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May 22, 2024, 3:42 PM

Biden’s empty “ironclad” promises to Israel

A version of this article appeared originally online in National Review. By Douglas J. Feith and Ze'ev Jabotinsky President Biden is “pausing” US arms shipments to Israel because he does not want a full-scale pursuit of Hamas into Rafah. Too many...

Feb 15, 2024, 2:19 AM

US Should Try to Empower a Whole New Palestinian Leadership

The reality is that a random set of business people would likely do a better job than the current bad actors. Who should control Gaza after the major combat stops? Can new, better Palestinian leaders be empowered? This is debatable. One...

Nov 16, 2023, 3:29 AM

Words as bullets, smokescreens and deceptions

Bad ideas and bogus phrases are playing a central role in Hamas’s strategy. I spent the first two weeks of the Hamas war in Jerusalem, with life punctuated by screaming air-raid sirens and the blessed booms of Iron Dome interceptions. Since...

Oct 24, 2023, 9:56 PM

Hamas Strategy and the Hospital Explosion

If people around the world grasped that Hamas ensures as many of its own civilians as possible will die, they would see the conflict in a different light. Hamas achieved a huge success on October 17, when an uncertain number of...

Oct 18, 2023, 10:12 AM

Hamas uses not human shields, but human sacrifice

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, October 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The terror group engineered the bombing of schools, hospitals, and mosques - making those who blame Israel for it complicit in the very cruelty they mean to condemn

May 18, 2021, 12:08 AM

The key to understanding Hamas

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has just warned against “this false equivalence between a terrorist group — Hamas — that is indiscriminately launching rockets at civilians and Israel, which is responding to those attacks.” Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has...

May 3, 2021, 9:53 PM

Isolationist Temptation and Biden’s Mideast Policy

The Biden administration appears to have no great ambitions in the Middle East. Its policy will likely reflect America’s inclination in recent years to relinquish global responsibilities. There are only two Middle Eastern issues – the Iran nuclear deal...

Mar 23, 2021, 7:58 AM

What’s Become of ‘Peace Now’ and the ‘Two-State Solution’?

The good news is that the Biden administration does not appear to be obsessed by the Israeli-Palestinian problem. The bad news is that some administration officials, when they do talk about Middle East peace, sound as if they have...

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Douglas J. Feith, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, served as U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (July 2001-August 2005).