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ARTICLES BY: Ben Cohen / JNS.org
The Decisions Facing Donald Trump
JNS.org - Donald Trump is now America's master. As improbable as that outcome might seem to metropolitan Americans, it is actually quite consistent with the pattern of...
Meet the Austrian President Fawning Over Iran
JNS.org -- You probably haven't heard of Karlheinz Kopf. He’s one of three Austrian politicians currently sharing that country's presidency following the July departure of the...
Aleppo Brings Hezbollah Back Into Focus
JNS.org - After months of dithering, the Obama administration has finally taken some action against the Lebanese Islamist terror organization Hezbollah. The US Treasury Department has applied sanctions...
A Call to End Athletic Discrimination Against Israel
JNS.org - One of the most enduring images of last summer's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was that of Islam El Shehaby, an Egyptian judo competitor,...
Securing a Future for Religious Minorities in the Middle East
JNS.org - You have to wonder if the barbarians fighting under the flag of the Islamic State still believe that 72 virgins will be waiting for...
In First Debate, Trump Proved He Is an Unacceptable Choice for President
JNS.org - I came away from the first presidential debate earlier this week with three immediate thoughts. First, given Donald Trump's diabolical performance, it’s hard to conceive...
Is Berkeley’s Course on Palestine the End of History?
JNS.org - In his forthcoming book The New Philistines, the Wall Street Journal correspondent Sohrab Ahmari devotes a few paragraphs to a symposium on art and identity convened...
Europe’s Most Notorious Jew-Baiter? It’s a Tie
JNS.org - Jew-baiting these days is a globally competitive field. The Middle East, Latin America and Asia could all put up credible candidates for the title...
The Betrayal of Syria’s Kurds
JNS.org - From Moscow to Washington, we are told that the principle enemy in the Middle East is the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. At the same...
Iran Hasn’t Given Up on Latin America
JNS.org - Still flushed with the success, for the Iranians anyway, of the 2015 nuclear deal reached with the United States and other powers, Iranian Foreign...
Jill Stein’s Big Lies
JNS.org - The far-left US Green Party marked a significant milestone in the current campaign cycle, when CNN broadcast a town hall debate with its presidential candidate, Jill Stein,...
Mahmoud Abbas’ Desperate Gesture
JNS.org - It’s been a long time since I saw a gesture this desperate. At the recent Arab Summit in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, the Palestinian...
Turkey After the Failed Coup: Fascism
JNS.org - We live in an era of resurgent, strongman leaders. Some of them, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, carry an aura of invincibility, a sense that...
Higher Stakes in Lebanon, 10 Years After Israel’s War Against Hezbollah
JNS.org - A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is once again facing a build-up on its northern...
