Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Donald Trump was overshadowed by dramatic and unsettling events that preceded and followed their perfectly bizarre press conference. The week began with the forced resignation of White House National Secur

As US President Donald Trump and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei trade barbs, a nervous Arab world is caught in the middle.Earlier this week, Iran’s supreme leader made headlines thanking Trump for “revealing the true face of America”.While much of Ayatollah Khamenei’s criticism was di

With a stroke of the pen on a misdirected and, I believe, malicious executive order (EO), President Donald Trump unleashed a dynamic that will, I fear, have consequences as far reaching and damaging to my country and my community as the Bush administration’s wrong-headed response

By now, Donald Trump’s penchant for exaggeration and self-promotion has become well established.Whether born of a form of pathological narcissism or just plain hucksterism, his need to claim that everything he does is the biggest and best is unsettling and, at times, embarrassing

When Donald Trump shows up for work this week, it is anyone’s guess as to what he will do. Over the past month, many reporters have asked me what I think Trump will do and what I am most concerned about.My simple answer has been: “I know what worries me most, but I have no i

In just a matter of days, President-elect Donald Trump will have to decide whether to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As we approach inauguration day, liberal and conservative commentators alike offer a number of ideas on how he can proceed. Ra

In the lead-up to Iran’s presidential election, a new Zogby Research Services (ZRS) poll shows that the Iranian people are not happy with either their economic situation or their government’s priorities and performance. The ZRS poll was conducted in the last quarter of 2016

Secretary of State John Kerry’s valedictory speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict unleashed a firestorm of criticism from the very same folks, who had just finished hyperventilating over the US abstention on a Security Council resolution a few days earlier.The speech, itself

There was considerable drama leading up to the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 (UNSCR 2334) reaffirming the illegality of Israeli settlements. It began with all hell breaking loose on Thursday morning when it became clear that the Egyptians would s