The Donald Trump Negotiations Academy
Trump’s playbook involves doing essentially the opposite of what American and Israeli negotiators have been doing for the past 30 years.
Between Kim and Qom: Iran and North Korea
The Trump-Kim summit raises more questions than it has yet been able to answer. And the Iranians await those answers with bated breath because a very short rope connects Tehran to North Korea.
Will The Middle East Be Trump’s Next Peace Deal?
The Trump-Kim summit generated a renewed sense of hope along with questions about the future.
Keep Your Eyes on Iran. Syria. Iran in Syria
It’s an irony that as Russia celebrated Victory Day, 73 years since the Allied victory of the tyranny of the Nazis, President Putin hosted Prime Minister Netanyahu as an honored guest.
Trump’s ‘Madness’ May be Doing the Trick
An American success vis-à-vis North Korea will weaken Iran’s bargaining position, which in turn will affect Trump’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. There is a difference between a plan presented by an inarticulate and rejected US president and a peace plan presented by a president who has scored significant achievements in the international arena.
Trump’s International Art of the Deal
But President Trump’s Syria strikes have reopened the debate over what defines his foreign policy. Is he an interventionist or an isolationist? Foreign policy experts claim that he’s making it up as he goes along.
An Obama Photo Worth a Thousand Lies
When a major Obama news photo story broke, the media was there to capture it. A 2-year-old girl was photographed looking at a really terrible painting of Michelle Obama.
Altogether Bewildering Challenges
US President Donald Trump, plainly over his depth in strategic matters, could soon be faced with unprecedented challenges to American national security. In this connection, the most expectedly daunting threats will concern some forms or other of nuclear strategy and nuclear war.
Estimating Risks of an Israel-Iran Nuclear War
Israel-Iran Nuclear War: it may be sensible to study what is currently happening between Washington and Pyongyang as a suitable “model” for ascertaining Israel’s long-term existential threats originating from Iran.
When Trump Tweets, Let The Palestinians Tremble
The Pakistanis, he correctly noted, “give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan.”