US President-elect Donald Trump won't even take office for another month, but he has already killed the status quo.     During the election, Trump trounced the untouchable consensus on NATO's post-Cold War purpose. Questioning the purpose of an alliance formed to fight a war that ended 25 years ago is indisputably a reasonable thing to do. But until Trump came around, no one did.     Since November 7, Trump has continue to reject accepted wisdo…

  The push among the American Left to discredit the results of last month's presidential election entered a new phase last Friday with the White House's announcement that outgoing US President Barack Obama has ordered US intelligence agencies to review evidence of Russian hacking in last month's elections on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump.     The investigation itself is unlikely to lead to any conclusive results. The FBI, which is responsible for carrying…

    Israeli officials are thrilled with the national security team that US President-elect Donald Trump is assembling. And they are right to be. The question now is how Israel should respond to the opportunity they present us with.     The one issue that brings together all of the top officials Trump has named so far to his national security team is Iran.     General John Kelly, whom Trump appointed Wednesday to serve as his secretary of…

  In the US and around the world, people are anxiously awaiting US President-elect Donald Trump's announcement of his choice to serve as secretary of state. There is no doubt that Trump's choice for the position will tell us a great deal about the direction his foreign policy is likely to take. But the fact is that we already have sufficient information to understand what his greatest focus will be.     Trump's announcement last week that he has selected Marine Gen…

  Israel's coalition crisis over the settlement's regulation bill is not a normal power struggle between overweening politicians. It is not popularity contest between Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his Kulanu Party and Education Minister Naftali Bennett and his Bayit Yehudi Party.     It is also not about contenders to the helm challenging Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's political primacy.     The settlement regulations bill proposes to ex…