Clifford D. May / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Clifford D. May / JNS.org
The Iran Nuclear Deal Trump Wants
JNS.org - A fourth round of talks between Tehran’s envoys and Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s lead negotiator, did not take place in Rome...
Trump’s Question for Arab Rulers
JNS.org - More than 6 million Syrians fled their homeland during that country’s almost 14-year-long civil war. Other nations took them in. It was the...
What Would a Two-State Solution Solve?
JNS.org - I don’t oppose a two-state solution. Nor do I oppose Tinker Bell. I just seriously doubt that either exists. If you’re among those who...
Khamenei’s War Aims
JNS.org - I’m sure you’ve heard commentators describe the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel as “rivals” engaged in a “tit-for-tat” conflict. That misinterprets reality. Ali...
Tehran’s Weapons of Mass Distraction
JNS.org - In 1993, a massive truck bomb exploded at the World Trade Center, the first major international terrorist attack on American soil. Five years later,...
Lone Soldiers
JNS.org - “Israel Alone” was the headline on the cover of the March 23 issue of The Economist, the British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli...
Putin’s Defeat in Ukraine
JNS.org - Last Friday, President Biden announced new sanctions targeting 500 Russian officials and companies. His aim was to deliver the “devastating” consequences that, three years...
Murder in the Gulag
JNS.org - While Tucker Carlson was marveling over the opulence of Moscow’s subways, Alexei Navalny died in the “Polar Wolf” prison camp in northern Siberia. Navalny...
Sinwar Agonistes
JNS.org - Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind behind the Oct. 7 invasion of Israel and the worst single-day slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, is...
Israel’s Long, Hot Summer
JNS.org - From atop small mountain peaks in the Israeli Golan Heights you can peer deep into both Lebanon and Syria. On the Israeli side...
Iran’s Shadow War
JNS.org - Israelis battled Palestinians in the northern West Bank last week. That’s what most media reported and it’s true as far as it goes....
Lessons of the Energy Crisis
JNS.org - Energy policy is national security policy. So when political leaders get energy policy wrong, they get national security policy wrong. An obvious example: Germany...
Walk Like an Israeli
JNS.org - Imagine if Pope Francis were to say: “Only Christians are permitted in the Vatican! No Muslims and no Jews!” The “international community” would...
Anything Goes: How Extremist Ideologies Are Proliferating
JNS.org - Extremist ideologies are proliferating, and it has become taboo in what we used to call polite society to criticize ideas that, not long...









