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May 12, 2015 Why Does Germany’s Young Generation Hold Negative Views of Israel? The peerless Middle East historian Bernard Lewis wrote nearly 30 years ago in his groundbreaking book Semites and Anti-Semites that German guilt after the Holocaust contributed to the positive re... May 12, 2015 Admiral Shamkhani, Rohani’s Iron Fist in an Iron Glove President Hassan Rohani’s appointment of Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani as secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) in September 2013 was initially seen as a... May 12, 2015 How Hezbollah Sees the Iran Nuclear Deal: We Win, You Lose Last week, the Israeli Air Force struck a cache of long-range missiles belonging to Hezbollah and put the Shia militia on notice. As air force chief Major-General Amir Eshel explained, "Our abili... May 11, 2015 Israeli Voters Reacted to the Threats They Face There is little doubt that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new coalition government of right wing parties, is not particularly enthusiastic about negotiating with the current Palestinia... May 7, 2015 Jihad 2.0: Social Media in the Next Evolution of Terrorist Recruitment Download full testimony here Cha... May 7, 2015 Will the Fallout from the Iran Deal Make the Middle East Less Stable? Let’s stipulate that any effort to reach a nuclear accord with a rabidly anti-American theocracy like the Islamic Republic of Iran is by its nature a risky enterprise. That’s especial... May 7, 2015 Legal Scholar Dershowitz Wants Honorary Israeli Citizenship to Counter BDS Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said on Friday that he would like to become an honorary citizen of Israel to fight the boycott movement. “I think the good answer to the BDS m... May 6, 2015 Reported Israeli Raid on Sudan Could Reveal Khartoum’s Duplicity Sudan may have joined the Saudi-led fight against Iran-backed p... May 6, 2015 Dr. Zarif or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian bomb Tehran’s largest cemetery,... May 5, 2015 Iran Accountability Week 2015 Chairman Reid and honourable members of the committee, thank you for inviting me again to testify. It's a great pleasure to be testifying with two of my colleagues from Washington, Mark and... May 5, 2015 ‘SWIFT’ Warfare Download full report here Introductio... May 5, 2015 Preaching Hate and Sectarianism in the Gulf As Saudi Arabia expands its involvement in wars across the Middle East, the kingdom has given a platform to an extremist cleric who seems to believe this struggle is not... May 4, 2015 Terrorist Financing and the Implications for Canada Download full testimony here Mr. Chairman, member... May 4, 2015 Iran Under President Rouhani: Nuclear Negotiations, Regime Insecurity and Increased Suppression Download full text here Introduction... May 4, 2015 Why Are Germans so Quick to Remove Israeli Flags? The police removal of an Israeli flag unfurled at a soccer match in Berlin last week to preempt Palestinian anger is part of a longstanding practice of shunning the Jewish state’s flag in G... May 4, 2015 Containment: The Gulf States’ Game Plan for Yemen The Saudi-led international coalition operating in Yemen announced ... May 1, 2015 Iran’s Greatest Vulnerability Iran is on the march all over the world, from Syria and Iraq to Venezuela and Cuba (where they have a Hezbollah base). Except when they unceremoniously retreat, as in recent days when their floti... May 1, 2015 German Court Stops Anti-Israel ‘Cologne Wailing Wall’ Exhibit A Cologne city court shut down an anti-Israel exhibit on Cathedral Square. The prosecutor argued on Friday that the exhibit, which shows 15 pictures of dead and injured Gazan children wh... May 1, 2015 Controversial ‘Tin Drum’ Author Grass Dies at 87 German novelist Günter Grass, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum, an epic treatment of the Nazi era, died on Monday at the age of 87, his publishers said. A broad-should... April 29, 2015 All in the Family: Saudi Clique Takes Over the State Saudi Arabia has the rare distinction of being a nation named after a single family. On Wednesday, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud doubled down on this authoritarian tradition with a bold... April 29, 2015 The Lessons of Armenia Should Not Be Lost Displayed outside the Turkish embassy in Washington last week was a large banner reading: “Armenian Genocide is an Imperialist Lie.” That claim might be amusing were the subject not s... April 29, 2015 The Iranian ‘Deep State’ is Trying to Buy an Oil Refinery in Switzerland Iranians hit the streets earlier this month to celebrate a nucle... April 28, 2015 “Terrorism in Africa: The Imminent Threat to the United States” Download full testimony here ... April 27, 2015 Is Hamas Gaining Traction in Europe? The 13th Palestinians in Europe Conference on Saturday once again catapulted Hamas’s activities into the spotlight. The organizers of the event – the London-based Palestinian... April 24, 2015 Iran and Pakistan, A Cold Peace That Could Get Hot Pakistan’s parliament has unanimously passed a resolution affirming the country’s neutrality in the Yemen conflict, rebuffing a Saudi Arabian request for fighter jets, grou... April 24, 2015 Berlin Pro-Hamas Palestinian Conference Sparks Outrage A pro-Palestinian conference slated to take place in Berlin on Saturday has come under attack because of its ties to Hamas and its erasure of Israel on a Middle East map. “Th... April 23, 2015 Hamas Triumphs in Election at Flagship West Bank University The Hamas-dominated Islamist Bloc emerged victorious in student elections at Birzeit University near Ramallah on Wednesday, defeating... April 22, 2015 FDD’s Schanzer and Zarate Testify about Terror Finance Threats WASHINGTON, DC – As Congress and the administration explore ways to stem the threat of terrorists destabilizing important regions and attacking U.S. interests and those of its allies, Dr. J... April 22, 2015 Times That Try Congressmen’s Souls Members of Congress are facing the test of their political lives. America’s national security is about to be imperile... April 22, 2015 A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing Download full testimony here Cha... April 22, 2015 How Financial Power Can Be Used To Save Iconic Species From Extinction On Earth Day 2015, prospects for many of the planet’s most iconic species look bleak. Unless poaching rates decline across Africa, the rhino and elephant ... April 22, 2015 When Israel Helped Yemen’s Shiites Yemen’s Houthi rebels accuse Israel of standing behind the Saudi-led military campaign launched against t... April 22, 2015 Understanding ‘Operation Renewal of Hope’ in Yemen The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen declared the end of Operation Decisive Storm yesterday, to be replaced with Operation Renewal of Hope effective midnight. Although coalition spokesperson... April 22, 2015 The Islamic World’s Thirty Years War Even as Iran’s Islamic revolutionaries were toppling the Shah in 1979, at the core of their thinking was that their Shia revolution should not be limited to their homeland but ex... April 21, 2015 A Survey of Global Terrorism and Terrorist Financing Download full testimony here... April 20, 2015 Rand Paul Slams Saudi Arabia Senator Rand Paul, the junior senator from Kentucky, rode into the Senate chamber in 2010 on a Tea Party movement that took U.S. pol... April 17, 2015 If Iran Cheats, Resurrecting Sanctions Wouldn’t Be Easy President Obama's ability to sell any nuclear deal with Iran depends heavily on the idea that sanctions could quickly be "snapped back" if the agreement is violated, restoring the leverage n... April 17, 2015 What’s Next For Islamic State? In 2014, the Islamic State (IS) extremist group emerged as one of the most powerful jihadi groups, rivaling even Al-Qaeda. The extremist Sunni group now controls vast swathes of territor... April 17, 2015 James Baker Is Wrong: The Iran Deal Can’t Be Fixed Each day brings more evidence that the Iran framework is a farce. Reuters reports: “The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had a “constructive exchange” with Iran this week but there... April 17, 2015 Iran-U.S. Differences Over Nuclear Deal Widen Two weeks after world powers and Iran announced a framework agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program, widening gaps between the two sides are emerging. As negotiators prepare to sta... April 17, 2015 He Served Saddam. He Served ISIS. Now Al Douri May Be Dead. He’s been on the loose since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and despite a $10 million bounty for his capture always managed to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, but now Iraqi officia... April 17, 2015 Iran Obama Sidesteps Iran Sanctions Timeline to Focus on Snapback President Barack Obama left open the possibility of negotiators lifting most sanctions against Iran at the start of a final nuclear deal -- rather than in phases -- so long as sanctions could be... April 16, 2015 Saudi Steps on Terror Finance Fall Short The U.S. Treasury Department announced last week that it was taking joint action with the government of Saudi... April 16, 2015 The Iran Deal: Forget About Stability, Our Strategy Should Be Survival As you’d expect, ... April 16, 2015 Ready for the Truth About Iran? Khamenei Wants to Destroy Us Why are so many "experts" amazed that there is no deal with Iran? It's certainly not because Western negotiators weren't willing to meet the mullahs halfway; they were eager to compromi... April 16, 2015 ISIS’ Attack on Ramadi Just Upended U.S. War Plans ISIS is reportedly marching on key Iraqi city of Ramadi—upending the momentum that the U.S.-led military coalition seemed to have just days ago, and threatening to shatter an already delica... April 15, 2015 The Case For Heresy By now, you should be familiar with the name Ayaan Hirsi Ali. You should know at least this much about her: She is brilliant, beautiful, black and she has been banned near Boston. You mi... April 15, 2015 Al Qaeda Is Beating the Islamic State Co-authored by Bridget Moreng The Islamic State’s lightning offensive through Iraq and Syria last year has dominated the headlines, but the jihadist group that has won the... April 15, 2015 Defrosted: Will German Firms Plunge Head First Into Iran? Co-authored by Maximilian Kiewel With a framework in place for addressing the Iran nuclear issue, Germany, a member of the P5+1 powers negotiating with Tehran, sta... April 14, 2015 Putin Boosts Congress’s Case for Role in Iran Deal Demands from Congress that it should get to review President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran have received a boost from an unlikely source: Vladimir Putin. On Tuesday, just 24...

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