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Trump’s Plan for Gaza: Reality or Drama?

October 13, 2025

Donald Trump proclaimed (https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-closest-weve-ever-come-full-text-of-trump-netanyahu-statements-on-deal-to-end-gaza-war/) that his Middle East peace plan marked “a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.”  Four days later, Hamas said it was prepared to release all remaining hostages to Israel.(https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/world/middleeast/hamas-trump-gaza-deal.html)  Trump responded(https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/03/hamas-gaza-peace-ceasefire-deal/) that Hamas had shown “they...


Once hostages are returned, the hard part of Trump’s peace plan begins

Optimists cite what they see as key differences between the failed January ceasefire and today. While accurate, neither necessarily foreshadows rapid progress.   With the last Israeli hostages living and dead to be released from Hamas captivity imminently, there is every reason for them and their families to celebrate...


Trump may be abandoning Taiwan to China’s tender mercies

September 25, 2025

Recent reports that the Trump administration is withholding roughly $400 million of military assistance to Taiwan are deeply disturbing. Although the White House maintains no final decisions have been made, the pause is eerily similar to Trump’s summer 2019 withholding of security assistance to Ukraine, for reasons entirely unrelated...


Russia’s Drone Attack Is an Opening for U.S.-India Repair

Russia’s recent breach of Polish airspace may be Donald Trump’s last chance to show resolute opposition to Moscow’s assaults against Ukraine. But the stakes aren’t limited to the European battlefront. America must also make clear to China and others that unprovoked aggression against U.S. friends and allies beyond Europe...


If we want peace in the Middle East, we must help free this country from Islamist terror

September 11, 2025

Lebanon today faces the existential question of whether it can emerge from decades of war and destruction, or whether it will again be consumed by civil conflict and terrorist domination. Its chance to return to “normalcy” is because of Israel’s strikes against Iran and its Middle Eastern terrorist proxies, following Hamas’s...


Why are Carr and Andrews legitimising China’s axis of authoritarianism?

In its typically authoritarian way, China (or, more accurately, its Communist Party) is commemorating the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end with a big military parade on September 3. The whole gang will be there to celebrate with Xi Jinping; Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un lead the...


The Gaza Reality

As Israel’s Gaza campaign against Hamas intensifies, the levels of Middle Eastern political rhetoric have also risen.  Prominent Israeli political leaders proclaim their support for a ”Greater Israel,” a slogan perhaps as old as the modern Jewish state itself.  Arab leaders, and many others outside the region, continue to...


Trump’s utterly incoherent Ukraine strategy

August 26, 2025

Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy today is no more coherent than it was last Friday when his administration executed search warrants against my home and office.  Collapsing in confusion, haste, and the absence of any discernible meeting of the minds among Ukraine, Russia, several European countries, and America, Trump’s negotiations...


A Bad Summit’s Silver Lining

August 21, 2025

Vladimir Putin led Russia out of international isolation on Friday, striding down a red carpet to greet an applauding Donald Trump. He accepted a ride with President Trump in “the Beast,” and one-on-one applied his KGB training to restart one of Moscow’s most effective influence operations ever. After the...


Trump is deluded if he thinks his meeting with Putin is cause for celebration

August 12, 2025

Friday’s Alaska summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is not shaping up well for Ukraine. Every indication is that Trump believes he and his (once again) good friend Putin will conjure some land swaps and bring peace. Of course, the land in question will be bits and pieces of Ukraine’s...


ABOUT JOHN BOLTON

Ambassador John Bolton, a diplomat and a lawyer, has spent many years in public service. He served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 2005-2006. He was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security from 2001 to 2005. In the Reagan Administration, he was an Assistant Attorney General.