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Ben Shai Shapira

Jun 20, 2025, 7:04 AM

The Peace Premium: Why Weakening Iran Pays Off

President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office, February 4, 2025. A moment underscoring renewed U.S.–Israel cooperation amid rising regional tensions.
Photo: Avi Ohayon/GPO Israel via gov.il (Public Domain)

“I’m Danny G. Wheeler and I’m alive.” For five hours, a U.S. Navy chaplain whispered those words beneath the rubble of a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 — leveled by a Hezbollah suicide bomber trained and armed by Iran. The explosion...

Jan 22, 2025, 4:09 AM

Trump Should Immediately Appoint an Abraham Accords Ambassador

On his first day back in office, President Trump demonstrated an unwavering commitment to reshaping U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly in support of Israel. By signing executive orders to reimpose sanctions on the International Criminal Court...

Dec 21, 2024, 12:44 AM

Israeli AutoTech and Expanding the Abraham Accords

Driving Towards Normalization: How the Israeli AutoTech Sector Can Fast Track a Deal with Saudi Arabia Eight years ago, President-Elect Donald Trump tasked a 39-year-old investment banker with no prior diplomatic experience to undertake what many in the media and...

Diane Joy Schmidt

Nov 18, 2024, 11:39 PM

About U.S. presidential election consequences

Sunset, Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA photo © by Diane Joy Schmidt

What resonates across the United States of America and Europe now, bringing a rightward swing and authoritarian governments to the ascendancy, is immigration. As used against the Other, a technique Jews are unfortunately very familiar with, the issue of...

Nina B. Mogilnik

Mar 7, 2024, 11:25 PM

Honoring Jared Kushner: The Perfect is Indeed Not the Enemy of the Good

Dear Mr. Greenblatt: I read recently of your honoring Jared Kushner at a prominent ADL event, for his role in the Abraham Accords, and in the name of Jewish communal unity in the aftermath of October 7th. I suppose those...

Aug 30, 2022, 7:07 PM

‘Breaking History’ and mindset in Washington

Jared Kushner's best seller "Breaking History" hits the shelves. The memoir is a ringside seat to transformational events from criminal justice reform to the Abraham Accords. (picture courtesy of S. Cushing)

Jared Kushner’s book “Breaking History” is not just a best seller but is a memoir that challenges the groupthink class of political pundits who made Trump bashing into an art form. Throughout the book, Kushner demonstrates how he was...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jan 2, 2021, 9:34 PM

Forecast: the next coalition will be the largest unity government, with a twist

The next Israeli government (after a couple of elections) will be formed by the Likud, all leftwing parties, the Ultra-Orthodox, and an Arab splinter. It's a calculated guess. Bibi will stay the most popular. The anti-Bibi right-wing will now take...

Dec 30, 2020, 12:12 PM

Where is David Friedman Square?

It was a few days after the US elections when several states were still counting ballots but it was a foregone conclusion that Biden had won. As a fresh American olah to Israel, the US elections were very much...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 26, 2020, 6:22 AM

Here it comes again, that feeling, here it comes again

Is Saudi Arabia suddenly kosher? The State of Israel was able to start a peace process with the PLO because the latter was lying on its political deathbed. However, we forgot to make sure that they forgo being a bunch...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 12, 2020, 2:23 PM

Trump for 2024?

I've read already that Trump could run for 2024. He would love to. He has nothing else to do with his life, anyway. And to prepare 2028 for his daughter Kushner. But, that's not even the biggest question. Bigger is:...

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