After years of investigation and months of delay, Israel's Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes ranging from his violation of public trust to bribery and fraud.

One evening, almost two decades ago, I was on CNN's "Crossfire" sitting opposite a Democratic congressman, who is no longer in office, having repeatedly disgraced himself in "sexting" scandals. We were there to debate Israel's botched assassination of a Hamas leader in Gaza.

For a growing number of Americans on both sides of our ever-deepening political divide, the 2020 presidential election has become a critical contest about the future of our country.

In 2012, I wrote an article about Lebanon that still rings true today.

With mass protests roiling Lebanon and Iraq, unsettling developments in Syria and Yemen, and the latest episode of the continuing soap opera that calls itself Israeli politics, little attention is being given to the plight of the Palestinians.

When Donald Trump was first elected, I warned Arab friends to be careful not to put their all of their eggs in a basket that I had every reason to believe would soon unravel.

I have never forgotten a political cartoon that appeared in the midst of the Watergate impeachment investigation.

I do not know which metaphor to use to describe the current crisis in our politics because so many come to mind. Are we at a tipping point? The edge of a cliff? Or sitting on a volcano waiting for it to explode?

Much to the consternation of Western liberals, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take the first crack at assembling a new government. Their concern is both misplaced and mistaken.