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December 20, 2011 Hurry Assad Along Last week the Obama administration’s point man on Syria, Frederic Hof, went to Capitol Hill to apprise the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East of recent developments. Nine... December 20, 2011 Fantasyland Peace Talks with the Taliban The Obama administration is still pursuing negotiations with the Taliban, even if it doubts a viable negotiating partner sits across the table. And, as part of this ad hoc diplomatic eff... December 20, 2011 Taliban Seek Freedom for Dangerous Guantanamo Detainees The Obama administration is considering repatriating some Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan as part of a diplomatic effort to engage the Taliban,... December 19, 2011 Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Action Against Assad Foreign Poli... December 19, 2011 Hamas Overtakes the Palestinian Authority in Jordan By Asaf Romirowsky As of November 29, 2011, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshal will visit Jordan officially for the first time since he was expelled in 1999. The meeting showcase... December 19, 2011 Memo to World Diplomats: Don’t Cry for Kim To release news of Kim Jong Il’s death, North Korea’s government stuck a woman newsreader in front of a TV camera,... December 19, 2011 Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’ In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay... December 19, 2011 Despite Criticism of Israel, Hitchens was Ardent Foe of Anti-Semitism Not long ago, I told an older colleague of my admiration for Christopher Hitchens, the Anglo-American author, journalist and public intellectual who finally succumbed to esophageal cancer Thursda... December 19, 2011 The Happy Warrior In February 2009, I attended a Hezbollah rally in Beirut with Christopher Hitchens. You could not have had better company with whom to witness the martial pieties of Lebanon’s “Party... December 19, 2011 Punching Back Against Obama’s Israel Policy Yesterday, the Emergency Committee for Israel — a group that has played a decisive role in the defeat of Democratic congressional candidates with checkered records of support for the Jewish... December 16, 2011 Mistaking Symptom for Cause Arabs and Muslims have many reasons, some of them valid, to detest Israel. Though it is a liberal democracy in which Arabs have more freedoms than anywhere else in the Middle East, Israel remains... December 16, 2011 Over There: The Occupiers, Seen from Europe Viewing the Occupy Wall Street movement from post-Communist Europe, I can’t stop thinking of October 1917. This date, when the Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional... December 16, 2011 Good Luck, Newt Gingrich. You’ll Need It President Newt Gingrich will not be inclined to favour the demands of an invented people, as he defined the Palestinians in recent remarks. President Mitt Romney will make Israel his first foreig... December 16, 2011 Dismantling Iran’s Clerical Regime Legislative devotion, including potent oil and bank sanctions, to stop Iran from creating a nuclear weapon device is largely exhibit A in US policy toward the jingoism of Tehran’s rulers.... December 15, 2011 What’s Islam Got to Do with It? Is there anything Islamic about Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps? On what basis does Ayman al-Zawahiri, now al-Qaeda’s leader, formerly the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, cla... December 15, 2011 The End of Fayyadism The "Arab Spring" may be pushing the Middle East toward transparency and more representative government, but the Palestinian Authority is bucking the trend. Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, perhaps... December 15, 2011 The New Canada-U.S. Love-In, Built on Iranian Nukes and Alberta Oil At a dinner event hosted at the Canadian embassy in Washington last week, former U.S. national security advisor Robert “Bud” McFarlane was asked to explain why America has no “e... December 15, 2011 Who’s REALLY Blowing Up Iran? It just has to be Israel, according to the pundit class. You know, that warmonger Netanyahu. Or maybe it’s us. Maybe it’s Obama, who after all killed bin Laden and Q... December 14, 2011 Jihadist Releases Bio of Yemeni al Qaeda Operative Killed in Somalia A jihadist released a martyrdom statement for a seasoned al Qaeda operative who waged jihad in Bosnia, Dagestan, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia; escaped from a prison in Yemen; and tra... December 14, 2011 Mother of All Grinches, North Korea The AFP reports that North Korea’s government has warned South Korea it will retaliate with “unexpected consequences,” should the South display Christmas lights near the DMZ tha... December 14, 2011 Lebanon Smolders Yesterday, a rocket fired from southern Lebanon missed its target in Israel. Instead it wounded a Lebanese woman, hinting at a possible pattern of things to come. While Hezbollah contends that it... December 14, 2011 Returning the Terrorists to Tehran In January, 2007, five American soldiers were brutally murdered in Karbala, Iraq, by a team of operatives who had been trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ foreign legion, the... December 14, 2011 Europe Waives Diplomatic Sanctions Against Iran Continental Europe's zig-zag course with sanctioned Iranian officials remains a counterproductive leftover vestige to the EU's nearly 30 year failed policy of dialogue with Tehran'... December 14, 2011 US Drone Strikes ‘On Hold’ in Pakistan: US Official As the US-Pakistan relationship continues to unravel, the US has placed its covert air campaign that targets al Qaeda and Taliban operatives in Pakistan's tribal agencies "on hold."... December 14, 2011 Shabaab Publishes IDs, Information on Slain Burundian Soldiers Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked terror group based in Somalia, announced on Radio Furqaan that it has the identification car... December 13, 2011 US to Turn Non-Military Screws on Iran The growing tendency toward targeting the Islamic Republic with powerful non-military sanctions moved beyond the idea stage on Thursday among Washington’s politicians and Iran experts.... December 13, 2011 Holy Land Foundation Hamas Support Convictions Affirmed Given the lengths to which the current administration goes to portray the Muslim Brotherhood — inside and outside the United States — as a &ld... December 12, 2011 Concern for Egypt Now that runoff results are in from the first round of Egypt’s parliamentary elections, it’s clear that the Islamists are running the board. As Samuel Tadros writes in the... December 12, 2011 The Real Rules of Detention Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded... December 12, 2011 The Missile Defense Answer to Iran Co-authored by Ilan Berman As the past three years have shown, President Barack Obama and his predecessor, George W. Bush, don't often see eye-to-eye on foreign policy. On... December 7, 2011 Hi There, Iranians! I’m Hillary, Let’s Chat For those who may have thought the Obama administration lacked real spine on responding to the 32-year old Iranian war against us, there is now a dramatic response (mild sarcasm alert). The... December 7, 2011 Lax Americana First came the tech bubble. Then came the housing bubble. Now the bubble of U.S. power is about to burst. A half-century-long Pax Americana is coming undone because our elected officials would ra... December 7, 2011 Protecting the Homeland Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s Nov. 30 column on the importance... December 6, 2011 Suicide Bomber Kills Scores in Attack at Kabul Mosque A suicide bomber killed more than 50 Shia worshippers outside a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul today. Another suicide bomber killed four more Shia in the western city of Mazar-i-Sharif.... December 5, 2011 The Thirty-Year War The storming of the British embassy in Tehran last week by the Islamic Republic’s Basij loyalists is evidence that fevered paranoia is now part of the Iranian regime’s decision-making... December 5, 2011 Iran Showed Al Qaeda How to Bomb Embassies In a little noticed ruling on Monday, November 28, a Washington, D.C. district court found that bo... December 5, 2011 Protecting Canada From Iranian Attempts to Acquire Dual-Use Technology Thank you very much, Senator Wallin, and to all of you. Thank you for allowing me to testify before this committee. It is an honour to be back in Ottawa. I am Canadian. I grew up in Toronto and I... December 2, 2011 A Tunisian Islamist Looks to the Future Earlier in the week Israel Hayom reported that the new Tunisian constitution may include &ldqu... December 2, 2011 How Assad Stayed In Power—And How He’ll Try to Keep It On November 12, the Arab League suspended Bashar al-Assad's Syria. After that, King Abdullah II of Jordan publicly called on the Syrian President to go -- the first such demand by an Arab le... December 1, 2011 Democracy Project Triumph: Islamists Surge Ahead in Egyptian Elections It would be hard to overstate what a catastrophe the Egyptian elections are shaping into. Reports abou... December 1, 2011 Storming of the British Embassy in Tehran Will Only Damage the Regime Two weeks after a huge explosion at a military base outside Tehran killed the Revolutionary Guards' top missile expert alongside 20 others, this week another explosion rocked Isfahan, the se... November 30, 2011 The Case for an Iranian-Oil-Free Zone If we buy oil from despotic states, are we somehow complicit in their crimes? Even after the Arab Spring has highlighted tyranny in the Middle East, Americans and Europeans still generally remove... November 30, 2011 Best of Enemies After years of ambiguity, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has finally lifted the veil on Iran's nuclear secrets and forced even the most sceptical t... November 30, 2011 Fallible In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made... November 30, 2011 Buried Treasure America is in economic distress. The crisis threatens our national security because a nation that is weak economically cannot be strong in other ways. If only we had an... November 30, 2011 The Big Business Behind Iran’s Proliferation In preparing to expand sanctions on Iran this week, the governments of the European Union face a critical choice. They can carry on with their current strategy of relying chiefly on pinpoint desi... November 29, 2011 Pink Eye In June 2007, I marched in Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. To do so was a risk. A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis had issued a hex on t... November 29, 2011 Who’s Blowing Up Iran? Another week, another explosion at or near an Iranian military installation (or is it a nuclear research... November 28, 2011 Egypt’s Military Must Step Aside With only days left before Egyptians are to vote in their first elections since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, thousands of protesters spanning every political ideology, from secular to Islamist, hav... November 28, 2011 Deutschland Darf Sanktionen Gegen Iran Nicht Bremsen Die Europäische Union stolpert durch eine neue Diskussion &uum...

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