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Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker
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August 20, 2021
A Jewish Message to the Terrorists of the WorldThis week, Jews all around the world will read a portion of Deuteronomy that calls to remember an incident that occurred over 3,000 years ago. It involved a belligerent enemy whose name would have been erased from history were it not prese...
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August 27, 2016
Obama’s Iran Strategy Creates Support for the Islamic StateDespite the obvious fallacy in Donald Trump’s recent statement that President Obama and his former Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton were the “founders of ISIS”, Hudson Institute scholar Michael Doran’s February 2, 2015 es...
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June 24, 2016
The Fallacies Undergirding the Current US Policy toward IranFor the past thirty-seven years the United States of America has been approaching its policies toward the Islamic Republic of Iran with an almost messianic hope that the Khomeinist government of Iran can be weaned away from its anti-Western stance by...
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June 12, 2015
Textbooks tell the tale: Iran's apocalyptic visionRecently, Yoram Ettinger, a retired Israeli ambassador, published an article in Israel Hayom entitled “Iran’s School Textbooks – Can Congress afford to ignore it?” The article provides evidence suggesting that Iran, unde...
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April 4, 2015
An Iranian Wolf in Sheep's ClothingDr. Mansour Salsabili is the author of an article in The National Interest entitled "How Iran Became the Middle East's Moderate Force." There, Salsabili claims that Iran, under Ali Khamenei's leadership, has changed radically ...
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March 3, 2015
Why Prime Minister Netanyahu should address the U.S. Congress on IranFor the last several weeks, the American and the Israeli national press, as well as the American Jewish press, have debated the wisdom of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to accept House Speaker John Boehner’s invitati...
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June 22, 2014
Fox in the Henhouse: Obama's Newest Middle-East MistakeThe recent major offensive of the Sunni Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) jihadis upon Mosul and central Iraq and subsequent drive towards Baghdad, with the goal of a theoretical toppling of the regime of the Shiite Nouri al-Maliki, has served a...
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September 1, 2013
Message to Jerusalem: Don't Rely on American SecurityThe current Palestinian-Israeli peace talks have brought the question of security arrangements to the fore. Although it is quite early in the process, suggestions have already been floated that propose an American presence in the West Bank in o...
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June 21, 2013
Shai Franklin's Distorted Discourse on Iranian DissidentsOn Monday, June 17, 2013, Shai Franklin, currently senior fellow for United Nations Affairs at the Institute on Religion and Public Affairs, penned a critique for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency entitled "Stop pretending to care about Iranians' rights....
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June 18, 2013
Understanding Hassan Rouhani's Election as Iran's PresidentDr. Hassan Feridon Rouhani's victory in the June 14, 2013 Iranian presidential election took many by surprise -- not least of all the Iranian regime's leadership, including the faqih, Supreme Leader Sayeed Ali Khamenei. The question that challe...
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June 12, 2013
Crystal Ball on Iran's Presidential ElectionOn Friday, June 14, Iranians will go to the polls to elect a new president for a four-year term. Out of a field of 686 applicants, which included 30 women, the twelve-member Guardian Council that vets all candidates cut the number down to eight men t...
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May 16, 2013
Syria: A Case of Humpty DumptySyria today is a nation-state that is in the midst of a terrible civil war in which some 82,0001 of her citizens have died in the last twenty-eight months. Although the Sunni rebels have made impressive gains and bloodied the regime of Bashir a...
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September 30, 2012
Deciphering Iran's Nuclear IntentionsIn the last half-year, the public chatter about the Iranian nuclear program has grown to a daily splurge of articles worldwide. The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times crowd their reports with this or that pundit's sp...
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September 5, 2012
Madeleine Albright: Still Clueless about Some Women's Legal RightsNearly fifteen years after she signed an order designating the female-led Iranian resistance organization Mojahedin-e Khalq (aka People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) as a foreign terrorist organization -- this being part of a politically motivate...
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August 19, 2012
Shame on Senator Frank R. Lautenberg!New Jersey's senior U.S. senator, Frank R. Lautenberg, published an article ("Romney must stop playing politics with Israel") in the August 15, 2012 edition of The Jerusalem Post for which he should be thoroughly ashamed. It is a political smea...
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March 18, 2012
State Department Uses Josh Rogin to Justify Bogus Blacklisting of MEKLast week, the United States Department of State stooped to a new low in its attempt to justify its nearly fifteen-year-old misguided policy of regarding the pro-secular, pro-democracy Iranian resistance organization known as the Mojahedin e-Khalq (M...
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November 6, 2011
How to Spook the Islamists in IranA few weeks ago, news broke of an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States in a Hezbollah-like operation run by Qods Force operatives. According to the plot, a truck loaded with high explosives would be deto...
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July 5, 2011
Palestine vs. Israel: Pinning the 'Apartheid' Label on the Right DonkeyIn recent years, Palestinian propagandists and their international supporters have attempted to brand Israel with the label of "apartheid," the despicable South African policy of racial discrimination that reduced the African non-white populatio...
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April 18, 2011
U.S. Middle-East Policy in DisarrayApparently Washington, D.C. has only recently come to realize that U.S.-Middle East policy is in tatters. The degree of disarray still seems to be hidden from those charged with administering such a policy: the State Department. Neither t...
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January 16, 2011
The State Department's Israel End-RunUnder Barack Obama, America's relationship with Israel has taken on the character of a petulant teenager dealing with a parent. Early on January 2, 2011, Israel's liberal newspaper, Haaretz, reported that U.S. President Barack H. Obama and Secretary ...
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May 22, 2010
Outside the Box Method to Stop Iran's Nuclear DriveThe most recent estimates concerning Iran's nuclear program suggest that Iran will have mastered the process of making a bomb within the year and will actually be able to possess such a bomb within three years. The possibility that these estimates ar...
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April 8, 2010
Would a Palestinian State Solve America's Middle East Problems?Given the current view espoused in much of the media that the Palestinian-Israeli squabble is the root of all or much of America's poor image in the Arab world, we might want to examine whether creating a Palestinian state -- in whichever form of bor...
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March 29, 2010
The Roots of Washington's Failures in Dealing with Rogue RegimesThe United States has had a lousy track record in dealing with rogue regimes for at least the past three decades. There are very few successes that Washington can claim in its attempts to wean such rogue states back into the council of civility, espe...
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February 22, 2010
What Iran Sanctions Won't Do and What They Can Do[see also Time for America to Act on Iran]President Obama recently promised strict and biting sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran for its continued refusal to curtail its nuclear program or even to enter serious negotiations. Such sanctions, an...