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April 6, 2010 Iran’s Palestinian Uprising Hundreds of Palestinian youths wrapped in checkered headscarves held demonstrations in the West Bank last week. Some erupted in violence. Last weekend, no less than three Palestinian factions cla... April 5, 2010 Book Review: The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution The Islamic Republic of Iran's standoff with the international community over its nuclear ambitions shifted to a new phase following the overwhelming November 27, 2009, vote by the Internati... April 1, 2010 Turban Renewal? In his new book, After Khomeini, Said Amir Arjomand, a professor from Stony Brook University, writes in three different voices – the professor, the reformist and the apologist – that... April 1, 2010 The Spy Who Loved Peace President Obama thinks Israel’s policies are the biggest obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Hamas disagrees. The problem for Hamas, writes Mosab Hassan Yousef, has never been &l... March 31, 2010 Obama’s Anti-Missile Defense Adviser President Barack Obama has nominated an anti-missile defense adviser who may soon receive congressional approval — and put Americans in danger. Russia and China, two countries with... March 31, 2010 AFRICOM: Terrorism and Security Challenges in Africa AFRICOM is not merely a post-Cold War experiment to respond to the security challenges of the twenty-first century, but also a much-needed updating of the internal structural framework that has l... March 30, 2010 Should Terrorism Suspects be Tried in Federal Court? Co-Authored with Lee A. Casey Terrorism suspects like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, should be tried in military commissions, not in U.S. c... March 26, 2010 Turkey Tilts Toward Iran Drinking tea with the President of Turkey has charms enough so that I wish there were no need to report the disturbing talk that went with it--of Iranian rulers and nuclear bombs. But th... March 25, 2010 The Time Is Now to Act Against Iran According to The Wall Street Journal, the United States is considering watering down latest U.N. sanctions proposal in order to get China and Russia on board. We've already had three rounds... March 25, 2010 So, You Still Want to Close Gitmo? Mohamedou Slahi is responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans. He was a core member of the 9/11 conspiracy — the recruiter of Mohamed Atta and the other ringleaders. If he’d... March 25, 2010 Our Man in Jeddah Last month, President Obama announced the appointment of Rashad Hussain as ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference. By video, Obama told attendees at something called the U.S.-Is... March 24, 2010 Russia’s Lukoil Ends Iran Energy Development Project over Concern about Increased U.S. Sanctions Press Release March 24, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org Russia's Lukoil Ends Iran Energy Development Project... March 23, 2010 Missionary Man in Damascus Last week, the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Robert Ford as the new ambassador to Syria. While Ford's confirmation still awaits a full Senate... March 22, 2010 Stalking the CIA Co-Authored with Debra Burlingame Last week, Bill Gertz of the Washington Times broke news of a fight between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice. The... March 19, 2010 Bomb Iran or Let Them Get the Bomb? Remember when candidate Obama promised aggressive diplomacy to deal with Iran’s nuclear weapons program? Yet, every time President Obama offered has offered the Iranians the hand of friends... March 18, 2010 FDD Applauds Designation of Hamas TV as Terrorist Organization Press Release March 18, 2010 CONTACT: Judy Mayka 202-621-3948 judy@defenddemocracy.org FDD Applauds Designation of Hamas TV as Terrorist Organization Washington,... March 18, 2010 Peace Later Apparently, some things cannot be tolerated. For example, while Vice President Joe Biden was visiting Israel last week, Jerusalem’s Regional Planning Council announced its approval of plans... March 18, 2010 Missed Opportunities To Pressure Iran President Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office on January 20, 2009, with new strategies to confront Iran's illicit nuclear activity. His bold offer to engage the Mullahs, however futile... March 18, 2010 A Modest Proposal For Israel Here's the latest in our occasional series of how-to memos on global diplomacy. Memo: To Israel From: Big Brother Consulting Service, Washington, D.C. Executive Su... March 17, 2010 The Worst Crisis in 35 Years? The current diplomatic crisis between Israel and the United States is a manufactured one. President Obama chose to exploit Israel’s ill-timed announcement to build new homes in east Jerusal... March 16, 2010 Memo to Baroness Ashton: Embrace Israel On the eve of her departure for the Middle East, Baroness Catherine Ashton, Europe's new foreign policy czar, reaffirmed the European Union's long-standing refusal to upgrade its relati... March 16, 2010 Iran Took A Hit In Iraq, But Will Obama Profit? The emerging picture from last week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq points to the return of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office. Preliminary results also suggest that Iran’s al... March 16, 2010 Hope And Change In Iraq In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of... March 16, 2010 Obama Fans Flames In Israel After a diplomatic crisis last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been working to bring calm to the region, while U.S. President Barack Obama inexplicably appears to be trying to... March 16, 2010 The Real Terror War Is On The Internet Terrorists and rogue states are moving their battle to the Internet in a virtual war against liberal democracy. For too long, the United States and its allies have ignored the incitement and viol... March 12, 2010 Opposing view: ‘No right to counsel’ It is absurd for critics of Keep America Safe to proclaim an American legal tradition of representing alien enemy combatants. There is none. To mask this inconvenient fact, critics speak in gobbl... March 12, 2010 The Next Wave of Jihadists The arrest of “JihadJane,” aka Colleen Renee LaRose, a blond-haired, blue-eyed, 46-year-old American, ought to make us reflect on a major ingredient in contemporary jihadism: We... March 11, 2010 Evil As Usual Movies and television teach us that evil comes draped in drama, set to a sinister sound track, often with lots of visible gore. But all too often, especially in matters of tyranny, evil appears i... March 11, 2010 The Nightmare No One In America Sees Coming Ever heard of Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP? Probably not, unless you’re a nuclear weapons expert. In the 1950's, At the dawn of the nuclear age, most weapons analysts f... March 10, 2010 No Peace While World War Rages Israel’s American supporters spend a lot of energy trying to convince people that Israelis want peace, are working for peace and are prepared to sacrifice for peace. All that’s true b... March 9, 2010 Why The al-Qaeda Seven Matter My flight had been delayed, so I arrived late to a 2004 academic conference, a law school gab-fest exploring legal issues in the War on Terror. The professor giving the keynote address was well i... March 9, 2010 Who Is Leading On US-Mideast Policy? In the past week, a new element was introduced into the unfolding and cacophonous saga of the Obama administration’s new Syria policy, namely the appearance of Senator John Kerry.... March 8, 2010 FDD Welcomes Reports that Two Large Gasoline Suppliers to Iran Bow Out of Market Press Release March 8, 2010 CONTACT: Noah Chestnut 202-390-2251 nchestnut@defenddemocracy.org Bill McCarthy 202-207-0183 bill@defenddemocracy.org FDD... March 5, 2010 Scion Of Hamas Meet Mosab Hassan Yousef, a genuine Palestinian freedom fighter. He was raised to become a leader of the terrorist group Hamas--strict Muslims dedicated to the destruction of Israel. But the horr... March 2, 2010 $150 Million for Yemeni ‘Encouragement’ ''Yemen's willingness... to confront the serious threat al Qaeda poses to the nation's stability has been inconsistent in the past, but our recent intensive engagement appears... March 2, 2010 Why Does Obama Refuse to Lead in Iraq? Last week, General Raymond Odierno, the commander of American forces in Iraq, made statements that refocused attention on the strategic importance of Iraq for US regional interests. Odierno frame... March 2, 2010 Why France Is Right About the Burqa In his 2009 Cairo address to the Muslim world, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned no fewer than three times the issue of the headscarf, or hijab. Each time, his purpose was to stress “th... February 26, 2010 Ghana’s Dubious New Partner Over the last decade the United States has successfully transformed its foreign aid efforts. Dollars aren't simply being delivered to corrupt regimes, helping keep them in power with nothing... February 25, 2010 How to Stifle Speech There's an old Soviet joke in which an American tells a Russian: "In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in front of the White House and yell, ‘Nixon is an idiot!' a... February 25, 2010 Video Killer Thriller In Dubai Rarely has Big Brother been so generous with his video clips. Last week Dubai authorities released surveillance camera footage of 11 suspects wanted for the assassination of a top Hamas terrorist... February 25, 2010 Congressional Democrats Take Aim at Interrogators Co-Authored with Stephen F. Hayes Update: A press release from Pete Hoekstra's office indicates that the House bill has been pulled because of opposition to the pr... February 24, 2010 Smart Sanctions Can Work Against Iran After a fraudulent election and its brutal aftermath, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his junta must now be persuaded that their pursuit of nuclear weapons will be unbearably costly.... February 24, 2010 We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to ne... February 24, 2010 Ahmadinejad Personally Recruited Sanctions Buster During New York Trip, Court Documents Show For the fifth time in five years, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is descending on New York to speak at the September opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His previous visits have s... February 24, 2010 Why Iran Could Be Obama’s Defining Moment President Obama has just been presented with what could be the defining moment of his presidency and perhaps a defining moment in world history. On the eve of his speech calling on the nations of t... February 24, 2010 Can Sanctions “Cripple” Iran? In 1981, Israeli leaders sent bombers to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak. Rafael Eitan, then Israel's Army Chief of Staff, is said to have explained the motivation succinctly: "T... February 24, 2010 Time for a Hail Mary On Iran Diplomacy without leverage isn't negotiating, it's begging. And with Iran standing at the threshold of nuclear weapons, begging is NOT the right strategy. Iran's nuclear game is in the final... February 24, 2010 Using Stronger Sanctions to Increase Negotiating Leverage With Iran Six days after his inauguration, President Barack Obama declared that "if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us." Over the 10 months since... February 24, 2010 Out of Gas: Why Sanctions on Iran Are Still the Best Option Following the passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act in the U.S. House of Representatives today, it's worth considering the following facts... February 24, 2010 Iran’s Global Bedfellows If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Amer...

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