More than just bad optics on immigration?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had a lot of bad days recently…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

The Saudis exit the conflict with Israel

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman made history after telling The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg that his country recognised the right of the Jews to “their own land.” Read more

Gaza and the worthlessness of international opinion

Was the Palestinian “March of Return” a propaganda success for Hamas? If you think Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a reliable barometer of international opinion, then maybe the answer is “yes.”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

The ‘March of Return’ explains a lot

For some in the Palestinians’ international cheering squad, the March 30 “Land Day” demonstrations could be a long-hoped for turning point…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Why won’t anyone listen to Abbas?

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas keeps telling the world what he thinks…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more

How much do the Palestinians pay for terror?

The foreign-policy establishment is scared—and with good reason…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

How to separate chaos from policy

Another day, another Trump outrage…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Don’t repeat nuclear history

It’s not clear what U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he can accomplish when he meets with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in May…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

From the embassy to an undivided Jerusalem

(JNS) It turns out that moving the U.S. embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem is even more controversial than some of the Trump administration’s critics thought…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Not indispensable, but also not easily replaced

For Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legion of critics, it was all just a big distraction from the main event…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

The empty talk of two states

Time was, the endorsement of a two-state solution by the executive director of AIPAC wouldn’t have been news…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

The embassy will move . . . and the world won’t end

Maybe it wasn’t such a big deal after all…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more

When abusing children is considered OK

Are the Palestinians finally catching on to the rules of Western public relations?…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Must Israel do America’s dirty work?

Whenever Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu uses props for his speeches, his critics pounce…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Let’s talk truthfully about the issues behind mass shootings

Jewish groups don’t hesitate to weigh in after the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., but the futile nature of the discussion about guns points toward more culture-war bitterness rather than solutions…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS. Read more

Jews and Poles don’t need to be enemies…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org

Jews and Poles spent most of the first half of the 20th century at each other’s throats. Must they continue on the same destructive path as we head further into the 21st century? Read more

Spare us your Holocaust hypocrisy

Last Saturday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date, which commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, is the one most of the world uses to remember the Shoah, even if Israel and most Jewish communities primarily employ another date a week after Passover in the Hebrew calendar for Yom HaShoah. Read more

What did you hear when Mike Pence spoke to the Knesset?

In Monday’s New York Times, columnist Max Fisher treated Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to Israel as just another expression of what he considers the divisive policies of the Trump administration…Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Why Trump’s Palestinian aid cut threat makes sense

We didn’t need the publication of a new book filled with behind-the-scenes gossip to know that Donald Trump is an unconventional and, at times, inappropriate president…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Defining ‘occupied’ and the semantic battle for peace

In a demonstration of how completely at odds his views are from those of the foreign policy establishment, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman reportedly asked the State Department to stop using the term “occupied territories” and instead refer to the “West Bank.”…writes Jonathan S.Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Time for a peace process paradigm change

What are the details of the Middle East peace plan that President Donald Trump will use to craft what he hopes is the “ultimate deal?”…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

How Balfour explains why the peace process failed

It was a minor news story when it broke in the summer of 2016. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas announced he was suing Great Britain over the Balfour Declaration, issued on Nov. 2, 1917…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Interpol and the Palestinians: Where’s a cop when you need one?

The good news is that it turns out Interpol isn’t the international police agency that movies and television shows have led us to believe. The bad news is that the international community just gave the Good Housekeeping seal of approval to those who traffic in terrorism…writes Jonathan S. Tobin. Read more

Mengele, Charlottesville and the lessons of history

What can the hunt for Josef Mengele teach us about the challenges facing Jews today?…writes Jonathan Tobin. Read more

No good options for Netanyahu

The last two weeks was not a good time to be prime minister of Israel…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

The argument is about Jews, not metal detectors

To an objective observer, the crisis that erupted in the aftermath of a bloody terror attack near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount makes no sense…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org. Read more

Want a path to peace? Pound the table at Abbas

The most important incident during President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East took place out of view of the international press….writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more

Taking Trump seriously, but not literally, in the Middle East

In a seminal piece for The Atlantic last September, journalist Salena Zito explained a simple truth that most people hadn’t grasped about the man who was about to be elected the 45th president of the United States…writing Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more

Can Trump’s outside-in formula work? …asks Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org

Much of the attention being given to President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East has focused on whether his first foreign trip will provide much of a distraction from his growing domestic troubles. But the real substance centres on his plan to solve a problem that has eluded all of his predecessors: the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Read more

The foolish embassy expectations game

When President Donald Trump heads to the Middle East later this month, the world will be primarily watching closely to see if he makes any of his trademark gaffes that set off a cultural land mine in Saudi Arabia or Israel. But the more important question is whether he will use the trip to actually make policy…writes Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org Read more

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