Robert Silverman on President Trump’s Postwar Gaza Remarks

There is an old sailors’ proverb which holds that a red sky at night is a sign of fair weather to follow, whereas a red sky at morn brings storm clouds and rough weather. If this proverb applies to geopolitics, the modern state of maritime security resembles a crimson sky with storm clouds on the […]

By fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States in two major military operations, Israel is benefiting from the closest relationship it has ever had with Washington. Yet in an ironic twist of political fate, at the very same time both political and more ominously, public support for the Jewish state is the lowest in decades.  The […]

By far the greatest issue of concern for most Central Asians as they react to the ongoing Iran crisis is stability. They recognize that they live in an unstable neighborhood, sandwiched as they are between Russia and China, with Turkey, Pakistan, and Afghanistan also looming large. Iran was an important provider of agricultural goods and […]