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July 19, 2011
Do We Have An Iran Policy?
I spoke to Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies yesterday about the state of the administration’s Iran policy. He was blunt: I&rsquo...
July 18, 2011
The Secret War in Somalia
Writing in the Nation this week, Jeremy Scahill revealed that the CIA is running "a counterterrorism trai...
July 15, 2011
Middle East Diplomacy Adrift
Although the General Assembly action may not be able to grant the Palestinians membership in the U.N., Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies cautions that serious consequ...
July 15, 2011
Austrian FM Faces Criticism for Visit of Iran Minister
BERLIN - Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger's decision to meet with sanctioned Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi on Tuesday triggered criticism from the Au...
July 15, 2011
Egypt Might Postpone Elections Until November
“This will definitely come at the expense of the Brotherhood. This has been the wish of the liberal democrats in Egypt since the first day after the fall of Mubarak,” said Jonathan Sc...
July 15, 2011
It’s a Fact: U.S.-Israel Relations at Low Ebb
But let’s see where we are today. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mails me while we await the results of the Quartet meeting today: “The Quartet, afte...
July 15, 2011
Syria’s Opposition Boycotts Government Talks
“It’s the regime talking to itself, essentially,” said Tony Badran, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “They reached out to certain veteran opposition...
July 13, 2011
The Panetta Doctrine: Declare Victory, Don’t Go Home
A forthcoming book from Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism analyst with the conservative Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, contends al-Qaida’s primary strategy against the U.S. i...
July 5, 2011
Analysis: Why is the Bundestag Courting Iran?
BERLIN – German-Israeli relations were strained last week because a delegation of Israeli lawmakers headed by MK Shaul Mofaz discovered during their visit to Berlin that the German...
June 28, 2011
Dutch MP Calls to Slash Funding of Anti-Israel NGOs
BERLIN – A panel in the Dutch parliament earlier this month titled “To discuss the activity of NGOs in Israel and Palestine” has generated a heated debate among lawmakers and th...
June 28, 2011
Tunisia’s Popular Revolution Far From Settled
The Jasmine Revolution is a work in progress, to say the least. Khairi Abaza of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies put it this way: "The regime is trying to make a cosmetic change to stay...
June 21, 2011
Syrian Subterfuge
“The argument for keeping Imad Mustafa in Washington, that we needed someone to send tough messages to, was never convincing,” says Tony Badran, research fellow at the Foundation for...
June 21, 2011
Quiet Cheers For a Delay in Egyptian Elections
Khairi Abaza of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies echoes this sentiment. Having recently been in the region, he tells me, “The country is going through a debate that polarized the E...
June 20, 2011
Canadian Minister Urges UN to Drop Durban III Parley
In a series of interviews with The Jerusalem Post at last week’s Conservative Party convention in Ottawa, leading politicians from the newly reelected Conservative government discussed supp...
June 17, 2011
Leverage and Legitimacy in Lebanon and Syria
However, as Tony Badran writes in Foreign Policy, “The evolution of the Syrian uprising has presented Washington with a unique opportunity to squeeze Assad. The United States has leverage;...
June 16, 2011
The Obama-Fatah Tag Team
Looking through a strictly foreign policy lens, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies says Obama’s current stance on Israel is actually part of a trend evident sinc...
June 16, 2011
Jihadi Forum Watchers Beat Wires to Zawahri Story
Here's how it all went down. At around 2 am EST, Aaron Zelin, who runs the website Jihadology, tweeted that al-Qaeda's General Command had announced its new leader, linking to a stateme...
June 14, 2011
Hamas Rules Out PM Job for Salam Fayyad
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) said in an e-mail to me last night, “This is predictable, of course. Fayyad was never acceptable to Hamas. This, among o...
June 14, 2011
Will State Dept. Nominee Get Through the Senate?
Journalist Claudia Rossett, who covered foreign policy at the time, tells me, “Among panderers to the North Korean regime, she earned herself a place in the group portrait that used to hang...
June 14, 2011
The ‘Peace Process’ Delusion: Have Another Meeting!
He proclaims, “Mr Obama should announce during the summer that he is inviting them to resume the negotiations on the basis of these terms of reference with a timeline for an agreement by th...
June 14, 2011
Document: Syria Orchestrated Border Battles with Israel
Tony Badran, a Syria specialist for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said he “didn’t need the document” to know that the Syrian government was behind the clashes....
June 10, 2011
Afghanistan Nation Building May Fail: Senate Report
On April 25, Taliban completed a nearly 400-meter tunnel into the city’s main prison and used it to free about 500 fellow guerrillas in what officials said was an inside job. The operation...
June 8, 2011
Sectarian Violence in Syria?
“Early on in the uprising the regime dispatched Mustafa Talas to negotiate with the locals in Rastan,” says Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies...
June 7, 2011
Clinton: French Should Forget About Hosting Peace Confab
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies agrees that this is a “sad” statement on the decline of U.S. influence in the region. He says, “We are arguing wit...
June 1, 2011
The Palestinians’ U.N. Gambit
“So far,” Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told me, “Obama’s not winning the day.” Britain appears adamant about supporting the Palesti...
June 1, 2011
The Dark Places of the Mideast, or Why There is Little We Can Do About Syria
There could not have been a more appropriate time for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) to host its event "Unrest in Syria: How Will the U.S. Respond?" than the morning of President...
May 23, 2011
‘Die Welt’: Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela
BERLIN – The Iranian government is moving forward with the construction of rocket launch bases in Venezuela, the German daily Die Welt wrote in its Thursday edition. Venezuelan Pre...
May 19, 2011
Obama’s Middle East Gambit Abandoned?
Obama nevertheless will face skepticism on the right, aside from the cost. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies expressed concern that we are just going to be shoveling...
May 13, 2011
Iran ‘Increasingly Cut Off’ From Financial Markets: UN Report
Financial sanctions are impeding Iran's purchase of materials for its nuclear and missile programs, a United Nations report said, compelling the government in Tehran to try to buy foreign banks and...
May 11, 2011
Iran Tells EU Next Atom Talks Must Be Without Pressure
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's nuclear negotiator has said the next talks with world powers must be held without pressure, which analysts said indicated Tehran would stick to its refusal to address its...
May 11, 2011
US Recognizes India’s Need for Iranian Oil -Official
WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - The United States recognizes that India will keep buying oil from Iran but is not actively suggesting ways to pay for it without violating international sanctions on...
May 10, 2011
Iran Doing Final Pre-Start Tests at Nuclear Plant
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran is conducting final tests at its first nuclear power plant and it is expected to start generating electricity in the next two months, Iranian media said on Monday. Me...
May 10, 2011
Iran to Sign Gas Deal with Syria, Iraq -Mehr
TEHRAN May 10 (Reuters) - Iran will soon sign a contract with political allies Syria and Iraq to export its natural gas to the Mediterranean region, a senior energy official was quoted as saying by...
May 9, 2011
Exclusive: How U.S. Trying to Wean China Off Iranian Oil
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The United States collaborated with Saudi Arabia to increase crude oil supplies to China at the expense of Iran, U.S. diplomatic cables show. The move was designed to hurt Iran...
May 9, 2011
Iran Bases Budget on Oil Around $81.50 Per Barrel
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is basing the oil price for its 2011/12 budget at around $81.50 per barrel and expects the price of oil to pick up again during the start of the summer season, Iran's OPEC go...
May 5, 2011
Iran Gasoline Imports at Nearly 50,000 bpd-Sources
DUBAI, May 5 (Reuters) - Iran imported nearly 50,000 barrels per day (bpd) of gasoline in March and in April, industry sources told Reuters, much of it from Asia, as the Islamic Republic kept up it...
May 5, 2011
More Economic Oower for Iran’s Rev. Guards
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, May 5 (UPI) -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has widened its ever-expanding economic power with a no-tender contract from the Oil Ministry to develop two bi...
May 4, 2011
Daewoo Takeover by Iranian Firm in Doubt
The agreed US$513 million takeover of South Korea's Daewoo Electronics by Iran's Entekhab Industrial Group is at the risk of collapse as the buyer continues to fail to meet extended deadline to fil...
April 11, 2011
Do As The Israelis Do
Last Thursday, Israel’s Iron Dome short-range missile defense system intercepted its first real target, which Palestinian terrorists had fired toward Ashkelon and Beersheba. Short-...
March 16, 2011
47% of Germans Think Israel Exterminating Palestinians’
A think-tank affiliated with Germany’s Social Democratic Party issued a new report last week that revealed high levels of anti-Semitism in Germany, Poland and Hungary, as well as varying ma...
March 10, 2011
The Shadow of the Iraq War Isn’t as Long as Applebaum Claims
Co-Authored with Robert Kagan Our friend Anne Applebaum makes a bizarre assertion in her latest blog post. She asks rhetorically, "Why do Egyptian democrats fear they will be st...
March 3, 2011
‘Human Rights Watch Should Have Been Keeping Tabs on Libya’
Fast-moving events in Libya have catapulted the scandal-plagued Middle East and North African Division (MENA) of Human Rights Watch into a new controversy for its failure over the years to dilige...
March 2, 2011
Fox’s Favorite Muslim Radical
Whether or not the demonstration actually happens Thursday, the Choudary phenomenon is at least as much about the laziness -- and, arguably, irresponsbility -- of the media as it is about Islam. Says...
March 1, 2011
What are We Doing with Those Ships Moving Toward Libya?
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies told me via e-mail last night: We've seen marked changes in the administration's approa...
February 13, 2011
The End of the Erekat Era
Palestinian Authority envoy Saeb Erekat excoriated Al-Jazeera late last month for publishing leaked documents relating to his peace negotiations with Israel, claiming its reporting had put his li...
February 1, 2011
Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther, and the Muslim Brotherhood
Like Reihan and Alex Massie, I’ve been curious to know what Reuel Marc Gerecht — former CIA officer, Islam expert, and robust supporter of Arab democracy — thinks about th...
November 19, 2010
EU Iran Sanctions Don’t Prohibit Hamburg Bank
The German government last week denied that German authorities plan to pull the plug on the Hamburg-based Iranian EIH bank (Europaeisch- Iranische Handelsbank). Speaking during an Israel...
November 17, 2010
UN Mulling Durban III Event for Next Year
A United Nations committee met Tuesday in New York to discuss a 2011 commemoration of the first UN anti-racism conference held nine years ago in Durban, South Africa, that turned out to be an Isr...
November 14, 2010
Austrian Intel Agency Engulfed in Neo-Nazi Scandal
Austria’s domestic intelligence agency, Verfassungsschutz, which is responsible for combating terrorism and neo-Nazi extremism, was plagued by disclosures last week in an APA news report of...
November 11, 2010
German Mayor Nixes ‘One-Sided’ Nakba Exhibit
The mayor of Freiburg, Dieter Salomon, pulled the plug on a Palestinian “Nakba” exhibit, which was slated to open on Friday in the local library, because “from the perspective o...
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