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May 31, 2012 Obama’s Syria Policy: Ask Putin Some have argued that last week’s massacre in the Syrian city of Houla, where Bashar al-Assad loyalists killed more than a hundred people, a third of whom were children, may in time come to... May 31, 2012 The Real ‘Spring’ is Not Arab Buried beneath the news’ cycle of the Arab Spring is a much overlooked and potentially r... May 31, 2012 US Taxpayers Aid to UNRWA Tops $10 Billion A battle erupted on Capitol Hill over the mandate of the organization charged with disbursing international aid to Palestinian refugees. Last week, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) challenged the United N... May 31, 2012 Bradley Manning is No Gay Hero From 1916, when the United States military first expressly prohibited homosexuals, until the 1993 passage of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), gay men and women were considered psychologi... May 30, 2012 Did Adam Gadahn Play a Significant Role in bin Laden’s al Qaeda? Brian Dodwell has an article in the new CTC Sentinel entitled “The Quiet Ascent... May 30, 2012 European Profligacy In his 1992 book The Culture of Contentment John Kenneth Galbraith said the cyclical failure of political systems to recognise and adapt to paradigm shifts was caused by... May 30, 2012 “The Sword On Our Neck” Remember when Meir Dagan, upon leaving office as head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, gave a... May 30, 2012 A Defense of Drone Attacks in Pakistan Under Humanitarian Law Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, international law has had to grapple with the fundamental challenges that large-scale violence carried out by non-state actors pos... May 30, 2012 Whose Middle East Policy Is It, Anyway? If we set up an organization to provide health care, over time more people should get well. If we set up an organization to assist the poor, over time more people should earn a living. If w... May 29, 2012 Sorry Baroness Ashton, Iran Won’t Concede in Baghdad When, over a year ago, tensions began to publicly surface between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, the Western press concluded that Ahmadinejad... May 29, 2012 A Great Time for a Fresh Look at the Armenian Genocide This week, a Turkish court approved a criminal indictment against four former Israeli military commanders for their alleged role in the deaths of nine Turkish activists who were trying to break I... May 29, 2012 Iran Rules So we had important talks with the Iranian regime and reached an important agreement to have more important talks with them next month. No one on our team seems the least bit embarrassed, n... May 29, 2012 Austria’s Günter Grass Scandal: The Socialism of Fools My latest straight-news report on critics asserting that Austrian defense minister Norbert Darabos ignores Iran’s det... May 29, 2012 Yep: Robert Mugabe, UN Leader for Tourism Surely even the United Nations would hesitate over celebrating Zimbabwe’s longtime despot, Robert Mugabe, as a “leader” of any kind? That’s why, in my... May 24, 2012 A Second-Best President for Egypt This week, Egyptians will elect a president for the first time in their history. Since 1953, the year in which Egypt became a republic, the country’s presidents have been no more than milit... May 24, 2012 Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Aruna Papp, and the Scourge of Misogyny in the Developing World On Tuesday night, Toronto witnessed the launch of books by two Canadian activists. The authors were born in very different parts of the world. Yet the crimes against women described in these book... May 24, 2012 The Failure to Admit Failure A recent... May 24, 2012 The Magician Behind Iran’s Vanishing Oil Tankers This interesting article by the Journalist-in-Residence at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies sheds some light on one of what undoubtedly are many efforts by the Iranian government to... May 23, 2012 Time to Call Pakistan What It Is — a State Supporter of Terrorism Here in the West, the killing of Osama Bin Laden was considered a triumph. In Pakistan, where the al-Qaeda leader lived out his final years, attitudes are very different: On Wednesday, a Pakistan... May 23, 2012 Why We Need to Know Why — Honoring Attorney General Mukasey Last night in New York City, I had the privilege of presenting former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey with the 2012 Freedom Flame Award, an annual honor bestowed by Frank Gaffney’s... May 23, 2012 US Drones Kill 4 ‘Militants’ in North Waziristan The US launched its first drone airstrike inside Pakistan in more than two weeks, killing four "militants" today in an area of Pakistan that has been under Taliban control for eight years.... May 23, 2012 What Iran’s Rulers Want It’s no longer possible to pretend we don’t know the intentions of Iran’s rulers. They are telling us – candidly, clearly and repeatedly. Most recently on Sunday: Addressi... May 22, 2012 How About Leading from the Front? According to recent news reports, the Romney foreign policy team is trying to figure out what the presumptive Republican candidate thinks America’s role in the world should be. He’s b... May 22, 2012 When the State Steals, the People Become Thieves Friday we sailed around Capri and then across to the Bay of Salerno. Very few boats around, and nary a oee of the luxury yachts so common in those waters. We went to a seaside restaur... May 22, 2012 The Supreme Court Enters the Surveillance Debate Since 2004, the Supreme Court’s transnational progressive bloc has forged a novel — and, in my view, a damaging — judicial oversight role in American national security. The whim... May 22, 2012 Defining Palestinian Refugee Status and the Consequences In what can be described as both a landmark bill for Middle East peace and a provocation that could stir the wrath of the whole Arab world, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) has proposed legislation t... May 22, 2012 An Underwhelming Approach to Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Wednesday’s meeting on... May 21, 2012 Sanctioning Iran’s Central Bank: An Important Step Too Long in Coming Washington is abuzz with speculation about a possible interim deal that might help defuse the brewing crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Color me skeptical. That said, one thing se... May 21, 2012 From Democracy to Sharia A few weeks ago, amid the “Arab Spring” giddiness, a Shiite mosque opened in Cairo. This was big news. Among Egypt’s 80 million people, there are only... May 21, 2012 Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics Edited by Raimond Gaita. Crawley, Aus.: UWA Pub... May 21, 2012 Iran Decided Long Ago on Nuclear Weapons Michael Rubin has referenced important statements, recent and past, made by senior Iranian officials on I... May 21, 2012 Sanctioning Iran’s Central Bank: An Important Step Too Long in Coming Washington is abuzz with speculation about a possible interim deal that might help defuse the brewing crisis over Iran's nuclear program. Color me skeptical. That said, one thing se... May 21, 2012 Alleged Iranian Spy Was Scapegoated Last week, Iranian blogger Potkin Azarmehr questioned the... May 21, 2012 Israel’s Gay Rights Record Touted in NY The alumni association of Birthright Israel placed a mural in Manhattan’s West Village neighborhood last week, which juxtaposed the rights of gays in Israel with criminal penalties for gays... May 21, 2012 Arno Lustiger: Historian of Shoah Resistance Dies Arno Lustiger, an autodidactic historian and author who brilliantly and meticulously chronicled Jewish resistance to the Hitler movement, died on Tuesday in Frankfurt. Lustiger, wh... May 21, 2012 AQAP Suicide Bomber Kills Nearly 100 Yemeni Troops in Capital An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula suicide bomber killed more than 90 Yemeni troops as they practiced for a parade in the capital of Sana'a. The suicide bomber was dressed as a so... May 21, 2012 UNRWA’s Status Update A war is brewing on Capitol Hill. And while wars tend to create refugees, this one may result in fewer of them. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is trying to get a handle on the real number of Pale... May 18, 2012 Terrorist Financing Since 9/11: Assessing an Evolving al Qaeda and State Sponsors of Terrorism Download the full testimony here (PDF). Chairman Meehan, Ranking Member Higgins, and members of the subcomm... May 18, 2012 Facebook Must Contend with Saudi Radicalism Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg turned 28 this week. When he sat in his dorm room at Harvard eight years ago, cooking up what later became the world’s largest social network, Zuckerberg en... May 18, 2012 Borum’s “Radicalization into Violent Extremism I” The Journal of Strategic Security recently produced a special issue focusing on radicalization, which should be of immense inte... May 18, 2012 Terrorist Financing Since 9/11: Assessing an Evolving al Qaeda and State Sponsors of Terrorism Download the full testimony here (PDF). Chairman... May 17, 2012 US Not Thinking Syriously As the situation in Syria drags on, the international community remains opposed to intervention against the Assad regime. In the meantime, some in the US continue to pin hope on the emergence of... May 17, 2012 Tea Party Should Oppose Latest Terrorist Bill of Rights The reckless crew is at it again. Libertarian extremists, who purport to be the face of the tea party movement, and their pals on the Lawyer Left, whose obsession is more rights for mass... May 17, 2012 Missile Defense Is For Wimps Last week, the major media focused on issues of global consequence – like whether Mitt Romney and his “... May 17, 2012 Pakistani Jihadists Reported in Northern Mali Over the past two months, Tuareg rebels, backed by Islamist terror groups such as Ansar al Dine, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, have seized cont... May 17, 2012 Iran Sanctions: Strategy, Implementation and Enforcement Download the full testimony here (PDF).... May 16, 2012 US Drone Strikes Kill 7 AQAP Fighters, 8 Civilians in Yemen The US launched two drone strikes today in a city in southern Yemen that is currently under the control of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Seven AQAP fighters and eight civilians are reported... May 16, 2012 Moderation Happens To Islam, Not In Islam “If you want meaningful moderation in Islam, then turn for more lessons to the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, Indonesia.” I imagine my colleague Irshad Manji is having... May 16, 2012 Hezbollah’s Newest Threat Hezbollah’s goal, in the words of its senior officials, has always been to create a society of resistance... May 16, 2012 Conflicting Definitions of ‘Pro-Israel’ on Either Side of the Atlantic During a recent trip to Washington, I was introduced to an Israeli diplomat as the JPost's European Correspondent. The diplomat issued a tart reply laced with biting sarcasm: "My cond...

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