In remarks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Saturday, United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel described the global posture of the United States: Today our military has nearly 400,000 personnel stationed or forward-deployed in nearly 100 countries around the world, from Afghanistan to the Philippines to Guatemala. This continued forward...

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Arabic media outlets are expressing worry that negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran will not bring a good result—not for the United States and certainly not for the Arab countries. U.S. President Barack Obama is being depicted in the Arab press as a puppet and a lover of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei. Every...

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Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked to assess “the ethical conduct” of the IDF during Operation Protective during in a discussion at the Carnegie Council for Ethics earlier today. Dempsey called the question a “softball” and proceeded to explain: I actually do think that Israel...

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At a joint press conference Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said that Iran must prove its nuclear program is peaceful. Voice of America (VOA) reported that the two diplomats agreed “that Iran has a right to a peaceful nuclear program but ‘not a track...

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The Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday that photos appearing on Iraqi news sites showed that Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani was involved in a recent battle to drive the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from the Iraqi city of Jurf al-Sakher. The AP also...

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In an analysis published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, Michael Singh, managing director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, writes that though the United States in recent years has become more accepting of Tehran’s positions, “the changes in U.S.-Iran relations have been decidedly one-sided.” Singh writes that while...

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Iranian officials over the weekend and into Monday issued a series of statements emphasizing hostility toward the United States, days after a series of articles emerged suggesting that the Obama administration was in many ways laying the groundwork for a regional realignment that would grant the Iranians greater influence across...

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An unsigned editorial published Friday in The Washington Post urged President Barack Obama “to initiate a reset” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of last week’s diplomatic spat. The editorial begins by wondering “why the Israeli leader provokes such passionate animus from an administration that coolly shrugs off insults...

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Ahead of nuclear talks expected to take place next week in Oman, Iran is renewing militant threats against the United States and its allies. Admiral Ali Fadavi, commander of the naval force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, made a further clear and explicit threat to the US, promising to destroy...

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Eugene Kontorovich reported yesterday that the University of Haifa will be challenging the American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott of Israel by sending a professor to the ASA’s national meeting next month in Los Angeles. Kontorovich cites the University’s announcement that it will be sending a representative to the meeting. We...

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