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A New York Post op-ed contributor since late 2008, Benny Avni has covered America’s foreign policy and international affairs for various American and world publications since moving to New York in 1986. Before the Post, he was the New York Sun’s United Nations correspondent and world affairs columnist, breaking exclusive stories during the lead-up and the aftermath of the Iraq war and leading the UN press corps in exposing Turtle Bay corruption. A native of Israel, he has covered the Middle East beat since the 1970s.
President Obama’s plan, announced last Thursday, to aid Syrian rebels was spectacularly ill-timed as well as wrong-headed. Ill-timed not just because we’re entering the battlefield very late in the game. But also... June 17, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsAt 6 a.m. last Thursday, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger called UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to report his government’s decision to pull out its troops from the Golan Heights, where they’re stationed... June 10, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsWashington foreign-policy circles have long treated Turkey as a role model — a place where political Islam and democracy live in harmony. Reality just shattered that ideal. A small protest that started late last week at... June 04, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsExpect major tears in the map of the Middle East this summer and fall, as states created by outsiders a century ago finally rip apart. “Nations” better understood as “tribes with flags” are unlikely to survive the two... May 30, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsA trial in Manhattan federal court may help push Mexico to free its decaying oil industry from the state-owned monopoly known as Pemex, for Petroleos Mexicanos. And that’s good news for both sides of the border, indeed... May 25, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsFor the first time ever, Israel has a real shot at a seat on the UN Security Council — but the Germans, of all people, may prevent it. Mind you, Germany — and, before reunification, West Germany — has been Israel’s most... May 16, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsThat sure didn’t take long. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Moscow counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, launched a new peace initiative for Syria on Tuesday; on Wednesday, Russia — ouch — undermined President Obama’s... May 13, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsFor two years, since the Syrian revolt erupted, President Obama has tried to lead from behind the United Nations, the Europeans, the Arab League. How about Israel? Yesterday, for the second time in three days, the... May 06, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsAt last week’s funeral for MIT Police Officer Sean Collier last week, Vice President Joe Biden defiantly said, “On every frontier, terrorism as a weapon is losing, it is not gaining adherents.” Huh? Whether small-scale... April 29, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsWith a bit of luck and good implementation, President Obama’s emerging Mideast strategy — build a coalition of pro-US forces in the region to oppose the radicals — could erase the errors that tarred his first four years... April 22, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsThe government stole the election right from the start, but for now a politician who wants to save Venezuela from its ruinous path won’t concede defeat, so things may get ugly quickly. Sadly, ugly is likely the only way... April 16, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsFor a sense of why the Middle East is sliding into a new dark night, look at Yemen — where everybody and his brother is meddling, while America mostly stays away. Yemen is a long way away from its glorious Queen of... April 12, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsFollowing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan these days is like watching a chameleon. You never know which color he’ll turn next. But through all the shifts,a strategic goal emerges: He wants to Putinize Turkey... March 28, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsPresident Obama’s fast-fading Syrian red line is raising eyebrows across the Mideast, where he completed a mostly successful visit yesterday. Was an American line crossed this week? Were chemical weapons used in Syria?... March 23, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsPresident Obama says he hasn’t brought any new American peace plan with him on his Middle East trip. Everybody assumes he means “yet” — but if he really is over there to listen, he might want to hear what a few... March 20, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsThe fighting season in Mali ends in three weeks and France, which has shouldered the brunt of the counter-terrorism war there, is looking for an exit strategy. So now what? Some 4,000 crack French troops have been... March 16, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsThe relationship between Venezuela under Nicolas “I Am Chavez” Maduro and Cuba is bound to tighten — and that’s bad news for America. Sworn-in Friday as Venezuela’s interim president, Maduro is often described as “hand... March 11, 2013
From Oped Columnists‘Guess what, guess what,” Dennis “The Worm” Rodman said time and again Sunday, as he tried to describe his North Korean excellent adventure to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. Guess what: Some Americans believe that, as... March 05, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsMahmoud Abbas wants President Obama’s attention — and to get it, he’s apparently willing to risk setting the West Bank ablaze. Obama is headed to the region March 20, but the White House says he’ll focus on bigger... February 26, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsUnder pressure from Washington, Europe is finally edging toward calling one of the world’s leading terrorist organizations a . . . well, terrorist organization. Yesterday Bulgaria’s foreign minister, Nikolay Mladenov,... February 19, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsMere hours after North Korea seemingly carried out an underground nuclear test Tuesday morning, our UN ambassador, Susan Rice, vowed to take “swift” and “significant action” against Pyongyang’s rogue regime at the... February 16, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsNearly two decades after a car bomb destroyed a Buenos Aires Jewish community center, killing 85, Argentina is forming a “truth commission” with Iran to investigate the case. Yeah, and OJ is still looking for the real... February 12, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsHow long will the West keep falling for dead-on-arrival Syrian “peace initiatives” that ignore the facts on the ground? The latest came last weekend, when Moaz al-Khatib, the titular head of Syria’s most widely... February 07, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsAfter sitting on the sidelines for two years of regional turmoil, the Israeli Air Force reportedly attacked military targets near the Syrian-Lebanese border in the wee hours yesterday. Breaking long hours of silence,... January 31, 2013
From Oped Columnists“When America is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. Extremism takes root, our interests suffer and our security at home is threatened.” Funny: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... January 29, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsBenjamin Netanyahu’s Likud-Beteinu party took a beating in yesterday’s elections — but he’s still likely to head the next Israeli government, and stick to his tough stance toward Iran and other foreign policies. But... January 23, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsIn the final days before Tuesday’s Israeli elections, Topic A over there is President Obama’s dim assessment of the Jewish state’s ability to handle its own affairs. Israeli polls consistently show that a right-wing... January 18, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsFrench President François Hollande just decided to overrule all the skeptics in Paris and abroad, end-run the United Nations and draw a line in the Sahara sands. Months ago, a band of cruel, ruthless and decisively... January 15, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsWhether Venezuela’s power crisis materializes by Thursday or later on, it’s coming. America will have a role to play, and better choose the right side this time. President Hugo Chavez won re-election in October; he’s... January 08, 2013
From Oped ColumnistsThe Taliban seem to believe all they need to do now is wait ’til America hightails it out of Afghanistan (coming soon), then take the country back and remake it into the jihadi haven that Allah always intended it to be.... January 04, 2013
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