Five years into the Syrian civil war, Qutaiba Idlbi, a native of Damascus, recalled a question he first heard at the onset of the revolution. “Why should we go out to the streets if we know that Assad is going to shoot unarmed people?” Idlbi remembered that question, raised by...

The candor President Barack Obama displayed in the lengthy Atlantic article about his foreign policy “is destabilizing,” influential Washington Post columnist David Ignatius wrote in a column on Tuesday. Ignatius’s criticism of Obama is particularly notable, as he has generally been supportive of Obama’s foreign policy, including the nuclear deal...

The four remaining Republican candidates for President laid out their support for Israel during a debate Thursday night. The discussion moved towards Israel when Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) criticized Donald Trump for saying that he would be “neutral” between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and for not promising to scrap...

A delegation of IDF veterans has volunteered to spend two weeks teaching disadvantaged children and repairing orphanages in northern Ethiopia to honor the memory of a fallen comrade. The 25 Israelis will set out in April to volunteer in the city of Gondar under the aegis of the humanitarian group...

JNS.org – You don’t hear that much these days about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former Iranian president whose penchant for denying the Holocaust at every opportunity became legendary. If conventional wisdom is to be taken at face value, the reason for that is simple: The era of Ahmadinejad came to an...

There is an “intense struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party” being waged between those who believe that the United States is “the leader of the free world” and those who reject that premise and see rather “hubris, not leadership in America’s history,” Josh Block, president and CEO of The Israel...