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Gazans Need Trump’s Solutions, Not France’s Statehood Theatrics
France hopes that by recognizing a Palestinian state the plight of the Gazan people will evaporate. It will in fact get worse, and that is because this act of diplomatic virtue signaling will be a reward to the culprit for their suffering: Hamas.
A Palestinian State Can’t Be Iran’s Trojan Horse
In 2006, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote that Iran’s leaders needed to decide whether they represent “a cause or a nation.” That remains the case today, and the future of Palestinian statehood depends on whether the Islamic Republic foregoes it as an objective of its foreign policy.
Israel Just Had Its Cold War Moment — and Came Out on Top
Israel’s Operation Rising Lion, alongside the U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities, has eliminated the threat of a nuclear Iran. Just weeks ago, the threat of nuclear weapons in Iran loomed large and seemed inevitable. The world is now unquestionably safer.
America’s Road to—and out of—Damascus A New Chapter for U.S.-Syria Relations
On May 14, 2025, President Donald J. Trump made history by meeting with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the new interim leader of Syria, and announcing the lifting of sanctions on Syria. The meeting with Sharaa, which took place in Saudi Arabia as part of the president’s first planned official overseas visit of his second term, came at the request of the Crown Prince and the President of Turkey.
America First Interview: Strength, Sovereignty & Global Strategy
Ambassador Carla Sands , joined by Fred Fleitz, Vice Chair of the Center for American Security, had a dialogue to lay out a comprehensive vision for restoring American strength abroad—by building strong allies, protecting national sovereignty, and rejecting globalist orthodoxy.