A regime whose voices openly discuss building and 'firing' nuclear weapons, with scenarios of tsunamis against America, cannot be trusted with such capability.
The comprehensive U.S. economic pressure point campaign targeting Iran’s already troubled economy could have dramatic effects on the restive population in the country of over 90 million people.
The danger is that the proposed alliance could perform well enough in the upcoming elections to become a dominant force in the next Palestinian Legislative Council.
U.S. foreign policy shifts from a proactive, long-term chess game to a reactive, short-term damage control exercise dictated by whatever event is dominating the digital news cycle.
The mainstream media outlet began promoting variations of genocide libel on Oct. 14, 2023, just one week after the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust.
For the remaining time of Trump's presidency, the regime plans to play a familiar game of opening and closing the waterway, dangling intermittent negotiations, employing intermediaries, walking up to the table and then walking away.
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was formally signed on Aug. 7, 2026, by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
How can anyone be expected to trust these countries when their governments participate in meetings and statements that condemn Israel while failing to demand that Hamas disarm unconditionally?
The assumption that the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza or ISF would be able to prevent terrorists from regaining control over the stored weapons is totally misleading.
Even when peace is plainly out of reach, there remains a temptation to repeat the language of peace, present it as political theater and persuade ourselves that military victory is impossible.
Israel has shifted refuelers that had been stationed at Ben-Gurion Airport to southern Israeli bases and Ramon Airport to avoid disruptions to international flights.
Also ignored was the context that the Jewish people had experienced a genocide in Europe, in which six million were murdered and the world had refused to take most refugees.
Political upheaval, or even a violent overthrow of the monarchy, could one day place uranium enrichment facilities, nuclear scientists, and weapons-grade materials into the hands of Islamist terrorists.
Netanyahu’s previous trip to Washington took place in February, two weeks before the joint U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran known as 'Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury.'
Iran's pattern is clear: escalate, absorb strikes, then call for talks by mediators from Qatar, Oman, Pakistan, or other Muslim Brotherhood allies that are trying to buy Iran time.
If Mamdani were to publish a map of neighborhoods 'from the river to the sea' and associated ethnicities, he would no doubt replicate the methodology he applied to his New York City map.
The United Nations was founded to make atrocities costly for those who commit or enable them but instead built a machine that absorbs those costs internally.
A dictatorial regime that publicly tolerates calls for the assassination of the president of the United States cannot be treated as just another difficult adversary.