In October 1980, US president Jimmy Carter was eight points ahead in the Gallup Polls. Things were not going well for Republican candidate Ronald Reagan. He had a series of gaffes, i.e., claiming that California had eliminated its smog; that trees polluted as much as cars; and that Alaska possessed more oil than Saudi Arabia.
There has been much debate over having a one-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. The liberal Left says, “this cannot be done; otherwise it would be an apartheid state in which the Palestinians would not have the right to vote.” That is absurd. A one-state solution is the only solution. Why? First, do the
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to make history this Saturday by reaching a milestone of 4,876 days in office, surpassing the longest holding of office by the country’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. With what he has accomplished for the State of Israel through his economic, innovative and security policies, he has transformed Israel’s
The “Peace to Prosperity” workshop in Bahrain last week proved that the winds of peace between the State of Israel and the Arab Sunni states are becoming stronger and stronger. It was Jared Kushner’s brilliant plan to bring together leaders, experts and professionals from around the world to discuss economic development, institution-building and paths to
The question on the minds of Middle East leaders is: Why is Iran taking such risks and playing an endgame of Russian roulette? On Thursday, June 20, President Donald Trump ordered a retaliatory attack on Iran for the downing of a US surveillance drone in the Strait of Hormuz. The order was rescinded just before
Candidate Donald Trump was critical of the deal reached with Iran by then-President Barack Obama, and referred to it as the “worst deal ever.” Trump felt that it gave Iran too much for a very little in return. As president, Trump was later in a position to rescind the lop-sided treaty. As a product of
The late Shimon Peres talked repeatedly about the “new wars” of the twenty-first century taking the form of economic, media, ideological and proxy wars. President Donald Trump’s plan for an economic summit in Bahrain on June 25 and 26 will include government and industry leaders. Conference organizers will attempt to mobilize nations from the Middle
The campaign for the 2020 presidential election has begun and Donald Trump is already the winner! There is no possibility that any of the Democratic candidates can compete with President Trump when it comes to Israel. On the weekend of June 15, I spoke at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York. Speaking prior
On Jerusalem Day, the Israeli people celebrate the reunification of Jerusalem after the 1967 Six-Day War, but they will also be remembering the courageous move US President Donald Trump made to move the American Embassy to Israel’s capital – Jerusalem. In 1967, the State of Israel acted in self-defense to preemptively take out the Egyptian,
Since 1948, the State of Israel has seen friendly presidents of the United States as well as unfriendly, but today Israel’s greatest friend sits in the White House. Since taking office in 2017, President Donald Trump has achieved more for Israel and the Jewish people than any other president before him, even rivaling Harry Truman,