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August 8, 2022 It’s Time to Respond to Iran’s Bad-Faith Negotiations The Biden administration scored a diplomatic victory in June when Washington and its European allies spearheaded the international censure of Iran for failing to cooperate with an investigation into Tehran’s... August 7, 2022 With Israel under attack, Biden must fight UN anti-Semitism As the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad lobbed hundreds of rockets at Israel this weekend, a UN Human Rights Council official took to Twitter to denounce the Jewish state, labeling Israeli acts... August 7, 2022 Ceasefire in Effect Following More Than Two Days of Fighting in Gaza At 11:30 p.m. local time, an Egyptian mediated ceasefire went into effect between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad-led militant groups in the Gaza Strip. The ceasefire follows more than two days of... August 6, 2022 Operation “Breaking Dawn” in Gaza Enters its Second Day More than 24 hours after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) northern Gaza commander Taysir al-Jabari, Palestinian militant organizations have fired more than 449... August 6, 2022 Disrupting Palestinian Islamic Jihad a smart play by Israel Excerpt The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a military campaign Friday against Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a U.S.-designated terrorist group, in Gaza. The campaign, known as Operation Breaking... August 5, 2022 IDF Targeted Operation Eliminates Palestinian Islamic Jihad Commander In a targeted operation Friday afternoon, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) struck a building in the Gaza Strip killing Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) northern commander, Taysir al-Jabari. The IDF... August 5, 2022 It’s Not Just Ukraine With the world’s attention focused on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is looking for new opportunities to further destabilize Europe and distract it from the atrocities his army is committing.... August 5, 2022 We Cannot Risk Another Bout With Viktor Bout The Biden administration has reportedly offered to exchange notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for two Americans held hostage by Russia: basketball star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul... August 5, 2022 What the U.S. Should Say About the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh At around 6:30 A.M. on May 11, 2022, Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was preparing to report on another night of skirmishes between Palestinian militiamen and Israeli commandos in Jenin. A fresh flurry... August 4, 2022 Profit of Hate: How Domestic Extremists Are Embracing Cryptocurrency America’s domestic extremists are flocking to cryptocurrency and have raised millions of dollars from crypto donations over the last several years. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other extremist figures... August 4, 2022 Xi’s Great Leap Backward China, often dubbed “the world’s factory,” accounts for around 30 percent of global manufacturing output. However, there is one commodity China cannot produce fast enough: jobs for its millions... August 4, 2022 Money and Partnerships Matter in Cybersecurity The White House’s recent announcement of a Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology with Israel and the Jerusalem U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Joint Declaration that was issued as President... August 3, 2022 Workforce ‘ally-shoring’ brings benefits across borders Excerpt After a swing and a miss with the Summit of the Americas, President Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s recent meeting at the White House was a critical opportunity to... August 3, 2022 Biden sold America the false narrative that Al Qaeda was ‘gone’ from Afghanistan. Zawahiri’s death proves he was dangerously wrong. One year ago this month, President Biden told Americans that Al Qaeda was ‘gone’ from Afghanistan. On Monday, we learned that clearly was not the case. ‘We went to Afghanistan for the... August 3, 2022 Facing failure in Lebanon Lebanon was once a noble experiment. When the age of European imperialism ended, most Arab and Muslim lands became dictatorships where ethnic and religious minorities – Christians, Jews, Kurds, Druze,... August 2, 2022 As Pelosi visits Taiwan, don’t miss the action on China in Congress All eyes are understandably on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan this week as Beijing issues threats and rattles its saber. But those interested in supporting the free people of Taiwan... August 2, 2022 It’s time for a US-EU industrial strategy on China – even if it costs industry. On June 27, Airbus announced that it would establish an innovation center in Suzhou, China to cooperate with local players on advanced technologies ranging from hydrogen energy infrastructure to aerospace... August 1, 2022 U.S. kills Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri in drone strike Al Qaeda emir Ayman Zawahiri was confirmed killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul on Sunday in the first air strike conducted in Afghanistan since U.S. forces completely withdrew from country last year.... July 30, 2022 Violent Left-Wing Extremism Looms After Reversal of Roe v. Wade Under the banner of anti-fascism — Antifa, for short — a growing number of radicalized individuals are preparing for attacks on a variety of targets deemed as evil. July 30, 2022 ‘Securing India against China should matter to the world’ In this edition of “Indo-Pacific: Behind the Headlines”, we speak with Se Hoon Kim, the Director of the Captive Nations Coalition of the Committee on Present Danger: China. For the last eight years,... July 29, 2022 Let the Air Force let go of the E-3 ‘Sentry’ The Air Force wants to retire almost half of its E-3 “Sentry” airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft to free up finite resources needed to expedite fielding of much-needed next-generation... July 28, 2022 Tehran, the Day After What would happen inside Iran if America or Israel bombed its nuclear sites? That intriguing question is rarely broached, in part because many in Washington recoil from any speculation that might make... July 28, 2022 Russia Created a Refugee Crisis, and Now Putin Is Weaponizing It Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war in Ukraine has created a multifaceted humanitarian crisis that the Kremlin plans to weaponize against the West to further provoke instability and chaos. Refugees have poured... July 27, 2022 Iranian drones could make Russia’s military more lethal in Ukraine As Russia has prosecuted its invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has found itself wanting in several areas, notably including unmanned aerial vehicles. But according to the White House, Russian President... July 27, 2022 Half baked Joe Biden entered the Oval Office planning to make climate change his national security priority. The “forever” war in Afghanistan? He’d shut it down. Iran’s rulers? He’d bring them into a “longer... July 26, 2022 Ayatollah Khamenei’s ‘Resistance Economy’ Excerpt Nuclear talks between Iran and the great powers are once more at an impasse. The ostensible cause of the latest stalemate is America’s insistence that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps remain... July 26, 2022 How Congress Can Keep Biden From Caving to Iran’s Demands After an extended pause, the Biden administration and the Iranian government resumed indirect negotiations in Qatar late last month over a joint return to the 2015 nuclear agreement formally known as the... July 21, 2022 The Forgotten South Korean Prisoners Of War Who Sacrificed And Suffered For Seven Decades For Korean Freedom The sixty-ninth anniversary of the Korean War Armistice is July 27, 2022. The war is known as the “Forgotten War.” One of the most forgotten aspects of the war are the South Korean prisoners of... July 21, 2022 Biden blunders on refugees President Joe Biden earned deserved modest praise for his visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia last week, restoring confidence in core Middle East alliances. But the president made at least one major misstep:... July 21, 2022 Will new nuclear deal render Israel’s capabilities hollow? Returning to reality after the euphoria that existed during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia, the belligerent announcements by senior Iranian officials and Hezbollah chief... July 21, 2022 How Russia Won the UN Showdown Over Syria After months of avoiding a public confrontation, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, vented her anger at Russian efforts to restrict humanitarian aid for Syria. “This... July 21, 2022 Hamas-Fatah reconciliation attempts are DOA To celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his country’s independence from France, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune brought together Mahmoud Abbas, president of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority... July 20, 2022 Israel Needs to Speak Out and Hold Putin Accountable for His Crimes and Lies Russian President Vladimir Putin says that his “special military operation” aims to “de-Nazify” Ukraine, portraying his troops as freeing ethnic Russians from a fascistic regime in Kyiv. Yet despite... July 20, 2022 Finland and Sweden in NATO are strategic assets, not liabilities In the two weeks since ambassadors from all NATO member states signed the accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join the alliance, approximately half of the member countries have now ratified the... July 20, 2022 Building on Biden’s Israel Commitments Before It’s Too Late During President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel last week, he and Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a landmark declaration that contains several important U.S. commitments, including on preventing Iran from... July 20, 2022 From Jerusalem to Jeddah President Biden’s mission to the Middle East had been going so well. In Jerusalem, he pleased his hosts by telling them: “Israel must remain an independent, democratic, Jewish state — the ultimate... July 19, 2022 Ayman al Zawahiri is alive; Taliban and Al Qaeda “remain close,” UN reports Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of Al Qaeda who served as Osama bin Laden’d deputy on 9/11, “is confirmed to be alive” and is “communicating freely,” according to a report from the United Nations’... July 18, 2022 Iran Is Testing Us. So Far, We Are Failing In February, a jet carrying Iran’s minister of the interior, Ahmad Vahidi, landed at Pakistan’s Nur Khan air base and he was not arrested. He should have been. Vahidi, and four other senior... July 17, 2022 Palestinian Islamic Jihad Purportedly Establishes New Formation in the West Bank A statement published by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the West Bank officially announced the formation of Katibat Tubas after armed clashes took place in Tubas against Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF)... July 16, 2022 The rodeo that was the Pacific Islands Forum meeting It was quite a rodeo at the first in-person meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) since the start of the Covid lockdowns. Held last week in Fiji, the annual gathering was anything but boring. Just... July 16, 2022 Knocking anti-Israel bias to the mat Three years, two nationalities and one pandemic later, Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei finally faced his Israeli opponent — and now best friend — Sagi Muki, on the mat. Their unlikely friendship, the... July 15, 2022 Biden should not pass up chance to reengage Iraq After Iraqi politicians threw a wrench into their state, putting self before country, the trip of President Joe Biden to Saudi Arabia offers Iraqis a chance to make things right. And by the same token it... July 15, 2022 How The United Nations Overlooks Evidence Of Hamas Human Rights Violations Last month, a new United Nations Commission of Inquiry released its first report on human rights violations committed by Israelis and Palestinians. While the report condemns Israel for having “no... July 15, 2022 Hamas Wants to Rule the West Bank Earlier this week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh met for the first time since 2016 while both were in Algiers. However, reconciliation between the competing... July 15, 2022 When Iran Says ‘Death to Israel,’ It Means It Excerpt In the days leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, distinguished journalists, analysts, and activists argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin was unlikely to green-light an assault... July 15, 2022 Mideast trip shows Biden choosing pragmatism, rejecting ‘Woke’ policy After more than a year of attempting to placate the extremists in his own party, US President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week may signal a return to foreign policy pragmatism. A... July 14, 2022 Will ‘Salad Bar Extremism’ Replace ‘Old-School World’ Terrorism? The recent tragic shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois sparked a familiar partisan argument. Some on the political Left raced to depict the shooter as a violent Donald Trump... July 14, 2022 Can Biden Seize the Moment in the Middle East? Excerpt Yesterday, President Biden landed in Israel, inaugurating his visit to the Middle East, with another stop planned in Saudi Arabia. This trip holds the promise to be a pivotal moment of Biden’s... July 13, 2022 Biden needs to share intel, get out of the way and let Israel end Iran nuclear threat President Biden’s private meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will likely become one of the most consequential conversations of his presidency. After 18 months of failed diplomacy... July 13, 2022 Biden’s Visit Bodes Ill for Israel Way back during the Napoleonic era, the ace Austrian diplomat Klemens von Metternich once quipped that “when France sneezes, the whole of Europe catches a cold.” For allies and clients of the United...

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