Donald Trump and the Mythmakers

By Caroline Glick, JPost— For the past 40-odd years, two narratives have guided American Middle East policy. Both were invented by the Carter administration. One relates to Iran. One relates to Israel. Both narratives reject reality as the basis for foreign policy decision-making in favor of delusion. Over the past two months, President Donald Trump…

Gen. Petraeus on Qasem Soleimani’s killing: ‘It’s impossible to overstate the significance’

By The World— The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region, the Pentagon said on Friday. Iran promised vengeance after a US airstrike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qasem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent…

Don’t Confuse Me With Facts. It’s Always About the “Occupation”

By Asaf Romirowsky, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies— Like clockwork, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent observation that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law” was immediately denounced by the Jewish Left. The head of the Reform movement in North America, Rabbi Rick Jacobs,…