Posts Tagged: Barack Obama
Israelis and Palestinians Don’t Share Kerry’s Optimism on Peace Talks
JNS.org - While U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry returned from his Middle East trip last week with an optimistic message, following his latest...
Have the West and Iran Really Reached Rapprochement?
When describing the significance of the Geneva understandings between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany), the Arab world is...
Obama Shakes Hands With Cuban Strongman Raul Castro
USA Today - With a quick handshake, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro whipped up a frenzy Tuesday that led many to wonder...
Verification is the Elephant in the Room in the Iranian Nuke Deal
Verifying compliance with nuclear arms-control and nonproliferation agreements is undeniably a worthy objective. But verification is no panacea. It is never completely comprehensive or effective. It...
Obama’s Refusal to Hate Evil
The greatest moral failure of our time is a refusal to hate evil. Hatred of evil implies both the right to make judgments as well...
Obama Opposes Israel’s Request for Iran Nuclear Deal to Halt All Enrichment
JNS.org - President Barack Obama said he believes Iran can still have a peaceful nuclear program with "modest enrichment," while rejecting Israeli Prime...
Iran Nuclear Deal Doesn’t Pass Common Sense Test
Contrary to conventional "wisdom," Iran considers the U.S. and the Arab oil-producing Gulf States -- not Israel -- the primary target for its nuclear capabilities....
Obama Sides With Putin, Assad, and Khamenei
When protests broke out in Syria in late 2011, Russia hoped for a short, nasty war as a matter of Russian national interest -- just...
Iran Nuclear Deal Highlights Strategic, Cultural Differences Between Israel and America
JNS.org - The P5+1 powers and Iran over the weekend reached an interim agreement on Iran's nuclear program that highlights the cultural and...
Obama Boxes Himself In After Iran Nuclear Deal
The Obama Administration is entitled to be furious with Israel. Although the U.S. got bragging rights for its (one-sided-not-in-our-favor) deal with Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu...
The Nuclear Deal: Netanyahu vs. Obama
The deal that was struck in Geneva between Iran and the P5+ 1 (the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, China, and Germany) represents an important first...
Dermer: No Crisis in Israel-U.S. Relations
JPost - Israel's new ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, defended US President Barack Obama Wednesday night in a closed-door session with ...
Obama: Israeli Nobel Winner Kahneman ‘Basically Invented the Study of Human Decision Making’
American-Israeli Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman was one of 16 recipients Wednesday of the United States' highest civilian honor, The Presidential Medal of Freedom. In awarding...
Al Arabiya Chief: Obama Boosting Iran’s Confidence to Become Nuclear Country
Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed, the current director of Saudi-owned news outlet Al-Arabiya made highly critical remarks in a recent interview with Al-Sharq Al-Awsat about the United...









