Posts Tagged: Richard Nixon
Despite Personal Prejudice, Richard Nixon Did the Right Thing on Israel
For many, President Richard Nixon remains a villain. Until this very day, the journalist Carl Bernstein, who alongside Bob Woodward helped uncover the Watergate scandal,...
Trump Commutes Longtime Adviser Roger Stone’s Prison Sentence
President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under...
Putting Impeachment on Trial
I had not planned to write about the impeachment. Frankly, along with millions of other people living in the United States, and probably the rest...
US-Israel Relations Still Hang by a Thread
Sometimes, history’s turning points depend on small things. The 2000 presidential election outcome hinged on the interpretation of “hanging chads” from a small number of...
What We Thought of the Rev. Billy Graham
JNS.org – Perhaps the saddest thing about the death of the Rev. Billy Graham on Feb. 21, at the age of 99, was the fact that...
What Barack Obama Can Learn from Richard Nixon on Israel and Foreign Policy
Richard Nixon and Barack Obama are rarely compared. But the way these two presidents have dealt with crises in the Middle East provides instructive contrasts...
Opinion: Breaking Records With Shimon Peres
Israel's president Shimon Peres just set a "Guinness world record" for the world's largest civics class, teaching more than 9,000 high school students in 215...
The Politics of Altruism
As widespread unrest throughout the Muslim world continues, A Case for Democracy by former Soviet dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky is a must-read. Almost prophetic...
