Opinion

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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