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August 19, 2014
Despite Sanctions Relief, Iran Aids Hamas With Missile Technology
... “You get a sense that we’re on a two-year cycle right now, where Iran helps build up the military capabilities of Hamas by smugglin...
August 19, 2014
Islam’s Dilemma Over the Islamic State
... The problem, as Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracy pointed out recently, is that the United States has no “overarching...
August 19, 2014
Iraqi Military Launches Major Offensive to Reclaim Tikrit from Militants
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August 18, 2014
How America Lost the Middle East
... The US invasion of Iraq "started this new round of competition" between Iran and Saudi Arabia, according to Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a s...
August 18, 2014
Iran Lures Investors Seeing Nuclear Deal Ending Sanctions
... Many U.S. laws restricting trade with Iran predate concerns about Iran’s nuclear program and are related to Iran’s alleged sponsorship of terrorism and human ri...
August 18, 2014
Some Realism on Russia
... Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies suggests using the Patriot Act's Section 311 to designate major Russian banks t...
August 18, 2014
Iraq Crisis: Kurds Push to Take Mosul Dam as U.S. Gains Controversial Guerrilla Ally
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August 18, 2014
The Remarkable Story Of A Rising Terrorism Analyst Who Got Too Close To His Subjects
... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, called the exchange "pretty disturbing."...
August 15, 2014
ISIS Brutality Proves Potent Weapon
... "There's still much politics beneath the surface that is likely to reemerge once the Isis situation is stabilised," says Tony Badra...
August 15, 2014
US, NATO Charge Russian Weapons Flooding Eastern Ukraine
... “These aren’t plug and play toys," said Boris Zilberman. Zilberman, with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,...
August 13, 2014
Banks Woo Treasury Sanctions Pros to Navigate Complex U.S. Rules
... The Treasury has enough experienced people to adjust to the departures, said Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a nonpro...
August 13, 2014
Khamenei Says No Dice On A Nuclear Deal
... This suggests that for all the nice words from the “moderate” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the regime is fundamentally unwilling to give up its nuclear capabilities...
August 11, 2014
Expert: In Supporting Hamas through UNRWA, UN Complicit in Terror
Writing Friday in The Wall Street Journal, Claudia Rosett, a journalist in residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, takes United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to task for...
August 8, 2014
Russia And Iran Reportedly Signed A Huge Oil Deal — But No One Knows The Details
... Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on the Iran sanctions regime, told Business Insider that he was...
August 8, 2014
How Obama and Netanyahu Can Make Up
... Stop the leaks is the advice of Jonathan Schanzer, a vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “So much is fl...
August 8, 2014
Turmoil in the Middle East Is Setting Up Some Strange Bedfellows
... “The Gaza War has been a gift to Khamenei,” says Ali Alfoneh, an Iran researcher and a senior fellow at the Foundation for D...
August 7, 2014
‘Global Jihad’ Big Winner from Gaza Crisis, Analysts Say
... “With the devastation in Gaza, it will be a hard sell,” said Jonathan Schanzer, a Mideast scholar at the Foundation for the...
August 7, 2014
Libia pogrąża się w całkowitym chaosie
... Trudno pogodzić się z myślą, że interwencja zbrojna Zachodu, którego intencje były dobre, przyniosła więcej złego niż dobrego...
August 7, 2014
Terror Finance Worries May Curb Doha Kidnap Mediation
... "To some extent US officials already knew about this trend," says David Weinberg, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democra...
August 7, 2014
U.S. General Killed in Afghan Soldier’s Attack at Military Academy Near Kabul
... The shooting was the third insider, or “green on blue,” attack this year and the first fatal assault since February, according to T...
August 7, 2014
U.S. General Killed in Attack at Afghan Military Academy
... Insider attacks have been a core concern of coalition troops in Afghanistan for years. As of June 24, there had been 87 there since 2008, killing 142 coalition troops and wounding an...
August 7, 2014
Jewish Group to Hold Aspen Talk on Israel
The latest round of bloodshed in Gaza will end, but Clifford May, who is following the situation closely, says he’s not sure when. May, a former New York Times reporter, is the pre...
August 6, 2014
Hard Facts, Unpleasant Realities About Gaza
... Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies tells Right Turn, “The best case scenario for Gaza would be a demilitarize...
August 5, 2014
EU Energy Restrictions on Russia Are Mostly “Sanctions Theatre”
... "The more this looks like the (U.S.) administration is using pages from the Iranian financial sanctions playbook, the greater the likelihood th...
August 5, 2014
Morning Bits
... “Over the last month, it has become increasingly clear that Doha acted more like a spoiler for peace than a partner in reaching a Gaza ce...
August 1, 2014
Experts Explain Why The New Russia Sanctions Still Won’t Work
... Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider the administration could do mo...
August 1, 2014
Extensive Hamas Tunnel Network Points to Israeli Intelligence Failure
... "Without a doubt, the full extent of the tunnels was not discovered until the ground operation began" in early July, said Jonathan Schan...
August 1, 2014
Did Iran Scuttle the Ceasefire in Gaza?
... As Iran analyst Ali Alfoneh noted yesterday,...
July 31, 2014
Recent History Suggests Tougher Russia Sanctions Are Needed
... "The more this looks like the administration is using pages from the Iranian financial sanctions playbook, the greater the likelihood that mark...
July 31, 2014
What We Know So Far About the Passenger Jet Shot Down in Ukraine
Crucially, the Ukrainian armed forces also have the Buk missile system, which gives Russia and its proxies a measure of plausible deniability if it is confirmed that a Buk was indeed responsible...
July 31, 2014
Congressman Tells Kerry: Stop Partnering with Hamas’ Top Ally
... Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the Treasury Department, said it is time the United States addressed Qatar’s rogue activities....
July 30, 2014
U.S., Europe Hit Russia With New Sanctions
... Earlier sanctions were more symbolic in nature, and "were sort of the bare minimum the EU had to do in order to pass the laugh test," sa...
July 30, 2014
Congress Grows Restless As Iran Talks Drag
... Mark Dubowitz, an Iran sanctions expert and executive director of the hawkish Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said the administration will likely have to compromise on som...
July 30, 2014
Iraq Struggles to Halt Militants’ March on Baghdad
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July 29, 2014
The Islamic State Is The Newest Petrostate
... However, that money is also desperately needed to cover the salaries of public workers in places the militants now occupy. Providing basic public services to show that they can do mo...
July 28, 2014
Gaza Conflict Spotlights Role of Qatar, the Hamas-Funding U.S. Ally
... “Qatar is a very strange place. They rely on the U.S. for protection and invest heavily in the U.S.,” said Jonathan Schanzer...
July 28, 2014
International Arrests Show Women Are Playing an Active Role in Al Shabaab
... “These are actually very difficult organizations to kill,” Gartenstein-Ross told VICE News. “...
July 28, 2014
UAE Stiffens Counterterror Laws
... The UAE’s action mirrors a trend in the West, which has added legal tools to fight terrorism since 9/11, said David Andrew Weinberg, senior fellow and Gulf Affairs expert at th...
July 28, 2014
Israel Still Swears Hamas Kidnapped Those Teens
... At issue is whether or not the two Hamas suspects were acting on orders from the group’s Gaza leadership. To date no Israeli officials have asserted that. &n...
July 28, 2014
Kerry’s Meddling Goes Nowhere, Obama Tries Rescuing Hamas
... Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies observes, “With tempers flaring across the region — including Palest...
July 25, 2014
Even If An Intifada Has Started In The West Bank, It Won’t Look Anything Like The Last One
... "Just because people say there's an Intifada on twitter doesn't mean there's one in the West Bank," Grant Rumley, an expe...
July 24, 2014
Qatar’s Purchase Of Billions Of US Weaponry, And Support For Hamas, Shows How Awkward Foreign…
... Jonathan Schanzer, the vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider that Qatar is "believed...
July 24, 2014
Experts: Don’t Reward Qatar and Turkey By Letting Them Dictate Israel/Hamas Ceasefire
Responding to reports that the United States, anxious to facilitate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, “may be looking to Qatar and Turkey to help...
July 23, 2014
With Iran, Uranium Enrichment Remains Stumbling Block
... Mark Dubowitz, the executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a think tank that has consulted closely with congressional skeptics of the nuclear talks, also sai...
July 23, 2014
Tel Aviv Flight Ban Cuts off Israelis
... Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said he was at the airport two weeks ago, waiting for a flight to Washington, when sirens...
July 23, 2014
Qatar Seeks to Pull Hamas Away from Iran
... Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a former terrorism finance analyst at the US Department of the Treasury, told The Jeru...
July 23, 2014
Hezbollah Talks Big But Bows Out of the Gaza War
... Meanwhile the Hamas rupture with Hezbollah and Tehran left the Palestinian group cash-strapped, isolated and increasingly ostracized, according...
July 23, 2014
Egypt’s ‘Not-So-Subtle’ Message to John Kerry
... “This was a not-so-subtle message delivered by the el-Sissi regime that the ties between the United States and Egypt have cooled consider...
July 23, 2014
Obama Is Now Boxed In By The Iranian Nuclear Negotiations
Some American officials are skeptical that even a four-month extension in talks will not be enough to resolve some of the ...
July 21, 2014
Iran Nuclear Talks Extended Until Late November
... "I think Congress at this point thinks that the administration has already provided too much sanctions relief," said Mark Dubowitz, exec...
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