President Trump's interim peace deal with Iran, which has partially opened the Strait of Hormuz and sent oil prices tumbling (but not yet gas prices), may be good for the short term - meaning the November elections - but long term it is not in the best interests of the United States, Europe or the rest of the civilized world.

The reason is, to paraphrase stock disclaimers - Iran's past performance on keeping its word is a guarantee of future performance. And what about those proxies Iran has been supporting? If...

No one in Israel expected President Donald Trump's betrayal, accompanied by his coarse-mouthed dressing-down of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The incompetence of Trump and his negotiators is now there for all to see. With sanctions lifted, Iran can now sell its oil, and the revenues from those sales are enough to pay for the country's entire annual budget. Iran will now receive, in addition, tens of billions of dollars from the assets soon to be unfrozen.

Israel, once a province of the Ottoman Empire, would be "ours once again," said Turkey's Interior Minister Mustafa Ciftci in a speech at an AK Party Corum Provincial Advisory Council Meeting on June 6.

"Just as in the past, those lands will be ours once again. God willing, they will come under our sovereignty and dominion once more. Because we have a global leader like Recep Tayyip Erdogan at our helm. A world leader," he said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US President Donald Trump's "very good friend," as the American president has described him, continues to host and provide refuge to Hamas mass murderers, who keep planning terrorism and attacks against us from Istanbul and Ankara. Yesterday, we learned that dozens more such attacks, which could have ended in major disasters and many casualties, were recently thwarted by Israel, fortunately.

On this matter, Erdogan is thumbing his...

From 1979 to 1989, Russia was the invader and occupier of Afghanistan until being militarily defeated by the Afghan mujahideen, whose younger offspring, the Taliban, now in power for a second stint in Kabul, are courting Moscow into a military and strategic partnership, driven partly by continual airstrikes by the Pakistani military - their former protector in the two-decade jihadi war against the United States and NATO troops.

On May 27, 2026, Kabul and Moscow signed a military-technical agreement...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel must build an independent armaments production network and reduce its dependence on foreign military supplies, while speaking last week to reserve combat officer cadets in Gush Etzion.

Netanyahu made the remarks last Thursday during a meeting with a reserve combat officers' course at Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion, south of Jerusalem. He discussed Israel's security challenges across multiple fronts, including Iran and its regional proxies.

US President Donald Trump delivered one of his most striking statements on Israel during a bilateral meeting with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in France, declaring that Israel's survival is deeply tied to American support.

"Without the US, there'd be no Israel," Trump said, before going a step further by adding, "Without me there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did."

The remarks came amid discussion on...

The United States would not exist if it weren't for Israel, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced during the International Conference on Israeli Heritage in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday.

Huckabee also stated that it was his job to represent the importance of Israel to the US.

"It is your heritage, without a doubt," he said, "but it is also the heritage of the United States. Without Israel, without the Jewish foundation, there would not be America. We owe our existence to what...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump last year that he was the "greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House."

Now, as Trump tries to finalize a deal to end the war with Iran, he's unloading on Netanyahu with rhetoric that no other American leader has dared to use publicly.

He claimed credit for Israel's existence - "without me, there would be no Israel" - and cursed his judgment in interviews. He even described him as "crazy."

Netenyahu's tenure as prime minister...

Trump said that he made the suggestion to Israel to let Syria take care of Hezbollah, because they'd do a "better job of doing it."

The president also praised Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa for pulling the country together quickly and doing everything he asked.

Earlier this month, Israel launched strikes on southern Lebanon and killed at least 11 people, even though Trump said he spoke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and that Hezbollah agreed to stop...

US Vice President JD Vance castigated Israeli officials on Thursday for not backing the US's nuclear deal with Iran, accusing far-right cabinet ministers of lacking appreciation for American support, as he made the case for the newly signed memorandum of understanding at a White House press briefing.

"You have seen people within Bibi's cabinet, who have come out and attacked the deal, and in some ways very personally attacked the president of the...

I can't count the number of times I've heard the question: Why does the United States give Israel $3.8 billion in military aid? Or what does the United States get in return for our $3.8 billion? If genuine, these are fair questions, and U.S. taxpayers deserve serious answers. Foreign assistance should always be judged through the lens of American interests.

Firstly, discussions about aid to Israel often begin with the assumption that the United States simply gives money away and receives little in return. That is not...