Posts Tagged: foreign policy
Presidential Elections Place Turkey’s Future at Stake
Ailing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to face one of the biggest political challenges in his career this Sunday, as he seeks reelection...
Arab Ministers Discuss How to Normalize Ties with Syria
A group of Arab foreign ministers held a landmark meeting with their Syrian counterpart in Jordan on Monday to discuss how to normalize ties with Syria as part of a political settlement of the country's more...
UK Sanctions Suspected Hezbollah Financier
Britain has sanctioned an individual suspected of financing Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement, as part of an effort to "disrupt an international terrorist-financing operation", the British government said on Tuesday. The...
Allies Step Up Confrontation With Iran as US Looks to Scale Back From the Middle East
In recent months, the United States has sent unmistakable signals that, 20 years after 9/11, the era of its Middle East counter-terrorism mission is drawing...
Do Americans Have Foreign-Policy Principles or Just Partisan Interests?
JNS.org - As a general rule, the average American doesn’t care much about foreign policy as long as the discussion doesn’t involve sending Americans to...
The Taylor Force Act: Putting ‘Palestine’ in Perspective
"Congress is finally considering legislation to stop the Palestinian Authority from incentivizing violence…This has to stop, and the Taylor Force Act…attempts to do that. As...
Radical Iran-led Axis Finally Meets US Resistance
The conflict in Syria has long ceased being a civil war; rather, it has become a clash between coalitions and opposing blocs battling for control of the...
Israeli-Arab Party Leader Among Foreign Policy Magazine’s ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’
An Israeli-Arab politician was listed among Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015, the Israeli news site nrg reported on Tuesday. Member of Knesset Ayman Odeh, head of...
Jaffa Orange Republic: Towards the Ontogeny of Jewish Statehood in the 21st Century
Maturation in Jewry's Third Commonwealth will be signaled by conspicuous shifts in attitudes and approaches in diverse areas. The prevailing state of affairs - a state fraught with existential...
Revealed: Bubonic Plague Recipes, Neo-Nazi Screeds, Celine Dion and Banana Mousse on Seized ISIS Terrorist’s Computer
Call it the Laptop from Hell: a terrifying trove of documents discovered on a laptop computer apparently recently seized from an ISIS fighter in Syria show...
Jewish Warfare: A Traditional Perspective
In the timely hour of battle between Israel and its neighbors, it is helpful to recall the timeless principles of warfare set out in the...
Opinion: President Obama’s Moral Ambiguity on Hamas
Elie Wiesel is one of my greatest heroes and I've been lucky to have a warm friendship with him. I would rarely consider disagreeing with...
Yair Lapid Ranks 31 on Foreign Policy’s ‘Leading Global Thinkers’ List
Israeli political star, Yair Lapid, was ranked #31 on Foreign Policy's annual list of global thinkers to keep an eye on, released Friday. Lapid has staked out a space on...
UN Report to Confirm Chemical Weapons Used in Syria, But Avoid Ascribing Blame
A report set to be released by the United Nations on a chemical weapons attack in Syria last month will not directly accuse the Syrian...
