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January 2, 2015 The Palestinian Authority’s Latest Charade ... All of this leaves the Palestinian people no better off, and arguably worse. The Obama administration will be under pressure to limit support to the Palestinian Authority and to exit f... January 2, 2015 Stephen Hayes: Iran Cheated on the Interim Nuclear Deal ... There are no specific caps, however, and no clear explanation of what would constitute a violation. We spoke to Mark Dubowitz, who is executive director of the Foundat... January 2, 2015 Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas Moves to Join International Criminal Court ... Grant Rumley, a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said going to the ICC is another step in the Palestinian effort to mitigate U.S. influence b... January 2, 2015 After U.N. Defeat, Palestinian Unilateralism Seen as ‘Losing its Luster’ ... “[The resolution’s failure] is no great surprise, since the United States has a veto [at the Security Council],” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for researc... January 2, 2015 In Latest Sanctions, U.S. Again Targets Iranians Holding Caribbean Passports For the fourth time this year, U.S. officials blacklisted an Iranian national using a Caribbean passport while purportedly helping Iran circumvent sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Depa... January 2, 2015 Egyptian Jihadists Thank U.S. State Department for ‘Terrorist’ Designation ... Ajnad Misr, or "Soldiers of Egypt," used the moment to also condemn American aggression and violence, gesturing to CIA torture revelations exposed last week in a U.S. Senate... January 2, 2015 In Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas VS Mohammad Dahlan Thousands marched in the streets of Gaza last Thursday in support of Mohammad Dahlan,... January 2, 2015 Iran’s Greatest Fear: “American Islam” The Islamic State rages next door and the U.S. Congress is threatening new sanction... December 31, 2014 Jihadists Continue to Advertise Training Camps in Iraq and Syria Several jihadist groups operating in Iraq and Syria continue to showcase facilities used to train their fighters. Since Dec. 1, seven new camps have been identified by The Long W... December 31, 2014 Analysis: Middle East’s Christians Face “Existential Struggle” The state of Christians in the Middle East is becoming an “existential struggle,” according to an ... December 30, 2014 Putin’s Lower Vodka Prices Won’t Offset Russian Economic Woes in 2015 Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered vodka prices last week for the first time since the Kremlin adopted pricing standards in 2010... December 30, 2014 A Last Minute Palestinian Resolution at the UN Security Council The Jordanian delegation at the UN Security Council called for a vote on a draft resolution on Palestinian statehood Tuesday evening, in a session called for hastily earlier in the day. The resol... December 29, 2014 Meshaal’s Visit to Turkey Catches Media off Guard ... There have been strident and consistent allegations in the media about the unfettered access Hamas members have to different resources in Turkey. Jonathan Schanzer, the vice pr... December 29, 2014 Obama Faces Narrowing Window to Score Foreign Policy Successes ... Against that backdrop, Obama less than two weeks ago made his surprise power play to change 50 years of history in an attempt to normalize relations with Cuba. “... December 29, 2014 The Religious Cleansing of Middle East Christians The fate of struggling Christians in Muslim-majority countries in the Islamic heartland has shifted from persecution to an existential struggle. Anti-Christian violence in 2014 saw... December 29, 2014 Stopping North Korea’s Next Act Of War “Freedom has prevailed,” tweeted comedian Seth Rogen on Tuesday, celebrating the latest twist in the saga of “The Interview” — the Hollywood movie that became ground... December 29, 2014 New Issue of Jihadist Magazine Produced by al-Qaeda in Yemen Suggests Attacks on U.S. ... Also this month, the media wing of AQAP released a video providing guidance to militants on avoiding detection by drones, ... December 29, 2014 Rouhani’s Façade Is Crumbling ... Emanuele Ottolenghi and Saeed Ghasseminejad, both fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, ... December 29, 2014 “Rapprochement” Aside, Egypt and Qatar Remain Rivals Egypt and Qatar want the world to know they’re friends... December 29, 2014 The Iranian Death Spiral (Continued) I don’t believe that economic misery brings down regimes. The pidgin Marxism that passes for serious analysis among all too many of our deep thinkers would have us believe that misery... December 26, 2014 Reading Washington’s New Cuba Policy in Tehran President Barack Obama’s overturning of Washington’s longstanding commercial and diplomatic isolation of Cuba earlier this month has grabbed the attention of another country chafing u... December 23, 2014 How Iran Uses Dual Citizenship in the Caribbean to Skirt Sanctions St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN) is a miniscule Caribbean nation whose biggest employer is the state sugar corporation and whose currency features wading sea turtles and the visage of Queen Elizabeth II... December 23, 2014 Why the World Should Follow Canada’s Lead on Iran Over a year ago, U.S. Department of State spokesperson Jen Psaki insisted that, “If Iranians don’t get to a ‘yes’ at the end of six months, we can put in place more sancti... December 23, 2014 The Futility of Obama’s Letter Writing Campaign to Iran’s Regime President Obama has penned at least four letters to Iran&rs... December 23, 2014 The War on Free Speech Last Friday, in his end-of-the-year press conference, President Obama scolded Sony Pictures. Cancelling the theatrical release of “The Interview” following cyber-attacks from North Ko... December 22, 2014 Iran’s Repressive Apparatus Gets a Raise To pay for it, Rouhani will have to tax a disgruntled middle class. Luckily he’ll have well-paid Guards to quash any potential unrest. Hasan Rouhani submitted his... December 19, 2014 The Uruguay Six On Sunday, December 7, a U.S. military medical aircraft landed in South America, to deliver six jihadists from the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay to Uruguay. For more than a dozen ye... December 18, 2014 EU Parliamentary Recognition of Palestine The European Union Parliament voted... December 18, 2014 The Palestinians Are Mounting An Audacious Bid To Transform The Terms Of The Peace Process The diplomatic struggle between Israel and the Palestinians reached a fever pitch on Wednesday as Palestinian ambassadors and their Jordanian allies pressed forward with a ... December 18, 2014 Historic Day for Washington, Havana…and Pyongyang’s Hackers On a day when hackers working for North Korea managed to shut down the release of an American movie, on American soil, by threatening terrorist attacks on American theaters, one might have suppos... December 18, 2014 An Iranian Proxy Still Holds All The Cards In Lebanon During his recent visit to Beirut, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Matthew Spence reportedly told Leb... December 17, 2014 America Needs Its Rough Men In spring 2009, I was invited to debate “torture” with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show.” He gave me an opportunity to make a case with which he vehemently disagreed. He did... December 17, 2014 Turkey’s War on Rule of Law: One Year On On the morning of December 17, 2013, Istanbul police launched a massive anti-corruption operation. They detained ... December 16, 2014 The Peshawar Attack: Sickening, but No Surprise The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, one of many al-Qaeda-linked jihadist groups operating in the South Asian country, launched one of its more horrific... December 16, 2014 Analysis: ‘One-Handed Economist’ Needed to End Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program With Iran and the world powers meeting on Monday in Geneva for a new round of negotiations to end the Islamic Republic’s illicit nuclear weapons program, the question arises: How vulnerable... December 15, 2014 Portugal’s Palestinian Recognition Adds Momentum to Diplomatic Push The Portuguese parliament on Friday called on the government to recognize an independent Palestinian state. The motion was filed on behalf of both the center-right and socialist parties, and it u... December 15, 2014 How Iran Is Skirting Sanctions in the Southern Caucasus Proxies and agents, merchants and middlemen, peddlers and enablers of the Iranian regime have been scouring the globe for years in search of ways to evade U.S. sanctions and help Iran acquire nuc... December 12, 2014 Iran’s Supreme Censor The Blind Man’s friend: Don’t suffer because of the past. You censored books for the sake of God. . . . What is... December 12, 2014 Iran’s Serial Violations and Obama’s Tepid Response Berlin – The sheer scale of Iran’s violations of the Joint Plan of Action to slow down its illicit nuclear-weapons program should ring alarm bells in the White House. Ve... December 12, 2014 North Korea and Iran: Partners in Cyber Warfare? North Korea has denied any involvement in the massive hacking attack last month on Sony Pictures Entertainment, and absent evidence c... December 12, 2014 Congress: The Last Line of Defense in the Iran Talks Now that the United States, its allies and Iran have agreed again to extend nuclear negotiations, the onus is ... December 11, 2014 Khaled Mashal’s Road to Damascus Runs Through Tehran An... December 11, 2014 Exploding the Israel-Assad Myth On Sunday, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) allegedly bombed targets at the Damascus International Airport and in a base in Dimas near the border with Lebanon. This latest strike, like all those befor... December 11, 2014 The Benghazi Report Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t... December 10, 2014 New FDD Report Reveals Depth of Qatar’s Terror Financing WASHINGTON - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance today released Part One of a three-part series revealing Qatar’s shocking record of ne... December 10, 2014 Giving Peace a Chance Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti... December 9, 2014 AQ Leader’s Arrest Highlights Turkey’s Terror Problem A joint U.S.-Turkish operation last month led to the capture of a senior... December 9, 2014 Qatar and Terror Finance Download reports here:... December 9, 2014 Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah: A Troika of Realists There was once a different Iran. At its helm was not a mullah but a monarch — secular, allied with the West, and committed to his country’s development and modernization. In a new boo... December 9, 2014 Congress Calls for Increased Sanctions on Hamas Allies ... A bipartisan delegation of foreign policy leaders in Congress are calling on the Obama administration to increase U.S. sanctions on Hamas and its allies, including the terror group&rsq...

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