Guest Columns

The Mutually-Beneficial US-Israel Apache and Blackhawk Saga

*Israel’s unique challenges and brainpower have made it a critical platform for research & development centers of some 250 US commercial high tech giants (e.g., Google, John Deere, Nvidia, Microsoft, Facebook, Dell, Texas Instruments, Apple, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, Intuit, General Electric), which have leveraged Israel’s capabilities, in order to bolster their…

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Eulogizing Khamenei

Who could forget the Washington Post‘s foolish unforced error in 2019 when its obituary for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph of ISIS, called him an “austere religious scholar“? Apparently, the editors at the Washington Post forgot, because they printed an obituary for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that makes its…

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Israel: America’s Unique Economic and Defense-Multiplier

*The US makes an annual investment of $3.8bn in – not foreign aid to – Israel, which yields an outsized Return-on-Investment. *US Export and employment Multiplier. In 2018, Israel was the first to use the F-35 operationally, while US experts doomed the F-35 to failure. However, the Israeli battle-tested laboratory, jointly with Lockheed-Martin, overcame critical…

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