Israel Archives - Foreign Policy In Focus

Romney on the Middle East: Obama, but Worse

by Adil E. Shamoo | Oct 10, 2012

Mitt Romney’s foreign policy speech at the Virginia Military Institute, while trotted out as a major rejection of the current administration’s approach to the Middle East, mostly just rehashed President Obama’s policies, albeit with more hawkish bravado. But Romney’s speech also included a host of faulty assumptions about Arabs and Muslims, indicating a potentially reckless misunderstanding of America’s relationship with the Muslim world.

Romney and Ryan: Stabbing at Shadows

by Michael Walker | Oct 5, 2012

In an election season consumed by the sluggish U.S. economy, foreign policy has been a more marginal issue than usual in the U.S. presidential race. But when they have ventured to attack President Barack Obama’s record on global affairs, GOP nominee Mitt Romney and running mate Paul Ryan have avoided substantive issues in favor of tired talking points and dog whistles, chalking up a series of gaffes and exposing their own inexperience in the process.

No to War with Iran

by Adil E. Shamoo | Sep 18, 2012

Israel and the United States have waged a campaign of cyberwarfare and covert operations against Iran for the past several years. If Iran had taken similar actions toward Israel or the United States, we would have considered it a declaration of open war.

U.S. Shares Responsibility for Rachel Corrie’s Death

by Stephen Zunes | Aug 30, 2012

On August 28, an Israeli court rejected a civil lawsuit against Israeli occupation forces for the 2003 murder of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year old American peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip, upholding a severely flawed internal Israeli military investigation.

Sectarian Jihad in Syria: Made in the USA?

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | Aug 20, 2012

What has been largely been reported as a civil war in Syria is, in fact, no such thing. In reality, Syria is a geopolitical battleground for rival foreign powers – with the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Gulf regimes, and Israel on one side and Russia, China, and Iran on the other.

Check Out the Green Party on Israel-Palestine Before Calling It a “Wasted” Vote

by Russ Wellen | Aug 8, 2012

Is barring Mitt Romney from the presidency a good enough reason to pass on voting for a dream ticket?

African Migrants and the Israeli Apartheid Debate

by Joel Schalit | Jul 30, 2012

The name of the neighborhood could not have been more symbolic. Located in southern Tel Aviv, the impoverished Hatikva quarter has always born the stigma of sharing a name with Israel’s national anthem, while playing home to some of the poorest, most marginalized Jews in the country—as well as a growing population of African asylum seekers, mostly from Eritrea and South Sudan.