Sarah Stern is the founder and president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, a Washington-based think tank and policy center.
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By Sarah Stern
While some consider the proposed measures for Gaza as a non-starter, there are few other ideas on the table—certainly not for Mahmoud Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority lacks credibility.
By Sarah Stern
There is no guarantee of Israel’s security except Israel.
By Sarah Stern
I hope that we, as a people, wake up and see the big picture, and understand that the evil intentions of our enemies are much more lethal to our existence than anything that can divide us.
By Sarah Stern
What we do and don’t know about the status of the nuclear deal and other regional issues.
By Sarah Stern
The agonizing reality is that no matter how polite one is—no matter how humanistic, how compassionate—there will be those who single us out for hatred simply because we are Jews.
By Sarah Stern
“Thought police” have cancelled speakers on campus. Students even cancel themselves over fear of arousing the angry mob. And, as is so often the case, the first victims of this particular form of tyranny are the Jews.
By Sarah Stern
Israelis have held their tongues for decades, hoping that when the big, Iranian existential threat is upon them that the Americans will come through.
By Sarah Stern
If the new administration sees as part of its objective making Israel feel alone and isolated in the community of nations, this is certainly unwise.
By Sarah Stern
We have to dispel the illusion in the foreign-policy establishment that a deal, any deal, is the penultimate objective of diplomacy.
By Sarah Stern
Far too many “human-rights” organizations are guilty of promulgating the oldest hatred known to humankind: anti-Semitism, a virus that has endured a great deal longer than COVID-19.
By Sarah Stern
Throughout American history, there has been a familiar cycle of isolationist tendencies. All of these have been like waving a rare, sizzling steak to the voracious, hungry dogs in the region.
By Sarah Stern
According to US law, anytime an American citizen is murdered by terrorists abroad, our government has jurisdiction and is directed to prosecute the perpetrator to the full extent of the law. There is no statute of limitations
By Sarah Stern
The Koby Mandell Act created the Office of Justice of Victims for Overseas Terrorism in the Department of Justice, to ensure that all American citizens, irrespective of where they were killed or maimed, would get the justice under American law they deserve. I naively thought that the 54 American citizens who had been killed by Palestinian terrorists and the 83 who had been wounded would finally get a crack at the American justice they so richly deserved.


