Wendy Sherman and her foreign-policy team decided that nuclear restrictions alone were worth the price of releasing $150 billion and legitimizing the Iranian regime as a threshold nuclear state.
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Regarding Iran, at least this administration recognizes that the mullahs bargain in bad faith and weaponize diplomacy.
Israel’s Lebanon quagmire
A familiar dilemma exists: to reoccupy Southern Lebanon, which might push Hezbollah north of the Litani River. But that doesn’t remove the terror group’s long-range capabilities or prevent its rebuilding.
Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran: As the region veers toward war and opportunities are lost, chaos is starting to run the bases.
Feigning interest in peace with Jerusalem has long been a tactic for extracting concessions from Washington and diverting attention from Riyadh’s extremism.
Israel survived the war, but is now tethered to an unpredictable ally whose support comes with humiliating conditions and whose electorate is steadily losing interest in maintaining the bond.
Unexpected consequences in Syria
If the new regime abandons its radical Islamic roots and joins the Abraham Accords, then Israel may achieve the unimaginable: turning its longest-standing foe into a partner.
Ironically, the decisive blow against the terrorist group may come not from the Israel Defense Forces, but from Beirut.
Though critics pretend otherwise, Jerusalem has exercised restraint that no other military would. It has bent over backward to protect civilians—at enormous strategic and political cost.
Contrary to the image of a population being erased, demographics show otherwise and contradict rumors of famine.
