Tag: Middle East

University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, right, who together with Harvard professor Stephen Walt, unseen, published a book arguing that pro-Israel special interest groups have manipulated the U.S. political system to promote policies that favor Israel and run counter to American interests, defends his views with Israeli students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where the two lectured about their best selling book, Thursday, June 12, 2008. The two prominent American professors who caused an uproar with their best-selling book critical of the Israel lobby in Washington are in Israel and facing a raucous reception.(AP Photo/Ed Ou)

John Mearsheimer strikes out on Israel

Walter E. Block · November 8, 2026 9:00 am

President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a campaign rally at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas.

Rubio defends Trump’s Iran decision: ‘Elected to do the hard things’

Carter Schroppe · November 7, 2026 5:31 pm

U.S.-Israel relations

Israeli gridlock, new American Congress, and the future of the Middle East

Daniel Ross Goodman · November 7, 2026 5:54 am

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he greets Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago club.

Netanyahu says US aid cut makes way for ‘mutual investment’ amid unclear plans for military cooperation

Timothy Nerozzi · November 6, 2026 5:36 pm

Mark Levin speaks, with President Donald Trump behind him, during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Attorney General Edwin Meese, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington.

Iran war advocates own this debacle

Daniel DePetris · November 6, 2026 6:00 am

Yousef Jabareen

Israel’s Arab parties choose between ‘bad and even worse’ as they back Gadi Eisenkot over Netanyahu to form government

Timothy Nerozzi · November 5, 2026 2:18 pm

In this Feb. 26, 2012 file photo, Egyptian protesters hold posters showing Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, who is imprisoned in the U.S., and call for his release outside a court in Cairo, Egypt.

How Adam Hamawy went from terrorism trial witness to congressman-elect

Hudson Crozier · November 4, 2026 3:14 pm

The sun rises behind tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, Saturday, April 18, 2026.

Iran is betting on the midterm elections. It could lose big

Ron MacCammon · November 3, 2026 4:17 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump.

Trump to end all military funding to Israel by end of the year: ‘They don’t need it’

Timothy Nerozzi · November 3, 2026 10:02 am

President Donald Trump greets Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a campaign rally at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas.

Trump on Iran negotiations: ‘We’re not in that much of a hurry’

Carter Schroppe · October 31, 2026 11:10 pm

Resilience, Soviet-style: Red Army troops storm an apartment block among the ruins of war-torn Stalingrad, 1941.

War, patriotism, and resilience: The price to be paid in Iran

Mackubin Owens · October 31, 2026 6:05 am

Rogers, el Sayed, and Kennedy.

RFK Jr. defends comments on Islam with lengthy essay aimed at media critics

Gabrielle M. Etzel · October 30, 2026 8:12 pm