Iran: Not Israel’s role or responsibility
One of the more important assertions that President Obama made in his speech to AIPAC this week was that preventing Iran from attaining nuclear weapons was a US national security interest; indeed, he...
View ArticleComing soon: The US-Iran blame game
A month ahead of the deadline for the current negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 over a comprehensive nuclear deal, the stated positions of the two sides could not be further apart. It is hard to...
View ArticleWhy we need Iran to reveal all: A response to Jeffrey Lewis
As we move to the November 24 deadline for P5+1-Iran negotiations on a comprehensive nuclear deal, the issue of Iran’s past weaponization activities is becoming critical. Iran’s most recent...
View ArticleTaking stock of a failed negotiation
The string of deadlines for concluding a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran that have been set and missed over the past two weeks highlights the tension between the perceived need to set a deadline...
View ArticleRoll out the ex-security chiefs
When you really need to prop up your unconvincing case on the Iran nuclear deal, where better to seek out support than from within the Israeli ex-security establishment community? These are no doubt...
View ArticleWhat 29 top US scientists don’t know
The recent letter of support sent to President Obama for his Iran deal secured last month – signed by 29 scientists, including Nobel laureates – was obviously well-timed to lend firmer scientific...
View ArticleOne year to the JCPOA: The slippery logic of Iran deal supporters
The weaknesses and failings of the JCPOA are easily identifiable – while some issues are more significant than others, taken together the problems underscore that keeping Iran from nuclear weapons,...
View ArticleThat so-called Israeli support for the Iran deal
In the final stretch of the P5+1 negotiation with Iran over a nuclear deal, the Obama administration and its staunch supporters began highlighting Israeli security establishment figures who expressed...
View ArticleTrump’s strike in Syria: Restoring US leadership and deterrence
In an almost immediate response to Assad again using the sarin chemical agent as a weapon against his own population, President Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk cruise missile strikes against the Shayrat air...
View ArticleTrump-contempt is clouding the picture
US President Trump is no doubt a highly controversial president, and he is rocking American politics. But it does not appear that he will be impeached anytime soon, which means that he will most likely...
View ArticleIsrael needs Trump to contain Iran. He’s off to a good start.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The latest episode of Iran flexing its regional hegemonic muscles in the Middle East came with a direct and unprecedented military challenge to Israel. Last week, Iran used a...
View ArticleAs an Israeli at AIPAC, I felt the love
My first policy conference was in 2013. I was honored and excited to have been invited to speak on a few panels dealing with Iran in the framework of this impressive gathering of staunch supporters of...
View ArticleWhy we need Iran to reveal all: A response to Jeffrey Lewis
Teheran cannot be compelled to back away from its nuclear military ambitions so long as it denies these ambitions exist.
View ArticleTaking stock of a failed negotiation
The string of deadlines for concluding a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran that have been set and missed over the past two weeks highlights the tension between the perceived need to set a deadline...
View ArticleRoll out the ex-security chiefs
When you really need to prop up your unconvincing case on the Iran nuclear deal, where better to seek out support than from within the Israeli ex-security establishment community? These are no doubt...
View ArticleWhat 29 top US scientists don’t know
The signers of a pro-nuclear deal seem unaware that Iran can drag the 24-day inspection warning out forever
View ArticleOne year to the JCPOA: The slippery logic of Iran deal supporters
The weaknesses and failings of the JCPOA are easily identifiable – while some issues are more significant than others, taken together the problems underscore that keeping Iran from nuclear weapons,...
View ArticleThat so-called Israeli support for the Iran deal
Claims by Barack Obama, Tim Kaine and others that IDF brass are pro-JCPOA are potentially dangerous distortions
View ArticleTrump’s strike in Syria: Restoring US leadership and deterrence
The US sent a deterrent message to dangerous regimes -- WMD will not be tolerated -- but policing them will be a challenge
View ArticleTrump-contempt is clouding the picture
Foreign policy analysis is suffering under false assumption the US president has no coherent policy
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