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Iran Nuclear Deal: Does Obama want Israel to commit suicide?

In 1982, during one of many visits to Israel, I had the opportunity to speak with Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who told me, “Israel needs friends.” He added that in the end, his nation could not trust any nation with…

Netanyahu Changes Stance On Opposition To Two State Solution

“I haven’t changed my policy,” newly reelected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first interview since the election. “What has changed is the reality. I don’t want a one-state solution; I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but…

Virtually impossible for top White House, State Department officials to miss Clinton’s private email address: security expert

March 10, 2015: Hillary Rodham Clinton listens during a news conference at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) A senior information security professional with intimate knowledge of federal systems has raised new security concerns about former Secretary of State…

Reason for Hope: The 10,000 Women Initiative

For as long as I can remember, we’ve been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations – nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects it…

Oregon woman long detained in East Timor free to return home

Stacey Addison with her lawyer, Paul Ramedios, and an unidentified adviser from the US Embassy. Six months to the day after she was detained without charge in East Timor, Stacey Addison is finally headed home to Oregon. A judge released…

At CPAC, Jeb Bush does his best to reestablish conservative credentials

Feb. 27, 2015: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. (AP) Potential 2016 White House candidate Gov. Jeb Bush made the most of his opportunities this week to assure attendees at…

Jeb Bush stands firm on controversial immigration, education policies at CPAC

Jeb Bush stood firm at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, defending his position on immigration reform and Common Core before a sometimes skeptical crowd of voters who don’t always see eye to eye with his policies. Energetic and composed,…

Walker draws standing ovation in CPAC address

OXON HILL, Md. – Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker rolled up his sleeves Thursday and picked up where he left off last month in Iowa — trying to win over his party’s conservative base on the way to a potential…

Hundreds support Iranian mystic facing death sentence

Taheri was nearly done with his prison sentence when the court changed the charge to one that carries the death penalty. A man who taught mysticism in Iran faces the death penalty after already serving almost four years in prison,…