Posts Tagged: Trump
Pompeo’s Justified Low Expectations for the Mideast Peace Plan
JNS.org - In a private meeting on May 28 with the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged...
A Middle Ground on Trump and Orbán at the White House
Despite the fact that the Trump administration has spent two years communicating its concerns with Hungary regarding academic freedom, antisemitism, and other illiberal positions of...
Anticipating Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
JNS.org - Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict surfaced two years ago, and to this day -- remarkably -- only he and a...
After the Mueller Report
Donald Trump remains oddly deferential to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the growing animosity between Washington and Moscow. Both international and US law unequivocally require...
Is Trump’s Approach to Iran and North Korea the Best Approach?
President Donald Trump’s currently failing “maximum pressure” approach to Iran, as well as North Korea, begs the question what his true objectives are and what...
After Trump’s Worrying Moves, America’s Asian Allies Should Adjust Their Security Policies
For many years, the cost of the deployment of US forces in South Korea and Japan has been a key matter of discussion between Washington...
The US Withdrawal From Afghanistan Is Dangerous, But Could It End Well?
The US decision to withdraw about 7,000 troops from Afghanistan in the coming months seems to go against recent developments inside that country. Afghanistan just...
The Iranian Kurds: Betrayed by Iran, the US, and Almost Everyone Else
The gloomy situation of the Kurdish minority in Iran is ironic in light of the fact that during the short life (January-December 1946) of the...
Ilhan Omar Is the Donald Trump of the Left
The remarks that Ilhan Omar has made over the past few days -- and watching how her fans on social media are responding to them...
Is Jared Kushner Right? Can Middle East Peace Be Bought?
JNS.org - The senior adviser to president Donald Trump, Jared Kushner, is on fundraising tour this week, but it’s not to raise money for his...
Trump and the Left Are Wrong: America Must Take an Active Role in the World
JNS.org - Precipitously and with no plan in place, Donald Trump announced late last year his intention to withdraw all American troops from Syria. Until then,...
Why Jordan Is the Key to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Last week’s Mideast security conference in Poland might have looked like a bust for the Trump administration, which hoped to consolidate European support for a...
Waiting Out Trump?
The headline in the February 5 Washington Post, “Europe’s strategy on Trump: Hope for no second term,” captured the sentiment of not only leaders around...
Donald Trump: It Can Happen Here
Times are changing. In 1960, when I was still in high school, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. Immediately and intelligently,...
