Aaron T. Walter, at The Blogs

Jun 19, 2026, 5:53 PM

US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit, June 17, 2026, in Evian-les-Bains, France. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The memorandum of understanding reportedly reached between the United States and Iran may prove politically convenient in the short term, but strategic convenience and strategic success are rarely the same thing. If the reports are accurate, Washington has chosen a...

Jun 16, 2026, 5:51 AM

Trump’s Cash-for-Concessions Is Appeasement

President-elect Donald J. Trump arrives with U.S. President Barack Obama at the Capitol for the 58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2017.

Donald Trump seems ready to adopt a strikingly similar strategy, exchanging money for concessions, just months after harshly denouncing Barack Obama's Iran deal. This shocking change exposes hypocrisy and draws attention to a concerning trend: America's tendency to view...

Jun 9, 2026, 11:21 AM

The Christian Duty to Combat Antisemitism

Christians are obligated to uphold human dignity, speak the truth, and oppose the forces of hatred that aim to split people apart throughout history. Christians now confront a moral dilemma that goes beyond social activism or political preference as...

Jun 3, 2026, 2:25 PM

The Recurring Dance of Allies

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, December 29, 2025. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Alliances between the United States and Israel have frequently resembled a tumultuous marriage in the high-stakes world of Middle Eastern geopolitics: intensely devoted, strategically crucial, but prone to explosive disputes. Reports of yet another tense phone conversation between Israeli Prime...

May 28, 2026, 2:22 PM

The Unfinished Counter-Revolution

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft pulls away from a KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft in the US Central Command area of responsibility May 21, 2026. (US Air Force/ Adriana Jordan-Alcaniz)

The U.S. Must Finish the Job in Iran. The United States finds itself in strategic limbo. Mediated talks in Pakistan inch forward while American and Israeli bombs continue to strike Iranian military targets. The regime demands the release of $24...

May 18, 2026, 4:42 AM

The New Pogrom

There are moments in history when societies reveal not merely their political divisions but also their moral collapse. New York City, once the symbolic capital of Jewish security in the Diaspora, is beginning to show signs of such a...

May 11, 2026, 2:45 PM

Beyond the Deal: Trump Must Hold The Line

US President Donald Trump waves to reporters as he walks on the South Lawn upon his arrival to the White House, May 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

As diplomatic flurries intensify between Washington and Tehran, the US, Israel, and, indeed, the whole world find themselves at a pivotal moment reminiscent of the pre-JCPOA era. With Qatari and Pakistani mediators shuffling between Miami and Tehran, and the...

May 7, 2026, 11:05 AM

The Oldest Hatred Still Unlearned

The emergency summit convened this week by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer should never have been necessary. Yet it was. After the stabbing of two Jewish men in London’s Golders Green neighborhood, after arson attacks against Jewish targets, after counterterrorism...

May 5, 2026, 4:06 PM

The tools the West won’t use, the ones it should

Photo from https://iranhumanrights.org/2026/01/grave-concern-that-state-massacre-of-protesters-is-underway-in-iran-amid-internet-blackout/

Sanctions have failed. Military strikes are catastrophic. Diplomacy is stalled. What remains in the toolkit for those who want the Islamic Republic to change, and what are the honest limits of outside intervention? The Islamic Republic of Iran is not...

Apr 29, 2026, 5:55 AM

The Price of Victory: How Israel Is Squandering the Political Fruits in Lebanon

IDF soldiers in southern Lebanon, in 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah is strategically necessary. It is also being politically self-sabotaged in real time in Christian villages six kilometers from the Lebanese border. The case for destroying Hezbollah as a military force is not complicated. The organization...

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Dr. Aaron Walter teaches International Relations. He writes on American foreign policy towards Israel. In addition to topics directly related to U.S.-Israeli politics, he has written on the presidency and security studies as linked to U.S., Europe, and Israeli studies

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