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June 20, 2025 8 Things to Know About China’s Response to Israel-Iran Conflict Israel’s military campaign against Iran has exposed the chasm between China’s great power rhetoric and its ability to meaningfully shape events in the Middle East. To be sure, Beijing backs Tehran... June 19, 2025 5 Oppressive Iranian Institutions Israel has Targeted As Israel degrades the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military capabilities, the campaign has also targeted key pillars of repression in the country. Among them are senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps... June 19, 2025 Iranian and Iranian-Backed Attacks Against Americans (1979-Present) Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the clerical regime in Tehran and its proxies have committed a range of attacks against Americans. This memorandum provides select documentation of these assaults. While... June 18, 2025 10 Things to Know About Tehran’s Propaganda Network, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Israel struck the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on June 16, damaging a key regime media organ. IRIB is far from an independent news channel. Rather, it is a tool... June 14, 2025 The 9 Iranian Nuclear Scientists Israel Has Eliminated By Bridget Toomey and Andrea Stricker To stop Iran’s drive to build nuclear weapons, Israel eliminated nine top scientists and experts whose knowledge was critical to Tehran’s initiative. Israel... June 9, 2025 10 Things to Know About the Muslim Brotherhood The Muslim Brotherhood is a transnational Islamist movement dedicated to the remaking of society and government according to the dictates of Islamic law, or sharia. Founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna,... May 21, 2025 9 Myths About Iran’s Uranium Enrichment Program President Trump and his administration have demanded that Iran agree to the full, verifiable, and permanent dismantlement of its atomic weapons program — including the regime’s ability to produce enriched... May 20, 2025 5 Ways South Africa Undermines U.S. Interests — and What Must Change The United States must increase pressure on South Africa to reverse five of its harmful policies. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s arrival in Washington this week to meet with President Donald Trump offers... May 15, 2025 10 Reasons Why America Needs a Cyber Force 1. The next war the United States fights will begin in cyberspace. Cyberattacks will almost certainly be used by an adversary in the opening phases of a crisis or conflict to target the U.S. homeland... May 2, 2025 What the U.S. Can Learn from Israel’s ‘Qatargate’ Affair White House Correspondents’ season just wrapped in Washington. Last weekend, celebrities, journalists, and politicians descended on Washington to celebrate the free press. Traditionally, the weekend... May 1, 2025 Pro-Hamas Activists Tell Teachers to Break the Law and Strike on May Day Pro-Hamas activists are telling teachers to break the law. Labor for Palestine, a coalition of union groups, is calling on teachers to walk out on May Day. This is not a lone incident but rather part of... April 29, 2025 5 Wasteful and Harmful UN Organizations That Delegitimize Israel As the Trump administration undertakes a review of U.S. support for the United Nations, it should defund and seek the elimination of five UN organizations that exist primarily to delegitimize Israel. Toward... April 17, 2025 Time to Reform VOA and Its Iran Programming: Trim the Fat, Keep the Mission The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate funding for Voice of America (VOA) represents a missed opportunity to reform and enhance the outlet’s capacity to counter adversarial propaganda. April 11, 2025 What President Trump Must Demand to Eliminate Iran’s Nuclear Threat The United States and Iran are set to hold landmark talks on April 12, President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week, just weeks after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused the... April 11, 2025 Trump’s Defense Sales Executive Order is an Important First Step The Trump administration is moving quickly to reform foreign defense sales through an executive order issued on April 9. The order reiterates the value of capable allies to Americans and directs important reforms related to the prioritization of partners, adjustment of congressional reporting thresholds, and review of the foreign military sales-only (FMS-Only) list. Taken together, these make the executive order a well-crafted, laudable, but insufficient first step to address a security assistance system in urgent need of reform. April 9, 2025 10 Things to Know About Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula The Sinai Peninsula is a strategic land bridge between Africa and Asia. The Sinai Peninsula, which connects the continents of Africa and Asia, has a landmass of 23,000 square miles, approximately... March 27, 2025 Why U.S. Aid to Iran’s Civil Society Falls Short The road to Iran’s freedom is paved with well-intentioned U.S. grants — but intent alone has never toppled a dictatorship. The Trump administration’s broad pause on foreign assistance includes a... March 13, 2025 SOLARIUM TURNS FIVE This week marks the five-year anniversary of the release of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s original March 2020 report, a blueprint that has reshaped U.S. cybersecurity strategy and policymaking.... March 10, 2025 U.S. Aid to Ukraine Is More Sustainable Than Putin’s Invasion Some in Washington argue that U.S. security assistance to Ukraine is unsustainable and that the Russian invasion can continue indefinitely. With U.S. and Ukrainian officials meeting in Saudi Arabia on... February 27, 2025 Hospitals Suffer Because the Department of Health and Human Services Fails to Lead on Cybersecurity Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. has an urgent crisis to solve: the ransomware pandemic crippling American hospitals. The Biden administration spent years affirming the importance... February 24, 2025 10 Things to Know About Turkey’s Interventions and Influence in Syria Turkey intends to position itself as the most influential foreign actor in Syria. Following the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Turkey built close ties with jihadist militias fighting Bashar... February 12, 2025 The Trump Administration Acts to Arm Israel and Signals Desire to Reform U.S. Security Assistance The Trump administration formally notified Congress on Friday that it plans to sell Israel over $8 billion in weapons, advancing sales that the Biden administration slow-rolled for months. The Trump administration’s... February 12, 2025 5 Reasons Why South Africa Must Remain on FATF’s Financial Crime Watchlist The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed South Africa on its “grey list” in February 2023, identifying critical weaknesses in the country’s ability to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.... October 28, 2024 Israel Likely Eliminated Key Iranian Weaponization Site Israel likely destroyed an Iranian site that played a key role in the Islamic Republic’s past nuclear weapons program, known as the Amad Plan. The potential elimination of the facility sends a strong... October 15, 2024 Only the UN Could Present Qatar as a Champion of Human Rights The United Nations just re-elected a veteran human rights abuser to a seat on the Human Rights Council. That tends to happen every year, but there is special cause for concern when the abuser is Qatar,... October 8, 2024 Hacked to Death: The Urgent Need for Healthcare Cybersecurity Reform Imagine you are rushed to the hospital, fighting for your life, only to have your treatment delayed because the staff cannot find your records. The reason? Hackers have crippled the hospital’s electronic... October 7, 2024 PRC Lawfare Expands to U.S. Courts — Now Is Not the Time to Dismantle U.S. Tech The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is learning how to use American courts to undermine U.S. national security. Specifically, Beijing is working through the courts to block executive branch actions that... September 13, 2024 6 Things to Know About Samidoun, the ‘Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network’ Samidoun describes itself as an “international network of organizers and activists” that campaigns for the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons. The group sponsors demonstrations, protests,... September 11, 2024 Seeking Certainty in an Uncertain Middle East As Americans remember this week the victims of the September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda terror attacks on our country and Israelis mark more than 11 months since the Hamas terror attack, it is worth taking stock... September 6, 2024 As Authoritarians Rise Abroad, Who Should Teach Democracy in American K-12 Schools? Although the United States is a wonderfully diverse country with vast resources and a population of more than 330,000,000 people from virtually every race, religion, and background, the country can’t... September 5, 2024 10 Things Washington Should Do to Hold Hamas Accountable U.S. citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, was executed by Hamas in late August after being taken hostage from an Israeli music festival and held in Gaza for more than 300 days. In response, a bipartisan roster... August 23, 2024 Saudi Official Views of Hamas It is common these days in the Arab world to hear that Riyadh isn’t supporting the Palestinians enough, a comment on the noticeable shift in Saudi official views of Hamas since its October 7 invasion... July 24, 2024 South Africa Must Change Course on Hamas While Washington is primarily focused on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit and address to Congress this week, another side of the global conflagration around Israel’s war of self-defense... July 24, 2024 Why Hamas Deserves Argentina’s Terrorism Designation At 7:56 AM on October 7, 2023, Ronit Sultan, the daughter of Argentine immigrants, texted her daughter-in-law to “take care of yourself” as rockets from Gaza flew overhead... July 23, 2024 5 Things to Know About the Palestinian ‘Popular Resistance Committees’ The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) is a loose coalition of armed Palestinian terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank that oppose Israel’s right to exist and the leadership of... July 18, 2024 The Killers of the AMIA Still Walk Free On July 18, 1994, at 9:53 am, a Hezbollah suicide bomber, Ibrahim Berro, drove a car laden with explosives in front of the AMIA, the Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, and pressed the detonator, ripping... June 12, 2024 5 Things to Know About Chinese Drone Company DJI Chinese drone manufacturer Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Company Limited (known simply as DJI) controls over 70 percent of the global drone market, perfectly illustrating the fusion of China’s economic... April 29, 2024 The Out-of-Control Social Media App Spreading Antisemitism at Columbia Demonstrators have shouted “tear down the gates!” while circling Columbia University’s main entrance in recent days. “I am Hamas!” “Long live the intifada!” The chants carried beyond the... April 26, 2024 What the World Central Kitchen Strike Tells Us About Israel — And Its Enemies More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the Biden administration on April 16 criticizing Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and expressing concern about “civilian harm... April 16, 2024 What We Can Learn From Iran’s Attack on Israel Iran launched an unprecedented direct attack against Israel this weekend consisting of approximately 350 missiles and drones with a combined payload of around 60 tons of explosives, yet only a handful... April 9, 2024 Israel’s Arab Neighbors Undermine Their Own Interests by Backing Iran The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its proxy militias have Jordan in their crosshairs, calling for mass protests against the government and promising to arm a militia of 12,000 Jordanians.... March 22, 2024 Ukraine Needs More Drones. Here’s One Way Washington Can Help. Ukraine could double its annual production of drones if it had more funding, a Ukrainian official told The Guardian in an interview published on Wednesday. In addition to encouraging our European allies... March 13, 2024 Five Compelling Reasons for the Strategic Divestment of TikTok Amid escalating concerns over potential Chinese interference in the U.S. election, divesting TikTok from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, offers a balanced, technologically feasible solution that... March 12, 2024 5 Things to Know About ByteDance, TikTok’s Parent Company ... March 6, 2024 10 Things to Know About the Palestinian Authority Israel has long sought a partner for peace to establish a two-state solution — the proposed resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that predates the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state.... February 13, 2024 10 Things to Know About UNIFIL Despite a mandate to maintain international peace and security, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has repeatedly failed to secure the Israel-Lebanon border and support the Lebanese Armed... January 26, 2024 10 Things to Know About the Houthis The Houthis are an Iran-backed, Shiite Islamist movement that seized control of Yemen’s capital in 2014 and instigated civil war. Driven by an explicitly antisemitic and anti-American ethos, the Houthis... January 11, 2024 10 Things to Know About the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established in 1949 to serve Palestinian refugees displaced during Israel’s War of Independence. UNRWA continues to operate in the Gaza Strip, West... January 10, 2024 Hamas’s Top Terrorist Leadership The Hamas terrorist leaders who directed the brutal October 7 attack on Israel remain top targets of the Israeli defense and intelligence communities. Understanding the background of these individuals... December 19, 2023 10 Things to Know About Hamas and Qatar Qatar has enabled the terrorist organization Hamas politically and financially for decades. However, the tiny Gulf Arab state has successfully positioned itself as the lead negotiator in the Hamas-Israel...

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