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November 17, 2024 | Mark Dubowitz, Eugene Kontorovich

Lame-duck Biden ramps up sanctions on Israelis — and eases up on terrorists

As he heads for the exit, President Biden is easing sanctions on Hamas and Hezbollah — while sanctioning Jews in Israel. Under pressure from Israel-bashing critics, including scores of congressional...

April 6, 2021 | Morgan Lorraine Viña, Simone Ledeen

Biden’s policy shift in Yemen courts environmental disaster

Excerpt A major disaster is unfolding in slow motion, with the international community seemingly incapable of taking any action other than public hand wringing. A crippled oil tanker, FSO Safer, has been...

February 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient

The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide

September 3, 2019 | |

FDD Names Board of Advisors to Help Guide Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation

(Washington, DC, September 3, 2019) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) today announced 21 experts who will serve as members of the Board of Advisors for its Center on Cyber and Technology...

June 22, 2011 | TCS Daily |

Beyond Farce

The following is not the outline of a rejected screenplay by an aspiring Hollywood writer trying to outdo 24. Nor is it product of a freshman political science student's imagination, concoct...

June 13, 2011 | National Review Online

Gaza “Blackout” and the Laws of War

Although, as the Jerusalem Post reports, the so-called "Gaza blackout" was instigated by the Hamas terrorists who run the enclave as a sort of cynical publicity stunt, it has drawn the u...

June 13, 2011 | American Thinker

Feeding the Hand that Bites You

Two years ago, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon led his country in a fateful decision to "disengage" from Gaza, uprooting 8,500 Jewish residents, many born in Gaza and some domiciled ther...

July 22, 2007 | Michael I. Krauss The American Thinker

Give War a Chance!

Two items in the batch of international news and commentary at the end of last week strike us as particularly noteworthy, justifying our recall in a new context of the title of P.J. O'Rourke...

June 24, 2007 | Michael I. Krauss The American Thinker

Hezbollah, Hamas, and Humanitarians

While most Middle East watchers know about the takeover of Gaza by Hamas and its transformation into the terrorist enclave of "Hamastan," readers of the mainstream press might be surprised to lea...

June 21, 2007 |

The End of War as We Know It?

I have been following the Hamas takeover of Gaza with a sense of what Yogi Berra, in reference to Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, described as "déjà vu all over again." Almo...

June 4, 2007 | |

Next Year in Jerusalem

Forty years ago this week, on the third day of the Six-Day War, Israel entered the Old City of Jerusalem. Returning to the Western Wall from which he and all other Jews had, in blatant violation...

February 20, 2007 | Michael I. Krauss The American Thinker

See Cynthia and Mohamad Play Tag Team

Last August, after the Lebanese/Hezbollah war on Israel ended, we observed the irony that one country sending troops to the new, purportedly more effective, United Nations Interim Force in Lebano...

February 7, 2007 | Michael I. Krauss TCS Daily |

As It Turns Out, Preemption Works

Until its last emperor, Haile Selassie, was overthrown in 1974, Ethiopia's constitution boasted that he descended "without interruption from the dynasty of Menelik I, son of the Queen of Eth...

December 26, 2006 | FrontPage Magazine

The Dark Fate of Christians Under Palestinian Rule

Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...

December 15, 2006 | TCS Daily |

Tis the Season in Darfur

As much of the Western world busies itself with merriment in preparation for the celebrations of Chanukah and Christmas, the light is fading rapidly in the scarred vastness of Darfur. In the late...

December 4, 2006 | TCS Daily

Franchising Jihad

In a forthcoming study for the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Israel's Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, senior researcher Ely Karmon raises the alarming prospect of Hezbollah affili...

November 27, 2006 | The American Thinker |

The UN’s Jew-Obsession

Every single day, hundreds of African tribesmen are killed in Darfur by militias acting with the blessing of Sudan's Arab Islamist government. Eac...

November 9, 2006 | TCS Daily

Speaker Pelosi’s Impending Intelligence Failure

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is in line to make history as the first female Speaker — and second in line of succession for the presidency — when the new Congress convenes in January....

November 8, 2006 | TCS Daily |

The Rainy Season’s Over; Killing Can Commence

The rainy season has just ended in northwestern Sudan—now killing can recommence in earnest. Two months ago, we warned that inaction in Darfur was tantamount to a "countdown to genocide" wi...

October 30, 2006 | TCS Daily

Right on Target

On October 23, after ten more Qassam missiles were fired from northern Gaza into Israel in forty-eight hours, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops entered the area in search of the launchers and t...