October 31, 2020

The Choice Between Trump and Obama Foreign Policies

In The Choice, Phares examines the shifts in foreign policy that occurred during the Obama-Biden administration between 2009 and 2016, analyzes these shifts in strategy, and highlights the domestic and geopolitical consequences. 

January 6, 2020

What it takes to be a global moral leader

The United States, Israel, the Sunni Arab nations, and the free Western world should sleep a little easier, knowing that one of the world's most notorious terrorists, Qassem Soleimani, has been eliminated.

February 2, 2018

Remembering Who Our Friends Are

In periods, such as now, when America is exhausted and war weary, all the world’s bullies and moral cockroaches come out of the woodwork.

April 22, 2017

The Iranian Nuclear Agreement Should Not Be Extended

By certifying that the Iranians have been in compliance, the United States will be continuing the Obama administration's policy of willful blindness.

March 4, 2017

Shattering the State Department’s Echo Chamber

It is human nature that the longer the time, the deeper the resistance to change.  So it is with the State Department and Israel.

November 19, 2016

The Great American-Jewish Cultural Divide

For those of us who are deeply committed to the survival of Israel, it was difficult not to breathe a sigh of relief about how the elections turned out. 

August 24, 2016

The Anatomy of a Deception

The worst example of international diplomacy in history, with none other than the world’s leading state sponsor of Islamic terrorism, at a time when the free Western world is being plagued by a scourge of Islamic terrorism. 

July 23, 2016

Four Lessons about the Nice Attack

Liberals display a total miscomprehension of the true nature of the war the radical Islamist is waging against Western civilization. 

February 18, 2016

The Syrian Descent into Hell

It has been agonizing to watch this spiraling descent into hell in which many good, innocent people, as well as some very venal actors, have been caught up. 

January 27, 2016

Blood Money

The Iran deal is yet another example of the triumph of “hope” in Obama’s foreign policy over “realism”. 

December 29, 2015

Refusing to Give Up the Ghost of Oslo

Pundits, analysts, and self-proclaimed “experts” refuse to acknowledge that the Oslo paradigm has been an abysmal failure.

December 13, 2015

Sleeping Through the Shiite Wakeup Call

When Iran launched its recent missile tests, it should have been a wakeup call to the international community.

November 10, 2015

The Syrian Chessboard

America’s retreat from this Middle Eastern chessboard, and its withdrawal of all of its pieces has played a huge role in the disintegration of the region.

September 23, 2015

The Iran Deal -- a Corrupt and Dirty Game

The Obama administration circumvented the Constitution to pass the Iran deal -- but it had help.

November 23, 2014

Terror in Jerusalem

Many policymakers in the U.S. stubbornly refuse to recognize that there is no distinction between the terrorists that attack Jews at prayer in Jerusalem and terrorists who bomb runners in a marathon in Boston.

September 18, 2014

The Junior Varsity Team in the White House

It is time for us to stop playing checkers while the Ayatollahs and Caliphs are playing chess

August 5, 2014

Call It for What it Is: Anti-Semitism

The façade of a policy disagreement with Israel’s operations in Gaza has quickly evaporated and revealed the familiar old virus of anti-Semitism.

July 4, 2014

The End of Our Illusions

A culture of hatred and of deification of death has been going on for a generation, has metastasized like a virulent cancer and has taken root deep within the Palestinian body politic.

May 22, 2014

Misplaced Outrage

If you look at college campuses throughout the United States this spring, you see plenty of outrage. 

April 10, 2014

Who is Governor Chris Christie Really Pandering To?

Christie of Arabia opens up the on-ramp to Sharia law.

March 16, 2014

It is Time to Remove the Persian Mask

The threat posed by a nuclear Iran is real and it is imminent, even to us, here in the United States.

January 15, 2014

A Disturbing Double Standard

The U.S. government insists on concessions from Israel that we would not accept ourselves.

September 24, 2013

Beware Persians Bearing Gifts

Hassan Rouhani has got the perfect rug for us.

June 2, 2013

Kissing My Daughter Goodbye

It's all too easy to forget that it's individual ioves that are the important factor amid chaos and crisis.

January 5, 2013

Egypt's Stillborn Democracy

The Middle East that is descending in an inchoate free fall back down onto the familiar ground of religious fundamentalism, primitive tribal society, and internecine warfare which that region of the world is so accustomed to.

November 16, 2012

Targeted Killings: Good for the U.S.; Good for Israel

Nonuniformed Islamist combatants, often hiding in heavily populated civilian areas, have been waging a war against Israel and the United States, using any means necessary.