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February 23, 2015 Hillary’s Cowardice in Face of Looming Iran Debacle ... There are glaring deficiencies with both suggestions. For starters, since the administration has permitted Iranian stonewalling of the IAEA there is no effective means of insp... February 23, 2015 Leader of Anti-Proliferation Org Changes Tune on Preventing Iran Nukes ... Nuclear experts criticized Cirincione’s change of heart. “Joseph Cirincione was right in 2005 when he said that we cannot leave Iran ‘a screwdriver&r... February 23, 2015 Giving Iran Everything It Wants ... So Iran gets everything and we put the good seal of approval on it. This is even more absurd when one considers how ephemeral the inspections “safeguard” would be, since Ir... February 23, 2015 The Palestine 194 Plan for Legitimacy and Justice ... With Yasser Arafat's death in 2004, Mahmoud Abbas assumed the mantle of leadership and met with President Da Silva of Brazil in 2005 where they laid the groundwork for Latin Ameri... February 23, 2015 A US Federal Court Just Ordered the Palestinian Authority to Pay $218 Million in Damages ... Today's decision exposes the PA's legal vulnerabilities over its members' and constituent groups' connection to terrorism against Israelis. This ruling, alo... February 20, 2015 Turkey ‘Created a Monster and Doesn’t Know How to Deal With It’ ... The November report "Bordering on Terrorism: Turkey’s Syria Policy and the Rise of the Islamic State" details Turkey's apparent willingness to allow extremists — inclu... February 20, 2015 Pour les Juifs européens, l’antisémitisme s’aggrave ... « Cet antisémitisme classique, que l’on observait entre 1933 et 1945 en Allemagne, n’est pas très répandu », nuance toutefois Benja... February 20, 2015 Obama Blew it on Syria, By His Own Admission (Sort Of) ... It’s not like Obama didn’t get good advice on Syria years ago. “A few years ago, the president’s top advisers were recommending that he support the mode... February 20, 2015 Friend and Foe in Syria ... The evidence that the Israelis have no such immediate concerns regarding the Sunni rebels fighting against the Assad regime is that this was the first time Israel targeted the region a... February 20, 2015 How Would We Ever Verify a Deal with Iran? ... Mark Dubowitz rhetorically asks: “Who negotiates by letting Iran win massive concessions without requiring it to answer IAEA questions about weaponization?” Stonewa... February 19, 2015 An American Ally’s Grand Mosque of Hate ... Al Ateeq, who was on his sixth visit to the state-supervised Grand Mosque since 2013, reserved his most bellicose remarks for the part of the sermon called the du’aa, when the pr... February 19, 2015 Foundation for Defense of Democracies Names Award for Nisman ... The Foundation for Defense of Democracies named an honor for Alberto Nisman, the Argentinian prosecutor who investigated the 1994 AMIA bombing. &ldquo... February 19, 2015 How Many Fighters Does ISIS Have? ... The CIA’s first estimate was around 10,000 to 20,000 fighters, but recent reports suggest that the number has quadrupled. Russia put the number closer to 70,000, but estimates fr... February 19, 2015 Pentagon Keeps Low Profile at Extremism Summit ... Other experts agree. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says that the White House is correct that there is no sole military... February 19, 2015 Warren: President Obama Makes a Stand Yet Seemed Weak at ‘Summit’ Confronting Extremism ... But the Obama administration itself could use help. That’s especially true after many missteps, including misjudging the so-called Arab Spring, intervening in Libya and... February 19, 2015 Top Iranian Nuke Negotiator Ordered to Stop Screaming at Kerry ... The State Department declined to comment on reports about the Iranian Foreign Minister’s conversations with the Iranian Supreme Leader. Meanwhile, Khamenei, in a speech... February 19, 2015 Ten Recommendations for Obama’s CVE Summit ... 7. Try not to give terrorists the war they want—but be willing to protect core political cultural values. In a recent interesting piece... February 19, 2015 ISIS’ Sources of Revenue Unclear, But Group Well Financed ... According to Foreign Policy magazine, before the onset of U.S. airstrikes last summer, ISIS was estimated to be producing more than 80,000 barrels a day and selling it on the black mar... February 19, 2015 Losing Ground in Arab World, Hamas Seeking Iranian Support and New Front Against Israel ... The last Gaza war, also known as Operation Protective Edge, contributed to improved ties between Hamas and Hezbollah. Hezbollah’s official website reported that during the Gaza w... February 19, 2015 As David Cohen Becomes CIA’s No. 2, Jews Appear to Have Smoother Sailing at Security Agencies ... One reason David Cohen may have avoided such pitfalls is that he rose up through the Treasury, a relative latecomer to the intelligence game, but which has become one of the busiest in... February 18, 2015 Egypt Strikes Back Against ISIS In Libya — At Least For Now ... But the payoff may not be as strong as anticipated. A common joke among Washington’s Middle East insiders is that the Egyptian air force can’t fly at night — or in cl... February 18, 2015 The US War on Vagueness ... Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says the language of the summit isn't uniquely problematic but reflective of a broad... February 18, 2015 Saudi Cleric: The Sun Revolves Around the Earth ... While al-Khaibari’s remarks have been mocked on social networking sites such as Twitter, regional experts say his anti-science stance is embraced and promoted by leading Saudi cl... February 18, 2015 Syria and Sweden: A Distant Conflict With Serious Consequences at Home ... Turkey is the country that has offered the strongest support to rebel groups. Jonathan Schanzer at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies said to Al-Jazeera: &l... February 18, 2015 Fear of Shiites on the Rise in Turkey ... The framing of the news in Turkey also fans the flames of Shiite-phobia. The Turkish mainstream media, for instance, has been referring to almost all protests of the Arab Spring since... February 18, 2015 Islamic State Gains Libya Foothold ... Patrick Skinner, a former CIA case officer, is quoted by Foreign Policy magazine as saying that there are an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 fighters loyal to IS in Libya, many of whom acquir... February 18, 2015 The Islamic State of Libya Isn’t Much of a State ... Thomas Joscelyn, senior editor of the Long War Journal, which focuses on U.S. counterterrorism efforts, said the Islamic State “has been primarily drawing from young recr... February 18, 2015 Islamic State Lays Claim to North African Outpost ... Residents and activists in Derna were wary of talking about militants, who have carried out assassinations there. They said a Yemeni, believed to be named Abu El-Bara El-Azadi, arrived... February 17, 2015 ISIS Says Last American Hostage, a Female Aid Worker, Killed in Jordanian Airstrike ... “She may very well be dead, and probably is, but the alleged circumstances surrounding Mueller’s death don’t make sense,” said Thomas Joscelyn, senior e... February 13, 2015 U.S. Is Escalating a Secretive War in Afghanistan ... Mr. Kuwaiti himself may have unintentionally provided some clues about the nature of the intelligence in a eulogy he wrote three years ago for another senior Qaeda operative, who was k... February 13, 2015 After Marathon Talks, European Leaders Broker Ukraine Peace Deal ... Mr. Putin in agreeing to the deal put on the back-burner any talk of sending such U.S. offensive military equipment as armor piercing weapons to Kiev — a subject of intense debat... February 12, 2015 Kämpfen 200 000 Terroristen für ISIS? ... Die riesige Diskrepanz zwischen den Schätzungen war Anlass für den renommierten Terrorismus-Forscher Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, die Kämpferzahlen für das Debattenforu... February 12, 2015 Austrian Prosecutor: Call to Kill Jews is Legitimate Form of Protesting Against Israel ... The Facebook postings of an Austrian hairstylist calling for the killing of Jews was deemed a legitimate way to express ““displeasure toward Israel,” an Austr... February 12, 2015 Secret Iranian Unit Fueling Mideast Bloodshed With Illicit Arms Shipments ... In fact, the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned front companies used by the Quds Force’s Unit 190 to transport weapons to Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups in the Middle East in di... February 12, 2015 Foreign Recruits Are Islamic State’s Cannon Fodder ... Aspiring jihadists looking to join the Islamic State army are often lured to the front lines with promises of changing the course of history and reclaiming a lost Islamic empire.... February 11, 2015 Putin In Egypt: Hero’s Welcome A ‘Slap In The Face’ For Washington ... These high profile efforts along with the hero’s reception that greeted Putin on arrival Monday are a “slap in the face” to Washington, said Oren Kessler, the... February 11, 2015 Iran Is Ready to Take Over Iraq’s Troops ... “None of this comes as a surprise,” said Mark Dubowitz of the agreement and Iran’s expanding military role in Iraq. Dubowitz leads the Iran sanctions and nonp... February 11, 2015 Amid Political Instability, US Closes Its Embassy in Yemen ... The embassy closure will also complicate the CIA's operations in Yemen, U.S. intelligence officials acknowledge. Although CIA officers could continue to work out of U.S. military... February 10, 2015 Iran’s New U.N. Ambassador Urged ‘Resistance to Israel’ ... While Khoshroo is not often quoted in public, his anti-Israel rhetoric aligns with the views of top Iranian leaders, such as Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who is the lead n... February 10, 2015 An Ancillary Reason Why Hate-Speech and Hate-Crime Laws Are a Terrible Idea ... They don’t work — shockingly. American conservatives generally oppose laws restricting hateful speech, or raising penalties for crimes that are motivated by hate for a part... February 10, 2015 German Court Rules that Firebomb of Synagogue Was Not Motivated by Anti-Semitism ... A German court ruled last week that an firebomb attack on a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in July was motivated by a desire to bring “attention to the Gaza conflict,... February 9, 2015 Yemen Falls to Iran in Regional Proxy War ... David Andrew Weinberg, a specialist on Gulf affairs and a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Post that the Gulf monarchies are terrified about... February 9, 2015 The Fall of Yemen’s Government is a Huge Problem for Saudi Arabia ... Even so, the Saudis are under little illusion as to what the Houthi dissolution of the Yemini government means in the larger sense. They are likely to view regime change in Yemen as a... February 9, 2015 Doubts About ISIS Claim That Airstrike Killed Kayla Mueller ... The Islamist militants released no video to back up its claim Friday, only photos showing a flattened building. U.S. officials were trying to verify the claim that 26-year-old aid work... February 6, 2015 Fledgeling Gaza ISIS Groups Operate Under Watchful Eye of Hamas ... Grant Rumley, researcher of Palestinian and Jordanian politics at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is also doubtful of ISIS’s position in Gaza: “Some... February 5, 2015 Iran: The ‘Americans Are Begging Us for a Deal’ ... Regional experts say that the Iranians feel that they are in a position of power in the talks and believe that the Obama administration is desperate to ink a deal. &ld... February 5, 2015 West Bank Gun Battle Exposes Growing Resentment Towards Palestinian Authority ... Grant Rumley, an expert in Palestinian politics at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington points out that there is a growing gap between the younger and older... February 4, 2015 Beyond Sanctions and Kerfuffles, the Iran Deal Netanyahu Wants to Avoid ... Netanyahu believes that Iran should not enrich its uranium and instead should rely on imported uranium for any civilian nuclear program it maintains. The November 2013 Joint P... February 4, 2015 New Video Overshadows IS Obsession With Kobani, Possible Flaws ... Photos and video of Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive at the hands of his Islamic State captors had U.S. officials searching for words, trying to describe... February 4, 2015 Palestinians Look to Exiled Mohammad Dahlan for Abbas Successor ... At 53, Mr Dahlan is young by the standards of Fatah’s ageing leadership. He is said to have the backing of the UAE and Egypt — two of the Arab countries leading the fight a...

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