evening in 1980 in Tel Aviv, I sat with former Mossad chief Isser Harel for a conversation about Arab terrorism. As he handed me a cup of hot tea and a plate of cookies. I asked him, “Do you think terrorism will come to America, and if so, where and why?” Harel
I have been a journalist for decades, a leading expert on Middle Eastern Affairs, a New York Times #1 Best Selling Author of 96 books that have sold over 38 million copies worldwide. With all of that, I am embarrassed to admit that I am a journalist, as there has been an obsession as of
After nearly three years as the United States special representative for international negotiations and as an assistant to US President Donald Trump, Jason Greenblatt announced that he is stepping down from his roles. What he has accomplished within these two positions is incredible, and for that, Greenblatt is thanked. After announcing his resignation, Greenblatt stated
I sat in a coffee shop in Metulla for an early morning meeting with Maj. Saad Haddad, head of the South Lebanon Army. It was just another meeting for him; one of many with a skeptical journalist. He knew I was an Evangelical and asked, “Why the silence? Christians are being slaughtered in Lebanon.” Then
On November 2, 2018, I wrote in The Jerusalem Post that Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Turkey, and the journalist was to be arrested and charged with incitement according to Article 6 of the law in Saudi Arabia. After months of extended investigation, Sabah, a newspaper close to Erdogan’s regime in
The mullahs who run Iran are obsessed with imposing a new worldwide caliphate. It is called “The Nation of Islam.” America is perceived as a threat to their ideology and culture. They believe the US can be defeated by the return of the Mahdi, the Islamic messiah. It is thought that this Shia philosophy will
Two home-grown terrorists created scenes of murder and mayhem in two US cities this past weekend. First, Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas, drove from that city outside of Dallas to El Paso, where he murdered 22 people and wounded scores of others. Less than 24 hours later, and while the country still reeled from the