President Barack Obama’s “paternalistic” view towards Israel negatively impacted the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Ben Cohen, Senior Editor of The Tower, wrote Thursday in a review of former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren’s new book Ally. In his book, Oren wrote that “the Israel [Obama] cared about was also the...

Secretary of State John Kerry’s remark earlier this week that “We’re not fixated on Iran specifically accounting for what they did at one point in time or another” has caused concern among lawmakers that the White House has stepped back from its previous demand that Iran must come clean about its past...

The emerging nuclear deal with Iran will not “end Iran’s ability and motivation to have a nuclear-weapons option” wrote Aaron David Miller, a State Department official in both Democratic and Republican administrations, in an analysis published today in Time. After noting that the likely result of the deal is the emergence of “a...

AIPAC issued a statement calling Secretary of State John Kerry’s comments, apparently retreating from a demand that Iran come clean about all of its past nuclear work, “disturbing,” The Jerusalem Post reported today. AIPAC’s statement was one of concern that, after sealing a framework to a nuclear deal with Iran, the US was...

President Barack Obama is considering appointing a “czar” to oversee an emerging nuclear deal with Iran, Politico reported Wednesday. But some critics are questioning whether such an appointment will be able to ensure that a nuclear deal would be effective. An Obama administration official confirmed that one option under consideration is having...

The erosion of sanctions against Iran over the past year and a half, which led to increased business ties with Western companies, has lessened the economic pressure on Iran to make a deal limiting its nuclear infrastructure, argued an editorial (Google link) published today in The Wall Street Journal. The Journal noted that increased commercial interest in Iran...