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February 5, 2006 Times Change “The President has enhanced responsibility to resist unconstitutional provisions that encroach upon the constitutional powers of the Presidency.”... February 1, 2006 Terrorists Take Charge Terrorists Take Charge In a way, Ariel Sharon has been proven wrong. In a way, Ariel Sharon has been proven right. Last summer, Israel's Prime Minister relinquished all claims to Ga... January 31, 2006 Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes... January 31, 2006 Political Islam and Regime Survival in Egypt This monograph reviews what practical difference reforms made for the 2005 elections and explores the uneasy and ambiguous relationship between the regime and political Islam. Its main thesis is... January 30, 2006 CATM Praises the Netherlands for Banning Iranian-Backed Terrorist Broadcasts Washington, D.C. (Jan. 31, 2006) -- The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) today praised the Netherlands for banning two Iranian-funded television stations – Hezbolla... January 30, 2006 FDD Congratulates Staff Member Tanya Gilly on Election to Iraqi National Assembly “Tanya has long believed that Iraq can be a free, democratic, pluralistic society,” said FDD President Clifford May. “She has worked hard for that goal here at FDD for the... January 29, 2006 Questions Hamas May Not Be Able to Answer By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as the Palestinian commission for elections declared Hamas as a winner of the legislative elections in Gaza and the West Bank, a hurricane of quest... January 29, 2006 Terrorists at the Gates By: 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, Michael I. Krauss & Peter J. Pham. Last week, the terrorist group Hamas scored a breathtaking victory in the Palestinian Authority (PA) parliam... January 29, 2006 Sanction — Before it’s Too Late By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. The Mideast mess just gets messier. Last week's Palestinian election win by the Islamist terrorist party Hamas was bad enough. Now we face a growin... January 29, 2006 How to ‘Connect the Dots’ EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the January 30, 2006, issue of National Review. Washington’s scandal du jour involves a wartime surveillance program President B... January 28, 2006 Letter to the Editor Joseph J. Ellis's ethnocentric view doesn't take into account that 9/11 is part of a broader string of deadly events in the international arena; unlike the War of Independence and the C... January 27, 2006 FDD Middle East Expert Walid Phares Visits Europe to Discuss Iran, Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Future Washington, D.C. (Jan. 27, 2006) –Dr. Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and author of the new book Future Jihad, will mak... January 26, 2006 Future Jihad, Terrorist Strategies Against America by FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares Future Jihad looks to both the past and future of the terrorist campaign against the free world by focusing on its historical, religious and cultural roots. Along the way, Phares provides i... January 25, 2006 AWOL in the War of Ideas It is one thing to tell the truth even when it damages your friends. It's another to tell untruths in order not to offend your enemies. It's one thing to give the devil his due. It&#039... January 23, 2006 A Star Rises in Bethlehem By: 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, Michael I. Krauss & J. Peter Pham. This past Thursday, Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, following the Julian calendar, celebrated the feas... January 23, 2006 Spirited Defense Maintaining that his administration was engaged in a “terrorist surveillance program” rather than, as his critics scoff, “domestic spying,” President Bush offered a spirit... January 22, 2006 U.N. Procurement Scandal: A ‘Culture of Impunity’ UNITED NATIONS — How bad is the still expanding scandal in the United Nations' multi-billion-dollar procurement division? Based on a still-secret internal investigation, the answ... January 22, 2006 The Probable Cause of the NSA Controversy Imagine for a moment that we are at war. (For many of us, that will not require a very active imagination.) Our military-theater commanders in western Afghanistan and central Iraq sketch... January 21, 2006 Liberty vs. Terror Review of Protecting Liberty In An Age Of Terror by Philip B. Heyman In a poisonous atmosphere where worthy debates over the Patriot Act and domestic surveillance are marred by risible analogies to the worst excesses of Watergate, a thoughtful book by two former h... January 20, 2006 News Conference Calls for Action on Iran Washington, DC (Jan. 20, 2006) - The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) will hold a news conference on Monday, January... January 18, 2006 Nuclear-Armed Terrorists Four years after terrorists slaughtered 3,000 innocent Americans it should go without saying that the “international community” would not let a terrorist-sponsoring nation acquire nuc... January 15, 2006 Walid Phares: Allies or Not Allies is the Question By: Dr. Walid Phares. Walid Phares asked me to post the following for him (quote him directly) - EDIT: I added links to Intelligence Summit clips of his weekend TV appearances:... January 11, 2006 Ariel Maneuvers Four years ago this month, I visited Israel for the first time and had a meeting with Ariel Sharon. To say his public image was unfavorable would be a gross understatement. By contrast, Palestini... January 9, 2006 Strong Implications In the ever-more-amazing United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, the arrest in Houston last Friday of South Korean businessman Tongsun Park brings us a step closer to understanding the origins of th... January 8, 2006 On Israel’s Horizon By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Most everyone is observing a respectful period of concern and national prayer, but Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's crippling stroke has turned the Is... January 4, 2006 FISA Gotcha! What if President Bush had actually gone to the court created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Imagine if, instead of relying on his own constitutional authority, he ha... January 2, 2006 Kim Philby Was Here Richard Carlson is Vice Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He has experience in journalism and diplomacy and is a former United State... December 29, 2005 Freed Terrorist is One Too Many By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Like millions of other Americans, I can't forget the brutal 1985 torture and murder of young U.S. naval officer Robert Dean Stethem. Appar... December 28, 2005 CATM Removes Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television from Satellite Broadcasting into North and South Americ CATM Removes Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television from Satellite Broadcasting into North and South America Al-Manar off the air in U.S. after CATM alerts Hispamar satellite company to station's... December 28, 2005 An Old-fashioned War To be fair to our enemies, they are only doing what comes naturally. We are the historical oddballs. Wars have been fought since time immemorial. The vast majority have been over power a... December 27, 2005 Mr. Sevan, I Presume At the United Nations, as a year of many scandals draws to a close, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been trying to stuff some big unanswered questions down the memory hole--with mixed results. N... December 24, 2005 Sharon’s Next Step — Or Why I Gave up Jelly Donuts By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Questions about Ariel Sharon's health have thrown the Mideast into a political dither. The seemingly indefatigable Israeli prime minister suffered... December 21, 2005 You Bet Your Life Let's roll the dice. It's been more than four years since terrorists slipped past American intelligence, eluded law enforcement and slaughtered thousands of Americans on American soil.... December 21, 2005 Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l... December 21, 2005 The Blow-Up In a telling moment at a United Nations press conference Wednesday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan lost his temper–hurling insults at a widely respected senior member of the U.N. press corps.... December 14, 2005 France OKs Terrorist TV Statement of Avi Jorisch, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and author of Beacon of Hatred, Inside Hizballah's Al-Manar Television, on Fr... December 14, 2005 Misguided Morality No one favors torture. Torture is already illegal under both U.S. and international law. Nonetheless, the United States is fighting a war against ruthless enemies who obey no rules. We cannot aff... December 14, 2005 Unserious Syriana How hopeless is Hollywood? More than four years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America's movie moguls seem to have not a clue about who attacked us or why, or what sort o... December 14, 2005 McCain & Miranda Senator John McCain’s confusing and vague amendment, calling for a government-wide ban on coercive interrogation, appears to be a done deal. But President Bush should really bear the politi... December 13, 2005 Claudia Rosett Receives the Center for Security Policy’s “Mightier Pen” Award Washington, D.C. (Dec. 14, 2005) – The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies congratulates Claudia Rosett for receiving the Center for Security Policy's “Mig... December 13, 2005 The Elephant in the Middle East Living Room Early in November, hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee examined hate literature being distributed in American mosques. This material had been translated and published earlier this year... December 13, 2005 R., International Community One has to wonder whether Senator Lindsey Graham, in his haste to ban all forms of coercive interrogation — including those that are not torture and that may save American lives — has... December 13, 2005 Gebran Tueni, R.I.P. At a rally of the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon this past March, among the chants of "Death to America" and the banners lauding Syria, some of the demonstrators brandished posters that thr... December 11, 2005 The International-Law Trap Who should decide what obligations the United States owes to the world? Who should determine what measures are necessary to protect the United States from attack? Should it be t... December 11, 2005 Egyptian Legislative Elections: A Reading of the Results Egypt completed the final round of balloting in legislative elections on December 7. The first round of polling took place on November 9; all told 5,414 candidates vied for 444 seats in the lower... December 8, 2005 U.N. Procurement Scandal: The Case of the Official Who Never Was Co-authored by: George Russell UNITED NATIONS — Trouble in the United Nations Procurement Division is now well established as the world organization’s successo... December 7, 2005 It’s Time to Investigate Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission ’Tis the season when annual performance awards are handed out. If there is one for chutzpah, could there possibly be a more worthy candidate than the 9/11 commission? It appears th... December 7, 2005 Purple Fingers of Freedom I was having dinner with some people I didn't know well, and I happened to mention that a good deal of my time in recent years has been spent working with Arabs and Muslims on questions rela... December 6, 2005 The Pledge for Iraq Washington, D.C. (Dec. 7, 2005) – On Friday, December 9, representatives from a coalition of Iraqi organizations and individuals will hold a press conference at the Nationa... November 30, 2005 We Have Ways To Make You Talk Abu Ghraib was a travesty and a tragedy. It tarnished America's reputation and credibility. It gave ammunition to America's enemies and critics. It set back progress in Iraq. W...

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