האם ישראל מתכננת לתקוף באיראן לפני ה-20 בינואר? ה”סקופ” של ברק רביד על הכנות בצה”ל לאפשרות של תקיפה אמריקאית עשוי להיות סיפור כיסוי להכנות לתקיפה ישראלית WEBINAR: Biden: Toward a Progressive U.S. Middle East Policy, Friday November 27th at 11am Pacific. Register here. Panelists: Omar Rahman, visiting fellow, Brookings Doha; Muhammad Sahimi, Professor, University of […]
Trump Wanted to Attack Iran, They Talked Him Out of It…for Now
This is rich. This is terrifying. For over a decade Israel and the U.S. have tussled about whether to attack Iran. Usually the Israelis wanted to do it and Presidents like Bush and Obama said No. But it wasn’t easy. They had to send the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, national security advisor and defense […]
A Murder in Tehran
The NY Times just published a story detailing the assassination three months earlier of Al Qaeda’s number two leader, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, who had been living secretly in Iran since 2003. The Times report, on which Israeli intelligence reporter Ronen Bergman shared a byline, said al-Masri, who was responsible for the 1998 bombing of U.S. […]
What to Expect from a President Biden
NOTE: Middle East Eye just published my election piece, US elections 2020: With Biden set for a narrow win, Democrats must do some soul-searching, analyzing the domestic political fall-out of the Biden victory. Please read it and promote it via social media. As the dust settles on the 2020 election, Americans are turning (ever so […]
