The UN’s toxic obsession with Israel lets the world’s worst regimes off scot-free
An absurd report claiming that Israel has committed genocide is the latest example
Ban Ki-moon
The Houthis have challenged the Rules-Based International System and must be defeated
In my first analysis and opinion piece on the so-called Axis of Resistance, I set the scene by describing Iran’s 45-year trajectory from the Khomeini revolution to its current challenge to...
Op-eds
To fight anti-Semitism, the UN must first define it
The United States “must deal with the insanity at the center of the Human Rights Council — persistent and egregious anti-Israel bias,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft declared last...
Op-eds
Fixing the United Nations
The United Nations was created in the wake of World War II by the major Allied nations that had prevailed – at an enormous cost in blood and treasure -- over the Axis powers. Its foun...
Op-eds
Iran’s Missile Launch is Test for New Administration
Iran reportedly fired two ballistic missiles this weekend, the first alleged ballist...
Policy Briefs
Iran’s Financial Rebranding Efforts and the FATF Plenary
The Plenary and Working Group of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – a global body for combatting money laundering and terror and proliferation finance – will meet from February...
Policy Briefs
Don’t Let Iran Off The Hook For Chemical/Biological Weapons
The Trump administration will need to be on its toes to enforce the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement—and stop the Islamic Republic’s developing chemical and biological weapons progra...
Op-eds
The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
Op-eds
The problem with peace processes
When peace-loving people sit down together in a spirit of compromise they can find ways to resolve their conflicts. Does it follow that negotiations with those who don’t care a fig about pe...
Op-eds
Washington Dismantles the Ballistic Missile Embargo
In January, the Obama administration reportedly signed a secret agreement wi...
Policy Briefs
Obama’s Iran experiment
A hypothetical question: Suppose the Islamic State wanted to buy some American airplanes, and promised not to use them to support terrorists. Would you be OK with that? I’m guessing not....
Op-eds
Bearing Witness To A Nuclear North Korea
It’s a long way from Paris to Pyongyang, but as the world ponders the jihadi attacks on France, let us not lose sight of the menace emanating on the other side of the globe from a nuclear-a...
Op-eds
An Unhappy United Nations Birthday
Did it escape your attention that last month was the 70th birthday of the United Nations? Did you miss the opportunity to celebrate by following Elyx on an “exciting 70-day (virtual) trip a...
Op-eds
The Death of R2P
Remember R2P? Not to be confused with R2-D2 (a robotic character in the Star Wars movies), “Responsibility to Protect” was an international “norm” proposed by UN...
Op-eds
The U.N. Handmaiden of Hamas
On Wednesday, as a truce held between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefed the U.N. General Assembly. "The senseles...
Op-eds
Bad Move to the U.N.
Having failed to produce a deal after six months of bargaining in Vienna, the Iran nuclear talks now appear headed for a venue even less auspicious for the U.S. and its allies: the United Nations...
Op-eds
Why Qatar and Turkey Can’t Solve the Crisis in Gaza
With Washington desperate for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, an...
Op-eds
Gaza and Turkish Politics
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan condemned Israeli military operations in Gaza last week, and called...
Policy Briefs
Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Street
Since the eruption of violence across Arab communities in Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank last week, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has endeavored to straddle a fine line between pr...
Policy Briefs
Those Hilarious Jokers in Tehran Obama Wants to Befriend
Who says the Iranian regime is run by dour old men with no sense of humor? Wrong! Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has just written a ...