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November 25, 2020

Mike Pompeo’s Historic Visit to Israel Recognizes Realities, and Jewish Rights

A not-unprecedented trip to the Golan and a stop at a legal settlement.

Last week, the American secretary of state arrived in Israel, visiting, among other places, the Golan Heights and the West Bank village of Psagot—where he toured a winery that has named a wine after him. Secretary Pompeo’s itinerary provoked outrage from the usual corners, with one commentator accusing him of “trolling the world.” But even the widely repeated claim that Pompeo was the first secretary of state to visit the Golan is false—Warren Christopher went there in official capacity in 1993. As for the criticisms, Dan Diker writes:

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November 25, 2020

  1. How Israel and Its Allies Could Have a Positive Influence on the Biden Administration’s Iran Policy

    Washington shouldn’t make concessions without asking for something in return.

  2. Mike Pompeo’s Historic Visit to Israel Recognizes Realities, and Jewish Rights

    A not-unprecedented trip to the Golan and a stop at a legal settlement.

  3. Anti-Semitism Has No Place at the Pentagon

    With Douglas Macgregor, Republicans have their own Ilhan Omar.

  4. How the Mossad Saved a Biblical Deer Species from Iran

    Snuck out just before the revolution.

  5. A New Science-Fiction Movie Explores What Happens When the Future Goes to War with the Past

    Tenet and the tenets of progressivism.