August
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Iran is playing a dangerous game
There are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of Benjamin Netanyahu’s motives. But Tehran has an even uglier strategy to disrupt the Middle East.
July
- Opinion
- US election
Both men running for US president are unfit for the job
One is a good man in obvious cognitive and physical decline, and the other is a bad man who lies as he breathes – and who is in his own cognitive tailspin.
June
Biden is a good man and my friend, but he must bow out
We are at the start of the biggest disruptions in human history, so if there was ever a time the world needs America at its best, it is now.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel needs to get the hell out of Gaza
The extremists in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government have led a reckless act of economic, military and moral overstretch.
May
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why the campus protests are so troubling
Hamas is against the existence of a Jewish state and believes there should be an Islamic state between the river and the sea. When protests on college campuses ignore that, they are part of the problem.
April
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel has a fateful choice to make: Rafah or Riyadh?
If Israel ends up with an indefinite occupation of both Gaza and the West Bank, it would be a toxic military, economic and moral overstretch that would delight Iran.
March
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Things have gone terribly wrong in Gaza. They could get worse soon
There is only one thing worse for Israel, not to mention Palestinians, than a Gaza controlled by Hamas: That’s a Gaza where nobody is in charge.
February
- Opinion
- US politics
Donald Trump’s party has become a cult with no coherent platform
The Republican Party has become a cult with no coherent platform other than what side of the bed their likely presidential candidate woke up on.
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Biden Doctrine: biggest Middle East shift in 45 years is coming
America’s approach to Iran, a Palestinian state and Saudi Arabia are at the heart of a possible strategic realignment.
January
- Opinion
- World politics
A titanic geopolitical struggle is underway
While the two battlefronts – Russia v Ukraine and Israel v Hamas – may look very different, they actually have a lot in common.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why Netanyahu is turning against Biden
Israel has been at war with Hamas for more than 100 days and still has more than 100 hostages to recover, but Netanyahu’s No. 1 focus is Netanyahu.
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Hamas could have built its own Dubai. It chose war with Israel
Not only would the world have lined up to aid and invest in it, it would have been the most powerful springboard conceivable for a Palestinian state in the West Bank.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
It’s time to turn the tables in the war with Hamas
From the start of this war, there has been an asymmetry: Israel has to answer every day for its mistakes and excesses. Hamas has never had to. Time to turn the tables.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What worries me about the Gaza war after my trip to Arab states
No Gulf Arab state will come into Gaza with bags of money to rebuild it unless Israel has a legitimate Palestinian partner and commits to a two-state solution.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why Israel should call for a permanent ceasefire
Wiping out Hamas is an unattainable goal, and getting stuck in Gaza would be a disaster.
November 2023
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Three reasons Israel is in real danger
It is crystal clear to me that Israel is in real peril – more so than at any time since its war of independence in 1948.
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The growing case for restraint against Hamas
Israel needs to know the tolerance of its American ally for massive civilian casualties in Gaza in an open-ended military operation is not unlimited.
October 2023
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Israel is about to make a terrible mistake
Rushing into Gaza could trigger a global conflagration and explode the pro-American alliance structure developed since the end of the Yom Kippur war in 1973.
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Why a Gaza invasion is wrong for Israel
If Israel announced that it was forgoing, for now, a full-blown invasion of Gaza, who would be happy, who would be relieved, and who would be upset.
September 2023
- Opinion
- Joe Biden
Octogenarian Joe Biden’s diplomatic wisdom of the ages
I’m not getting into the debate about whether Biden is too old to run for re-election. I’m just telling you that when it comes to diplomacy, age and experience are his greatest assets.