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Polling Shows Shift in Israeli Opinions of Gaza and Two-State Solution August 02, 2024

This July, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Council for a Secure America conducted a poll of over 600 Jewish Israeli citizens to help inform its discussions with key stakeholders in America. The poll found that the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel produced...

Israel

Politics

Gaza

two-state solution

U.S.-Japan Alliance From Coordination to Integration August 02, 2024

This week, Tokyo hosted the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee, which brought together the two countries’ defense and foreign ministers. Although these “2+2 meetings” are fairly mundane and routine occurrences, this one had unusual importance...

Japan

The Olympics Are Putting Female Athletes in Danger August 02, 2024

Why was a boxer who failed two sex tests allowed to fight a woman?...

Olympics

9/11 Mastermind and Two Other Terrorists Strike Plea Deals August 01, 2024

Biden’s Anti-Israel Deterrence Will Provoke Future Violence August 01, 2024

Since last October, the Biden administration has pursued one objective in the Middle East: de-escalation. But this policy has succeeded only in deterring Israel from acting independently in pursuit of its security interests in Gaza and around the reg...

Two Killed in First Deadly Houthi Attack on Shipping March 07, 2024

Middle East

Biden To Address Nation as Two Wars Rage Abroad March 07, 2024

Americas

Can Two Bad Ideas in Israel and Hamas Be Killed? March 07, 2024

Israel’s attempt to “destroy” Hamas is often derided that you can kill its leaders and fighters and blow up its tunnel network, but that “you can’t kill an idea”.This seems an obvious proposition, but it is false. Or rather, in the abstract no idea e...

Slouching Towards World War III March 07, 2024

The United States, led by President Joe Biden (who a few weeks ago recalled recently speaking to two foreign leaders who had been dead for many years and confusing the names of the current Egyptian and Mexican presidents), Secretary of State Antony B...

World War III

china

Russia’s Version of NATO Is Falling Apart March 06, 2024

Sweden joined NATO last month, ending two centuries of neutrality. Its accession comes just shy of NATO’s 75th anniversary. ...

NATO

John Kerry Is Embarrassed by America’s Climate Politics March 06, 2024

The smallest hint of frustration had crept into John Kerry’s voice. We were talking about international climate diplomacy, which for the past two years has been Kerry’s job as the U.S. special presidential envoy on climate, a role President Joe Biden...

John Kerry

Can Europe Arm Itself? March 06, 2024

Ten years after Moscow began its war against Ukraine and two years after the latest invasion of its western neighbor, the European Union is asking if it should coordinate efforts to bolster Europe’s military capacity in light of Russia’s uncertain fu...

Europe

Ukraine war

The Taliban Stand To Make a Fortune From Gatekeeping Afghanistan’s Natural Resources March 05, 2024

Afghanistan is sitting on an estimated $1 trillion in natural resources – including gold, oil, coal, copper, timber, precious gemstones, marble, onyx, and vast lithium deposits – a potentially lucrative cash cow that the international community can’t...

Western Analysts Got Wrong About Russia and Its Invasion March 05, 2024

Two years ago, on February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he termed a “special military operation” (SVO) against Ukraine. This was the first full-scale invasion of a European country since World War II, though the invasion t...

Russia

The West Must Prepare for War on Two Oceans March 05, 2024

A new era of great power competition threatens the US and its allies, and they must prepare for the possibility of a two-ocean war against Russia and China, says former US Atlantic fleet commander. ...

Navy

The Lost Humanity of the Crisis in Gaza March 04, 2024

Last week, as Israel sought to distribute humanitarian aid in northern Gaza, more than one hundred Gazans were left dead and hundreds more were injured. Palestinians on the ground said Israeli forces engaged in “extensive shooting.” Israel said that ...

Gaza

The Two Wars That Broke America March 04, 2024

The mood in America is bitter. Hyper-partisanship has sabotaged governance and government. Extremes of left and right have infected politics and turned citizens against each other on virtually every issue. Anger and resentment now inform what passes ...

United States

Germany’s Economic Reckoning March 04, 2024

When Russian forces invaded Ukraine two years ago, Germany braced for a painful reckoning....

Germany

We Need To Talk About the Two State Solution March 04, 2024

Establishing a Palestinian state has been a feature of Israeli rhetoric since the 1990s, and the majority of prime ministers have expressed willingness to agree to it, under certain conditions. ...

Israel

Can Europe Go It Alone? March 02, 2024

Two years into Ukraine's all-out war with Russia, Europe has had to cut off nearly all energy imports from Moscow. Can Europe secure its energy future and defend itself without relying on Russia or, depending on the November election, the United Stat...

Europe

Putin’s Warped Idea of Russian History March 01, 2024

February 24 marked two years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the start of a bloody war that changed the borders of Europe for the first time since World War II. ...

Russia

Hungover at the Munich Security Conference March 01, 2024

The hangover after a lavish party can be brutal, with throbbing headaches and the stark recognition of reality. For much of Europe, the two-year-long war in Ukraine has resembled a distant conflict, a threat that remained abstract. This comfortable d...

Ukraine

The Case for Early Elections in Israel March 01, 2024

After more than four months of war in Gaza, two starkly different but equally accurate portraits of Israel have emerged....

Israel