As Washington shifts from values-based diplomacy to hard-nosed transactionalism, alliances fray, institutions weaken and Israel faces mounting strategic uncertainty in a world growing less restrained and more volatile

Opinion: Critics across Israel’s political spectrum say the response document released by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and dubbed “Forrest Gump” by Naftali Bennett, reads less like leadership and more like a self-inflicted political boomerang.

Opinion: President Sisi's reshuffle of Egypt’s cabinet is a move critics call a retreat from regional alignment and a consolidation of military power at home; it is a glaring admission of domestic failure and a strategic retreat into archaic habits of a bygone era

In this week's Torah portion, Mishpatim, a repeated wrongdoing carries multiplied consequences; the same principle applies to leadership: organizations rarely collapse from one mistake, but from the failure to stop a pattern in time