Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
A House Divided Cannot Stand
Throughout my entire life, love for Israel has been a primary motivating factor, a personal passion, and the focus of my career. I was blessed to have been born some years after Israel’s miraculous rebirth…Read More
April 11, 2023
Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas: Israel Now Faces the Perfect Storm of a Multi-front War
In just three months, Israel’s government of national lunacy has eroded its international standing, its domestic coherence and its national security. And our genocidal enemies are watching our self-inflicted disarray with glee… Read More
April 9, 2023
A House Divided Will Not Stand
Israel is convulsed by self-inflicted divisions that are wracking its society and economy, undermining its democracy and threatening irs national security… Read More
March 26, 2023
Israel-US Relations: Nothing Lasts Forever
After a disconnect of around two months, President Biden called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to the White House’s statement, the President addressed the two main issues that are now of concern to the administration… Read More
March 23, 2023
What would the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander say?
To: President Raisi. Top-secret, for your eyes only. Urgent. From: Hossein Salami, Commander, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. Praise Allah, the end of the Zionist entity, “Israel,” is at hand...Read More
March 12, 2023
Israel Still Should Not Provide Weapons to Ukraine
The first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an appropriate time to assess Israel’s policies toward it, chiefly its refusal to sell weapons to Ukraine. The need for this assessment is particularly acute given the close strategic relationship… Read More
March 4, 2023
In Israel’s Current Crisis, AIPAC Is Vital and J Street Is Dangerou
No matter how well-meaning they are and how objectionable they find Netanyahu’s coalition, U.S. Jews should not lobby U.S. politicians against Israel’s democratically elected government… Read More
February 9, 2023
For the Glory of Netanyahu: Israel Will Become an Illiberal Democracy
Israel will become a kleptocracy, in which the never-ending array of public figures convicted, or under investigation, for corruption and malfeasance, become the norm. Under the guise of reform, Israel will become an illiberal democracy, akin to Turkey or… Read More
January 18, 2023
For Netanyahu, Israel’s Democracy Is Just Collateral Damage
Netanyahu, his justice minister and his far-right allies are conducting a demolition derby of Israel’s state institutions and its foreign relations. An illiberal future beckons – as does The Hague, and lethal conflict within and across Israel’s borders…Read More
January 16, 2023

Military Aid to Israel Must Remain Unconditional
Israel never promised the Diaspora a Jewish Disneyland, or a rose garden, and the level of knowledge most American Jews have of Israel’s complex society and security is embarrassingly superficial… Read More
December 14, 2022
Israel’s New Coalition Is Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
Israel is entering one of the most perilous periods in its history. Forget about hawks vs. doves: From relations with the U.S. to rampaging settlers, from a crisis in the IDF to Hezbollah, Netanyahu has put us in uncharted water…Read More
December 12, 2022
Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs
Facing An Uncertain Future: Post Election Israel
Israel has a new, ultra-hardline government. The Likud itself, the most moderate component in the new coalition, has pivoted in this direction as well. The moderating forces of the past, are no longer there…Read More
v.16 Winter 2022
Israel’s New Coalition Is Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
Israel is entering one of the most perilous periods in its history. Forget about hawks vs. doves: From relations with the U.S. to rampaging settlers, from a crisis in the IDF to Hezbollah, Netanyahu has put us in uncharted water…Read More
December 12, 2022
Israel’s New Government and the Implications for Israeli Foreign Policy
The most far-right government in Israel’s history will soon take office. Unlike most Israeli coalitions, the new one appears likely to live out most, if not all, of its four-year mandate… Read More
Strategic Comments V28, November 2022
Why Israel Must Learn to Live Without Massive American Military Aid
Military assistance has been the holy grail of the ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and Israel. But as those billions of dollars become increasingly controversial, Israel needs to think differently about working with its closest strategic partner…Read More
October 12, 2022
A Two-State Solution Is Israel’s Only Option
Given the urgent need for a two-state settlement, Israel should pursue a revitalized peace process by building off the Abraham Accords…. Read More
October 10, 2022
Ignore Bibi’s Bluster: Israel Must Back Biden on Iran Deal
Israel can’t take on Iran alone. After the catastrophic Trump-Netanyahu exit from the nuclear deal, Israel’s leaders should park the tedious rhetoric and work urgently, and as closely as possible, with the Biden administration…Read More
August 30, 2022
17 Years Later: Did Israel’s Gaza Withdrawal Aid Peace?
Seventeen years ago this week, Israel withdrew from Gaza and dismantled the seventeen settlements that existed there. To demonstrate that it was prepared to go ahead on the West Bank as well, Israel dismantled four settlements there, too… Read More
August 13, 2022
Next Time Israel Fights Gaza, It Could Face a Nuclear Iran
How Israel responds to military pressure from the Palestinian enclave – and from Hezbollah – would be radically different if their patron Iran crosses the nuclear threshold…Read More
August 9, 2022
Netanyahu’s Nihilistic, All-out War on Israel
We dodged a bullet at the last elections. But if Netanyahu wins in November, Israel would be led by the most radical, darkest forces in its history…Read More
July 6, 2022
55 Years Later: How the Six-Day War Forever Changed Israel
Few are familiar today with the strategic circumstances and dramatic crisis atmosphere that surrounded the war’s outbreak. In fact, the war was a turning point in the entire history of the Arab-Israeli conflict…. Read More
June 5, 2022
How Israel Squandered Its Dramatic Victory in the Six-Day War
In June 1967, when the Six-Day War broke out, Israel had just turned 19, a plucky young state still living in the immediate shadow of the Holocaust. Israel was surrounded by enemy states avowed to its destruction…Read More
June 2, 2022
Israel Is Hardly ‘Indifferent’ on Ukraine
The burden of Jewish history means that Israel can and should do more to assist Ukraine, but like all states, its foremost moral commitment must be to its own security… Read More
May 12, 2022
Stop Abusing the Holocaust. Israel Is Doing Everything It Can for Ukraine
As I write, air raid sirens have just sounded their somber, eerie annual wail throughout Israel in memory of the six million. That so much of the Holocaust took place in Ukraine made this year’s Remembrance Day particularly poignant. … Read More
May 1, 2022
IRGC Terror Designation Should Not Prevent Iran Nuclear Deal
A nuclear deal with Iran is critical to Israel’s national security. A lifting of the US designation of the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, the primary outstanding obstacle to a renewed deal, is a symbolic issue that should not be allowed to get in the way… Read More
April 29, 2022
Israel’s Spyware Sector Will Survive the NSO Pegasus Scandal
The international trade in digital surveillance tools has long been controversial, particularly their sale to repressive governments that have allegedly used them to target dissidents and journalists… Read More
April 26, 2022
This Is Israel’s Only Way to Stop Iran’s Nuclear Missiles
Opponents of a renewed nuclear agreement with Iran may have found the dealbreaker they long sought. The US has apparently decided to reject Tehran’s demand that it remove the Revolutionary Guards from the “terrorist list”… Read More
April 18, 2022
What Israel Can Do for Ukraine – and What It Can’t
Israel faces growing pressure to take a more explicitly pro-Ukrainian position, but it fears angering Russia. On Iron Dome, mediation, field hospitals and cold hard reality, this is what Israel can actually offer Ukraine Read More
March 6, 2022
On Iran, Israel Must Not Stand Alone
Israel has no greater friend than the United States. Indeed, few great powers have ever demonstrated a deeper commitment to the security and well-being of a small regional ally. In a nuclear crisis with Iran, the United States would have Israel’s back. Probably… Read More
February 4, 2022
For Russia and Iran, the Ukraine Crisis Is Already a Success. For Israel, It’s Bad News.
The Ukraine crisis is a no-win situation for Israel, caught between America and Russia. But the impact of the crisis on Israel’s national security goes far further – taking in Iran, the Gulf and China… Read More
February 3, 2022
It’s un-Jewish to Be Too Optimistic. But in Israel, There’s Now Faint Cause for Hope
This time last year, Israel faced a nearly perfect storm. Netanyahu’s no-holds barred attempts to remain in office, at virtually all costs, had shaken the very foundations of Israeli democracy. The economy was in a tailspin and unprecedented domestic tensions… Read More
January 16, 2022
This Is What Would Happen if Israel Strikes Iran
Since the fading of an imminent nuclear deal, there’s been plenty of ink spilt opining, wrongly, that Israel has no military option. If Israel finds itself facing Iran alone, it will strike – and this is how Tehran’s retaliation will play out. Read More
December 26, 2021
The National Unity Government in Israel
In June 2021, a national-unity coalition came to power in Israel after a chaotic period in which four elections held over the course of two years had failed to produce a stable governing majority. A sense of normality has now returned… Read More
Strategic Comments V27, December 2021
Hamas Came Out Ahead in the Gaza War. Here’s How Israel Can Turn Adversity Into Victory
After 11 days of fighting, a welcome calm prevails once again. Much to our regret, however, we cannot but conclude that the overall outcome of this round leans in Hamas’ favor. Many walls fell during Operation Guardian of the Walls. Read More
May 24, 2021
On Iran and America, Israel Must Now Make Fateful Strategic Choices
Israel stands today at a strategic crossroads, before two interrelated decisions of critical importance: Iran, and our relationship with the United States. The U.S. is determined to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement and, apparently, so too is Iran. Read More
April 22, 2021
Killing Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Chief Was Justified. But It Wasn’t Wise
The question is not whether Israel was justified, if involved, in the targeted killing of Iran’s atomic chief. It was, and the world is a better place for it. The question is whether it was a smart move. Let me offer the following ten criteria for making that call. Read More
October 30, 2020
Netanyahu’s Plot Against Israel
The deterioration of Israel’s democracy was surprisingly rapid. The third lockdown led to an unlimited state of emergency: The premier told us he had no alternative Read More
October 7, 2020
Special Coverage – Israel, UAE, Bahrain Agreements: Trump Just “Outed” the Anti-Iran Axis
The “outing” of the anti-Iran axis, notwithstanding, the agreements cannot hide the overall failure of Trump’s and Netanyahu’s policies towards Iran. Read More
September 16, 2020
Can a Nuclear-armed Saudi Arabia Be Israel’s Partner for Peace?
While Israel’s PM was busy subjugating an entire nation to three rounds of elections , to the self-inflicted catastrophe known as annexation, and to his dismal failure to address the COVID and economic crises,the nuclearization of the Middle East has continued unabated. Read More
September 1, 2020
Israel’s View of the Lebanese Armed Forces: A Complex Picture
As tensions mount on the Israeli-Lebanese border, the role of Lebanon’s official military must not be overlooked. Defining an Israeli perspective of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is more complex than meets the eye. Read More
July, 2020
Annexation is a Mess: This Isn’t the Way to Run a Country
Less than two weeks from the target date for annexation no one, including the prime minister, knows what we are talking about, 30% as under the Trump Plan, Jordan Valley nd blocs, just the blocs? Hebrew Only. Read More
June 21, 2020
How Israeli Annexation May Trigger a Multi-front War Within Weeks
Israel stands before one of the most difficult periods it has ever known, just about a perfect storm.The political and judicial crisis surrounding Netanyahu’s trial has barely begun. Read More
June 17, 2020
Israel’s Elections
The formation of a new government in Israel on 17 May 2020 ended a lengthy and tumultuous political impasse in which three legislative elections failed to deliver a clear majority to one party or coalition. The sense of resolution lasted only a week. Read More
Strategic Comments V26, June 2020
Rare Scrolls from 2070 Discovered – Glimpse into History of Previous Half-Century
Rare scrolls from 2070, that shed as yet unknown light on events of the previous half-century, were recently discovered near the Dead Sea. It turned out that Israel never recovered from the coronavirus. Israel’s health system… Hebrew only. Read More
May 30, 2020
The ”Dayenu” School of Foreign Policy – 2020
Two years ago I announced with all due flourish and panoply, the establishment of a new school of foreign policy thought, to be known henceforth and throughout the generations, as the “Dayenu School.” In just a remarkably short time, the new school has gained a place of pride alongside the venerable “realist” and “liberal” schools. Read More
April 2, 2020
Beny Gantz’s Humiliating Surrender Ends All Hope
Benny Gantz’s decision to join a Netanyahu led-coalition puts an end to hopes for a change in government in Israel. By foregoing, without any struggle, the chance he was given to form a government, or to pass the promised legislation blocking… Hebrew only. Read More
March 30, 2020
Trump Is Failing to Protect Israel Against Iran
The beginning of the final and critical year of President Trump’s first term, during which we will find out whether he is reelected to a second, is a fitting time to assess his achievements in the Middle East to date. Read More
January 21, 2020
The One Move Trump Should Make to Actually Defend Israel
Between salvos of Hamas rockets, Netanyahu shenanigans and Trump’s antics, you may have missed the really big news, an issue which will have lasting effects on the U.S.- Israel relationship: are the two states now nearer than ever to signing a defense treaty? Read More
December 8, 2019
My Day With the West Bank Settlers Who Are Destroying Zionism
I recently returned from a visit to a different reality. I was part of a group of former senior defense officials conducting a series of meetings in the West Bank with heads of the regional councils and the settler movement, rabbis and politicians. Read More
October 10, 2019
Israel Election Results: Netanyahu Will Pull Out All the Stops – Including Military Action – to Hold on to Power
The final results from Israel’s do-over elections are not yet in, but barring entirely unrealistic developments, Benjamin Netanyahu’s long reign as king-premier will soon be over. To be sure, Israel faces a protracted period of ugly coalition machinations… Read More
September 18, 2019
This Is Israel’s Last Ever Zionist Election
For decades commentators have warned that the politico-military and societal processes underway in Israel pose severe dangers to our national future, and therefore that each of the previous round of elections were nothing less than critical. Read More
September 12, 2019
Never waste a good crisis
Coercive diplomacy is a legitimate part of national security decision-making, and even Trump critics must acknowledge that the policy of “maximal pressure” has placed Iran under extreme duress. The objective is not to cause Iran pain, but to… Read More
July 29, 2019
Enlightened, Beautiful, Two-state Israel Should Declare Independence
If the upcoming elections don’t produce real change, if West Bank annexation becomes reality, if democratic norms and the rule of law continue to deteriorate, we need a new partition plan – this time, for Israel itself. Read More
June 30, 2019
Annexation for Exoneration: How BiBi Betrayed the Zionist Dream
It is to be hoped that Netanyahu is too smart and politically adroit to accede to the more extreme versions of annexation espoused by his coalition partners. Read More
May 19, 2019
The ”Dayenu” School of Foreign Policy – 2019
One year ago, I announced, with great fanfare, the establishment of a new school of foreign policy thought, destined to take its place in the pantheon of the long existing “realist” and “liberal” schools. The new school was named, and will be known throughout the generations, as the “Dayenu School”. Read More
April 18, 2019
Israel’s Elections
Prime Minister Netanyahu faces the most serious political challenge to his premiership for the past decade in the general election on 9 April. Despite being beset with corruption allegations and facing meaningful opposition, Netanyahu remains the most likely… Read More
Strategic Comments V25, April 2019
The Asad Regime Won Syria’s Civil War: Can It Survive an Israeli Attack?
The Syrian conflict has triggered Israel’s primal fear: the threat of an entrenched Iranian presence on its borders. If a resurgent, unreliable Russia doesn’t step in, then Assad and his army will be Israel’s first targets. Read More
March 10, 2019
The War That Will Decide Israel’s Future Won’t Involve Airstrikes, Tanks or Missiles
Many among Israel’s secular public, the majority of the population, have come to accept the contention put forward by the religious parties and others, that the ultra-orthodox Jewish population cannot be forced to serve in the IDF, study the core school curriculum. Read More
January 23, 2019
For the First Time, Israel Faces an Adversary Too Powerful to Be Defeated
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenai recently outlined a draft version of a vision for Iran for the next 50 years. The vision calls for Iran to become one of the world’s top five countries in science and technology, one of the top seven in “progress and justice…Read More
January 9, 2019
A delusional solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked recently raised a new proposal for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Shaked, Areas A and B in the West Bank (which are under the varying levels of control of the Palestinian Authority), Gaza and Jordan … Read More
December 14, 2018
‘Get Used to the Rockets’: What Netanyahu Should Tell Israelis Living Near Gaza
In this candid – and imaginary – letter to the residents of Sderot, the Israeli PM recognizes there is no quick military or political solution to the conflict with Hamas. Read More
December 3, 2018
Why Israel Will End Up Facing Iran Alone
Eureka! Saudi Arabia, as the “enlightened” international community has recently learned, is not a cuddly country. Its regime is probably the most heinous on earth, but it took the gruesome murder of one journalist…Read More
November 1, 2018
Ending the Impasse the Trumpian Way
The Oslo Accords, signed 25 years ago in Washington, held out the promise of an historic breakthrough to Israeli-Palestinian peace. For the first time, the two primary rivals in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the bitterest, who had declared that they would never talk… Read More
October, 2018
Donald Trump Is Right to Coerce the Palestinians
The prospects for a two-state solution are dissipating in front of our very eyes, due to changes on the ground and the Israeli and Palestinian sides’ differences. The Trump administration is trying to find a way out of the impasse,as it is so often does, by breaking things. Read More
October 31, 2018
Flaming Kites, Hezbollah and Iranian Nukes
Bucking perceptions abroad of a country in crisis, life is good in Israel, even if existential threats loom just beyond the horizon. Read More
August 14, 2018
In the Middle East the Russians Aren’t Coming: They Are Back
Four decades after the US largely succeeded in sidelining the Soviet Union in the Middle East and becoming the leading regional, Russia is resurrecting its long-lost standing. The process of partial American disengagement from the region that began under Obama Read More
August 13, 2018
A better Iran deal has to be better for Iran, too
Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran deal, an outcome Prime Minister Netanyahu went to extreme lengths to help promote, was a major success for him, one of a number in recent months. If elections were held today, Netanyahu would be reelected easily. Read More
July 19, 2018
Trump’s Mayhem Allows Putin’s Russia to Take Over the Middle East, One Country at a Time
In recent years Russia has staged a comeback in the Mideast, big time, to the extent that it may replace the US as the leading foreign power in the region. Russia’s success results from a combination of both deft diplomacy and weapons and nuclear reactor sales… Read More
July 19, 2018
A better Iran deal has to be better for Iran, too
Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 Iran deal, an outcome Prime Minister Netanyahu went to extreme lengths to help promote, was a major success for him, one of a number in recent months. If elections were held today, Netanyahu would be reelected easily. Read More
July 19, 2018
Trump Has No Coherent Strategy on Iran. Astonishingly, Neither Does Israel
More than a month after the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, its strategy for containing Iran’s nuclear program and regional expansionism remains murky. Having worked tirelessly for the agreement’s abrogation, this should be Netanyahu’s finest hour. Read More
June 24, 2018
From Pyongyang to Tehran, Jerusalem and back
Pyongyang is about as far from Israel as possible. Israelis could be excused if they thought that the the summit between President Trump and N. Korean Leader Kim Jong Un had little direct importance for them. However, it has wide ranging ramifications for Israel. Read More
June 14, 2018
Why Israel Needs to Escalate Its Threats Against Iran – Right Now
Israel faces two severe threats today that may soon require some very difficult decisions, possibly leading to war. The Iranian-Hezbollah axis in the north is growing stronger, under Russian auspices, with Iran reportedly trying to establish permanent baes Read More
April 13, 2018
Israel at 70: Strong enough to chart a new national course
At 70 Israel has become a stable and prosperous state, a vibrant if discordant democracy, the “startup nation”. Ben-Gurion stated that if its Jewish population ever reached five million, its existence would be assured. It now numbers 6.5 million. Read More
April 10, 2018
The ‘dayenu’ school of foreign policy – 2018
A high point of the Passover Seder is the jubilant song “Dayenu” (“it is enough”), fortuitously sung just before an enervating sense of lethargy, induced by prodigious caloric intake and an excess of holiday ritual, begins to set in. Read More
March 27, 2018
The Middle East Is Marching Toward Israel’s Nuclear Nightmare Scenario
While our leaders in Jerusalem were giddily drinking champagne and Washington was proudly trumpeting tweets, the Middle East continued its march towards the nightmare scenario of a region with multiple nuclear actors. Read More
March 1, 2018
My Reasons for Recommending a Defense Treaty between the U.S. and Israel
It could secure the Zionist project by helping to sell Israelis on a peace deal with the Palestinians, and it could help to cement Israel’s long-term relationship with America. Read More
February 26, 2018
Has Israel Grown Too Dependent on the United States?
Israel’s relationship with the US is a fundamental pillar of its national security. Militarily, diplomatically, and economically, American support has for decades been a vital strategic enabler. Washington is usually Israel’s first Read More
February 5, 2018
The two-state solution is the only game in town
The New York Times recently joined the growing clamor warning of the possible demise of the two-state solution. The failure to reach a two-state solution does not mean, however, that a one-state solution, or some other approach, is preferable. Read More
January 28, 2018
A Good Deal for Israel
The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, responded to the Iran deal as expected: It is bad, endangers Israel, he argued; we are against it and will be the only American ally not only to oppose it, but to go down gloriously, fighting a battle in Congress that we are destined to lose. Read More
July 19, 2015
Op-eds 2006-2017
A Highly Confidential Letter to Presidential Envoy Jason Greenblatt, Haaretz, November 26, 2017
Iran Isn’t Going Anywhere. Neither Is Israel, Haaretz, November 1, 2017
As Iranian Influence Grows in Syria, Little Is Quiet on Israel’s Northern Front, World Politics Review, October 27, 2017
Nuclear Dilemmas, Haaretz, October 8, 2017
How to Improve the Iran Nuclear Deal, The American Interest, October 3, 2017
Why Israelis Should Hope the Palestinian National Movement Is Not Dead Yet, Haaretz, September 18, 2017
Pyongyang, Corner of Dizengoff Street, Haaretz, August 23, 2017
Can Israel Survive the End of the Pax Americana?, Haaretz, July 20, 2017
How Long Could Israel Survive Without America?, Newsweek, July 14, 2017
Re-Open the Syrian Chemical File, Haaretz, May 10, 2017
Keep AIPAC Out Of It, Haaretz, April 5, 2017
Trump and the Promised Land, the American Interest, March 31, 2017
It Won’t Be a Jewish State Anymore, Haaretz, February 26, 2070
Israel’s Dependence on the United States Is Existential, Haaretz, February 4, 2017
How the Israel Defense Forces Got Dragged into Israel’s Culture Wars, World Policy Review, January 25, 2017
The Messiah Hasn’t Come, He Only Tweets, Haaretz, January 18, 2070
Colossal, but Wise? Haaretz, January 4, 2017
Clinton is Better Suited to Handle the Middle East, Jerusalem Post, October 26, 2016
Dear Mr. Alpher, Give Me a Break, Haaretz, October 5, 2016
The Third Lebanon War, Haaretz, August 23, 2016
The Mouse That Roared – Once Too Often, Yediot Aharonoth, March 24, 2016
AIPAC Had No Choice, Jerusalem Post, October 17, 2015
The Middle East After the Iran Nuclear Deal, Council on Foreign Relations, September 7, 2015
Israel’s Least Bad Options After the Iran Deal, World Politics Review, August 26, 2015
The President’s Speech: Choosing Between Mom and Dad, Yediot Aharonoth August 6, 2015
Only the Defense Strategy Remains Unchanged, Haaretz, August 4, 2015
Iran Deal is the Least Bad Option for Israel, Huffington Post, July 21, 2015
A Good Deal for Israel, New York Times, July 20, 2015
Endangering Israel’s Security, Jerusalem Post, July 20, 2015
“The Experts Assess the Iran Agreement of 2015: Chuck Freilich’s, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 17, 2015
It’s Actually Good for Israel, Yediot Aharonoth, July 15, 2015
Netanyahu Prepares for a Gunfight, Haaretz, April 14, 2015
Netanyahu Undermines Battle Against Nuclear Iran, Haaretz, February 17, 2015
A “Big Bang” in Israeli Politics, The American Interest, January 2015,
From Decisive Defeat to Restraint, Haaretz, December 24, 2014
“But Is It Good for the Jews“?, The Jerusalem Post, November 26, 2014
The Hard Truth: Iran Will Remain a Threshold Nuclear State, the National Interest, November 26, 2014 November 26, 2014
Towards a Nuclear Agreement, Haaretz, November 11, 2014
A Generational Challenge, The American Interest, September 22, 2014
Can Israel Solve its Gaza Nightmare, The National Interest, August 5, 2014
Death From Above: Israel’s Hamas Nightmare Continues, The National Interest, July 12, 2014
The Middle East Heads Toward a Meltdown, The National Interest, June 26, 2014
Mismanaging a Vital Relationship, Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2014
Why the Palestinians Must Recognize Israel As a Jewish State, the National Interest, April 3, 2014
US-Egyptian Relations on the Brink? The National Interest, March 19, 2014
A Good Agreement for Israel, Haaretz, December 6, 2013
The Other Iranian Breakthrough, Al Monitor, December 3, 2013
Netanyahu’s Finest Hour – or Not, The National Interest, November 27, 2013
A Bad Deal on Iran?, The American Interest, November 15, 2013
Iran: Deal in the Making, or Persian Carpet Ride?, The National Interest, November 14, 2013
What Is Good for Obama Is Good for Us Too, Haaretz, October 5, 2013
Syria Deal: As Good As It Gets?, National Interest, September 14, 2013
Egypt: Balancing Values over Interests, National Interest, August 20, 2013
Closing Window for a Two State Solution, Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2013
Egypt Second Chance Act Democracy, LA Times, July 17, 2013
How to Make the Red Line Mean Something, The American Interest, May 22, 2013
Options for Action in Syria, LA Times, May 9, 2013
Renewing Dialogue with Israel, Jerusalem Post, March 20,2013
Proceed with Caution, The American Interest, March 13, 2013
JStreet is a Dead End, Jerusalem Post, February 24, 2013
Abbas and Netanyahu in Wonderland, Jerusalem Post, December 10, 2012
Renew the Mideast Peace Process? Not Now, LA Times, November 23, 2012
US Should Stay Out of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Efforts, for Now, Global Post, November 17, 2012
Iran: No ‘Loose Cannon’ in Jerusalem, Jerusalem Post, October 30, 2012
Russia, China on ‘Wrong Side of History’ in Arab World, Diplomat, October 29, 2012
Inside Bibi’s Bunker, Foreign Policy, October 4, 2012
Never Again, Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2012
Too Soon… Too Soon… Too Late!, Jerusalem Post, September 4, 2012
Security Guarantee Now, Haaretz, July 30, 2012
Managing the Endgame in Syria, Diplomat, July 29, 2012
The Least Bad Option on Iran, LA Times, May 23, 2012
Egypt with Dread, Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2012
A Tale of Three Capitals, Jerusalem Post, April 29, 2012
The Bitter Truth about Iran, Jerusalem Post, April 15, 2012
Beating a Dead Horse, BitterLemons, February 20, 2012
Israel‘s Profound Choice on Iran, LA Times, February 2, 2012
Keep the Peace Between Israel and Egypt, LA Times, September 14, 2011
Much Ado About Very Little, BitterLemons, June 9, 2011
Waiting for the Tsunami, Foreign Policy, May 23, 2011
Focus on Iran, Belfer Center for Science and Technology, April 11, 2011
The Sparks that Light the Fires, BitterLemons, Middle East Roundtable, Issue 24, December 26, 2010
A Three State Solution?, Huffington Post, November 30, 2010
Inscrutable Face of Egypt’s Future, Washington Times, July 23, 2010
Armageddon and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, InFocus, Summer 2010, issue 2, volume IV
Prime Minister Ibib, Jerusalem Post, June 15, 2000
Missiles, Missiles Everywhere, BitterLemons-International.org — Middle East Roundtable, May 6, 2010, issue 8, volume 11
Israel Must Prepare for Nuclear Terror Threat, Haaretz, April 28, 2010
Playing with Fire, BitterLemons, December 21, 2009
AIPAC, J Street, or JDate?, Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2009
Bibi’s First Hundred Days, Jerusalem Post, July 13, 2009
Bibi Answers Obama, Human Events, June 16, 2009
What Are They Smoking, BitterLemons, May 14, 2009
Engaging Iran Effectively, BitterLemons, December 4, 2008
A Parting Word of Thanks, Jerusalem Post, November 11, 2008
US-Iranian Tango, Jerusalem Post, September 2, 2008
Peace With Syria?, Human Events, July 8, 2008
A Disastrous Attack on Iran?, Jerusalem Post, June 26, 2008
Six Ways Not to Deal With Hamas, Foreign Policy, March 2008
Disavowing the Iran NIE: Smoke Screens or Smoking Guns?, Human Events, February 20, 2008
A Post-Annapolis Breakthrough Proposal, Jerusalem Post, February 18, 2008
Bush’s Middle East Trip, Washington Times, January 7, 2008
Iraq Do Over, Boston Herald, October 15, 2007
Attacking Syria: Focusing on Iran, Human Events, 18 September, 2007
Teheran’s War by Proxy, Human Events, July 10, 2007
Olmert: Doing Herod Proud, Human Events, June 20, 2007
Peace In Our Time? Human Events, June 13, 2007
A Palestinian Refugee Camp?, Human Events May 29, 2007
Olmert’s Failure, Human Events May 2, 2007
Iraq: Consequences of Withdrawal, Human Events, March 21, 2007
Saddam’s Last Hurrah?, BitterLemons.org-Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire, no. 2, January 15, 2007
Death of the Mideast Peace Process, The Boston Globe, December 1 2006
Hezballah in Lebanon: The War Was Not Supposed to End This Way, Jerusalem Viewpoints, Policy Brief 546, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 2006
Confronting Iran: A US Security Guarantee for Israel?, BitterLemons-International.org, Middle East Roundtable 4, no. 25 (6 July 2006), with Richard Rosecrance
The Pentagon’s Revenge or Strategic Transformation: The Bush Administration’s New Security Strategy, Strategic Assessment, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies 9, no. 1 (April 2006).
Disengaging from the West Bank – An Appropriate International Quid Pro Quo, Yediot Aharonot, 14 March 2006.