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In recent days, gunmen targeted Australian Jews celebrating Hanukkah on a beach, and three American personnel were killed in an ambush attack in Syria.
“In the face of these vicious events, we should recall that our Judeo-Christian faith and tradition is the foundation and strength of America. It makes us the great nation we are today,” writes Hudson President and CEO John P. Walters.
Policies to appease antisemites, like Australia’s recognition of Palestinian statehood, have not diminished the risk of terrorist attacks—as the Bondi attack tragically demonstrates. Walter Russell Mead warns that Western governments’ failure to crack down on such violence risks engendering a significant political backlash.
“The global-intifada gang can’t break the state of Israel. At their worst, the Jew-hating terrorists can trigger a wave of repression across the West,” he writes in The Wall Street Journal.
“There is an urgent need for elected officials on the left and right to confront antisemitic falsehoods and declare without fear that America is right to stand with Israel for the sake of our own national security and theirs,” writes Nikki Haley in Fox News.
The 2025 US National Security Strategy sparked anger and panic among Washington’s foreign policy elite. But the document:
- Makes clear that Washington should increase military collaboration with its partners;
- Suggests that officials can boost and adapt Washington’s extended nuclear deterrent; and
- Provides reasons for strengthening allied conventional defenses and maintaining forward military deployments.
In response, US allies should get busy making themselves stronger—and therefore more valuable to the United States in the fight to stave off authoritarianism, writes Rebeccah Heinrichs.
Luke Coffey examines important inclusions—and omissions—in the new NSS. But “what ultimately matters is not what these documents say but what Trump himself chooses to do,” he notes.
Before you go . . .
The network of American bases across Europe is vital to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s mutual defense guarantee, Washington’s ability to project power, and US ties with its closest partners. Rather than withdrawing rotational forces from the Baltics, the Pentagon should increase their deterrent value by making them permanent, argues Daniel Kochis.
