Truman National Security Project, an American national security leadership institute, has produced an online war game that allows users to stand in the President of the United States's shoes on the day s/he is asked to make a decision on attack on Iran. The choose-your-own adventure model gives players the opportunity to take a number of factors […]

A human rights activist and exiled Mauritanian blogger Nasser Waddady calls for an examination of the way the Arab world discusses Israel. Against the backdrop of Operation “Pillar of Defense”, Waddady condemns the “traitor” label so often stamped automatically on those who dare challenge the righteousness of Palestinian acts of terror or are willing to consider […]

The Knesset recently approved a law that will give retroactive tax benefits (in billions of shekels) to big Israeli corporations. Yair Koldar analyzes the decision making process on tax reform and shows how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's initiatives as Finance Minister have led to a scenario in which big corporations are not asked to pay full […]

Martin Eiermann, a writer for The European magazine, examines the charge that welfare polices were key in bringing about the Eurozone financial crisis. This accusation has functioned the cornerstone of Prime Minister Netanyahu's political campaign; he has often pointed to Greece and Spain to promote his right wing economic policies. Eiermann's piece shows how Europe's […]

iVote Israel is an organization that heps register Israelis with American citizenship to vote in U.S. elections. Although the organization claims to be nonpartisan and to have no connection with any candidate or party, a series of investigations make it increasingly clear that the organization has closed ties to the Republican Party. 

Stephen McInerney, in part of Freedom House's series of articles featuring experts on human rights issues, argues that due to dramatic changes in the Middle East, the the next American president should move to support democratic transitions and can broaden cooperation with civil society. He outlines the diplomatic policy options available for America in the region.

Pro-Israel organizations in the United States, primarily Jewish and Evangetlical Christian groups, have invested a great deal of effort in telling the American public how dangerous President Obama would be in a second-term for Israel. Politico writers Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman argue that making Israel the central foreign policy issue of the election to […]

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs put out an extensive survey that analyzes American's attitudes on foreign policy. The survey found that a great many Americans see a nuclear Iran as a critical threat (64%) to US security while their preference is to deal with it diplomatically. Republicans tend to side unconditionally with Israel when asked, […]