[aggregation-styles] Haaretz The election of Israel’s 22nd Knesset will take place Tuesday, five months after the last election, which was also held earlier than originally scheduled. The political dead end wasn’t over the drafting of yeshiva students into the army. The real reason the political system is faltering — why...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription As he moves on to his fourth national security adviser in less than three years, it has become clear that President Trump’s foreign policy is in shambles. It has produced turmoil but achieved almost nothing. Despite all the boasts, there are no new deals with...

[aggregation-styles] Haaretz Here’s one campaign promise by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that we should hope will be fulfilled: annexing the Jordan Valley to Israel. So far, no other campaign promise has been as encouraging as this one. Not one Zionist party has offered even a hint of an idea that...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription I would like to stop writing about John Hinckley Jr. I wrote for Time magazine in 2000 and in 2011 about the man who tried to assassinate my father, on both occasions regarding his bids for increased freedom. But the guy won’t go away. In...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription It's not often that Congress is lobbied by tens of thousands of marchers in a foreign city who wave American flags and sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” while demanding action on a specific piece of legislation. But that’s pretty much what happened last weekend in Hong...

[aggregation-styles] The Washington Post Subscription Whether national security adviser John Bolton was fired by President Trump or he quit is irrelevant. The change in foreign policy leadership will have a profound impact on how this administration’s Iran policy is shaped and implemented. While it’s fair to call both Bolton and...

[aggregation-styles] Independent President Trump just fired his third National Security Adviser John Bolton, in a move that can help him from present and future wars, and bring him closer to peace and diplomacy with America’s foes - namely Iran, North Korea, and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The sudden firing of...

[aggregation-styles] Forward Last month, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared that American aid to Israel is “something that can be discussed” in Washington. Her comments made news precisely because America’s policy of giving Israel billions in aid without expecting any policy changes in return hasn’t actually been discussed — or at least...

[aggregation-styles] The New York Times Subscription BEIJING — China’s leader, Xi Jinping, warned a gathering of senior Communist Party officials in January that the country faced a raft of urgent economic and political risks, and told them to be on guard especially for “indolence, incompetence and becoming divorced from the...

[aggregation-styles] Business Insider The markets have been a whipsaw, the US economy has slowed down, and one report suggests that US companies shed 10,488 jobs because of the trade war between the US and China — a trade war that has worsened over the past few weeks. So the two...