Ehud Eilam, Author at The Western Journal

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Dr. Ehud Eilam has been studying Israel’s national security for more than 25 years. He has served in the Israeli military and worked for the Israeli Ministry of Defense as a researcher. Eilam has published six books in the U.S and U.K. His latest book is "Containment in the Middle East." (University of Nebraska press, 2019) He lives in Massachusetts. Contact him at Ehudei2014@gmail.com.

An Iraqi demonstrator carries a national flag while posing next to burning tires as angry protesters block roads in the central shrine city of Najaf on Jan. 5, 2020.

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Op-Ed

Iran Has a Long History of Hating the US

Iran has strategic, ideological and psychological reasons to confront the U.S. although it knows well it can’t defeat (let alone annihilate) the foe.

By Ehud Eilam January 9, 2020

A handout picture received from the U.S. embassy in Iraq on Dec. 31, 2019, shows a U.S. Army Apache helicopter dropping flares over Baghdad's high-security Green Zone after Iraqi militants of pro-Iran factions breached the outer wall of the embassy.

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Op-Ed

Following Embassy Attack, US Should Respond to Iran's Provocations

The anti-Iranian coalition has to stand firm to deter and block Iran by developing creative ideas on how to contain and eventually bring down the regime.

By Ehud Eilam January 1, 2020