Tag: nuclear weapons

Rep. Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, cited the lateness of American actions against the Nazis in critiquing President Obama’s foreign policy. In a speech...

Ask yourself, what would happen if Saudi Arabia were to change its buying habits?

The official text from President Obama on the P5+1 deal with Iran.

Israel has been has been threatening, almost explicitly, that any agreement signed with Iran will not restrict Israel from acting militarily to prevent Iran from achieving nuclear breakout.

The IAF practiced complex mid-air refuelings this week in an apparent message to Iran that they are within reach.

Iran is a rational actor in terms of its own objectives.

Not much progress—which is really moving backwards—will be made on the Israeli-Palestinian front.

Bibi dared to mention the NY Times' own shoddy record of believing dictators on the threshold of nuclear weapons capability.

Feiglin claims the legitimacy for an Israeli preemptive strike has dissipated.

This was the first direct conversation between an American and an Iranian leader in 34 years.

The UN's nuclear assembly voted down an Arab League non-binding resolution that singled out Israel for its alleged nuclear arsenal.

I think it's fair to say that Putin spit in Obama's face yesterday, and then rubbed it in for good measure.

I was wondering how Obama was going to sidestep his promise to attack Syria if they used chemical weapons.

His family loves art and refined European tastes. This highly cultured man is responsible for producing poison gas. It reads like something out of Nazi Germany but it is not. Meet Syria's Amr Najib Armanazi.

Nuclear ambiguity? Israel has released rare photos of the construction of the Dimona nuclear plant. The photos do not endanger security, but their publication indicates Israel may become less secretive.

Rohani said that, "The Zionist regime has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world for years and the wound should be removed."

The man Israel has accused of being an Iranian agent has been appointed as Prime Minister of Egypt.

The Palestinian Authority doesn’t need rocks, firebombs, guns and suicide bombers. Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub has a better way to kill Jews: “If we had a nuke, we’d use it this very morning.”

Nukes aren’t something you wave around like a drunk brandishing a knife.

Obama’s policy is Saudi policy. That is where the irrational push to create a Palestinian state comes from, and that is where the handcuffs on the IDF are forged.

A nuclear weapons reduction plan advocated by Hagel evinces a less than serious understanding of both the nature of US deterrence needs, and the geopolitical balance between the United States and Russia.

The most important foreign policy effort President Barack Obama will be making over the next year is negotiating with Iran. The terms of the U.S. offer are clear: if Iran agrees not to build nuclear weapons, it will be allowed to enrich a certain amount of uranium, supposedly for purposes of generating nuclear energy (which Iran doesn’t need) and other benefits, supposedly under strict safeguards.

AP reports that Western diplomats announced that the long planned meeting of the NPT (Non Proliferation Treaty) countries has been cancelled because Israel, not...

Over and over again I’ve written about what President Barack Obama should do. Now the voters have given him a whole new chance. He could take it and change his policy. I don't believe he will do that but let me lay out both what he's been wrong and what he should do, just in case Obama is seeking a different approach.

Nuclear weapons and nuclear war. This is not a new subject for my column in The Jewish Press. What is new is the urgent need to confront, head on, an expanding international movement to eviscerate Israel's nuclear posture – and at precisely the precarious moment when this critical posture should actually be made more visible, and hence, more compelling.

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made headlines last month with this question: What are the U.S. red lines when it comes to Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program?

"I ask, given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian aggression with nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said to the assembly.

"Citizens of Israel, Tonight, I am leaving for New York to represent the State of Israel at the United Nations. On the issue of Iran, we...

Iran has moved further along in its ability to build nuclear weapons, according to some diplomats.

The U.S. reiterated its rejection of Israel's call for "clear red lines." Today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, saying those "who refuse to put red lines in front of Iran, don't have a moral right to put a red light in front of Israel." Here is the Prime Minister in his own words - responding to a reporter's question about the State Department's position: