The Obama Administration has taken a long-overdue strong line opposing Russia's intimidation of democratic Georgia. This potential break in the "reset" of U.S. relations with Russia comes on the heels of a flurry of JINSA engagement with the Georgian government including a mission to Tbilisi in May and subsequent meetings in Washington.

It is incumbent on those who want us to believe that the Ground Zero mosque will NOT be a source of religious and civil bigotry to prove that the sources are consistent with the immutable American requirement for tolerance, argues Shoshana Bryen, JINSA's Senior Director for Security Policy.

In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, JINSA expressed its discontent with the State Department's controversial decision to send Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to the Middle East to promote religious tolerance and discuss Muslim life in America.

Prof. Martin Sherman, the 2009-2010 Hebrew Union College/University of Southern California Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor of Security Studies and International Policy, writing in the latest JINSA Global Briefing, repudiates the claims that Israeli "occupation" and the Israeli settlements are to blame for Palestinian violence.

Recent test successes for Israel's Iron Dome defense system may have helped eliminate concerns about system’s ability to respond to short-range rocket threats, IDF leadership has indicated that ground operations would be still be necessary in the face of a large barrage of rockets. At the same time, an article by JINSA Research Associate Jacob Levkowicz reports, analysts continue to claim that the system's high cost may well prevent it from ever entering serial production.

On Friday in Washington, before an audience of Middle East policy analysts, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Shapiro said, “Bolstering Israel’s security against the rocket threat will not by itself facilitate a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” And, “A two-state solution will not in and of itself bring an end to these threats.”

In late June in Tel Aviv, senior Israeli Defense Forces officials briefed JINSA members on the security situation confronting Israel. They provided the group with the following video about the "Flotilla" incident that took place on the morning of May 31, 2010. This is a video you have not seen in the main stream media.

After eight years of unprecedented cooperation, the United States and India have begun a slow drift apart, an article by JINSA Research Associate Jacob Levkowicz reports. Relations have been strained over differences related to Washington's "Af-Pak" policy and the Obama Administration's lack of action on the 2008 civilian nuclear fuel deal.

JINSA's statement of Israel as an enduring partner and security asset for the United States has appeared in newspapers across the country. The statement was signed by 60 of our country's most highly decorated military officers. Click "Read the article" below to see how the statement appeared in various newspapers.

The case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project (HLP), was decided in a 6-3 decision on Monday. The court upheld the existing law, which has its roots in the 1996 Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and is further expressed in the USA Patriot Act.