What Qatar wants, Qatar gets
How a tiny but extraordinarily wealthy emirate buys influence
Belgium
‘Weak Minister’: Dutch Foreign Policy Chief Calls for Review of EU-Israel Trade Agreement
Veldkamp Critical of Israel’s Gaza Aid Plans: The Netherlands is pushing for a review of the European Union’s (EU’s) trade agreement with Israel, expressing frustration over...
Flash Briefs
A ‘Legal Process to Persecute Israel’: UN Court Holds Hearings on Israel’s Block on Aid Into Gaza
UNRWA Ban at Heart of Case: Hearings are ongoing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague over questions relating to Israel’s legal obligations concerning the...
Flash Briefs
Israel Warns of Threats to Israeli and Jewish Travelers Ahead of Passover
Increase in Attacks on Jews and Israelis Expected: Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) issued a travel advisory to Israelis on April 1, ahead of Passover when many Jews travel...
Flash Briefs
Why NATO Should Move Nuclear Weapons to Poland
Expanding the nuclear-sharing program to Warsaw would send a clear message to Putin: any attack on Poland would be a catastrophic mistake.
Op-eds
Qatari Cash May Be Coming Soon to a Town Near You
It’s time for Washington to drop the rose-tinted glasses and make clear that America is not up for sale
Op-eds
Blackout
International Energy Policies Threaten U.S. National Security
Monographs
From Afghanistan to America: the rising reach of the Islamic State Khorasan Province
Four years after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the threat posed by the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has expanded beyond the region, now endangering both American and European soil.
Op-eds
Who’s afraid of China? Palau inauguration calls bluff of ‘friends to all, enemies to none’
For all the regional talk of “Pacific family” and “friends to all enemies to none” who did – and who didn’t – show up for the Jan. 16 inauguration of Palau President Surangel S. Whipps Jr....
Op-eds
Deconstructing the Inauguration: No, not that one
We have a country that is geopolitically sophisticated, with close ties to the U.S., Japan and Taiwan, and is in a highly strategic location. So who showed up to Palau’s party, and who didn’t?
Op-eds
Lawfare Against Israeli Soldiers
Israeli tourist Yuval Vagdani had to escape for the second time. On October 7, 2023, he survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival near Gaza. Then in the first week of January 2025, he escaped Brazil...
Op-eds
China Retaliates Against U.S. Semiconductor Restrictions by Banning Critical Mineral Exports
In the latest sign of its growing efforts to cut off American access to crucial inputs for advanced technologies, China introduced new export controls on several critical minerals used in both civilian...
Policy Briefs
‘Direct Ties to Senior Officials’: German Police Charge Members of Suspected Hamas Cell
Four Hamas Members Charged in Germany: German prosecutors announced charges against four men on November 26 suspected of being operatives of the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group and plotting terrorist attacks on European soil. ...
Flash Briefs
Despite Record of High-Profile Bribery, Qatar to Host Upcoming Anti-Corruption Conference
Qatar, the Gulf emirate tangled up in several high-profile corruption cases, is hosting an international anti-corruption conference from November 26-27. Representatives from more than 50 governments and...
Policy Briefs
European Prosecutors Launch Probe into Allegations that Senior EU Official Accepted Bribes From Qatar
European Commission advisor Henrik Hololei is the latest Western official facing legal consequences for allegedly accepting bribes from Qatar. On November 1, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)...
Policy Briefs
New Reports Show Growing Hamas Network in Europe
A network of groups affiliated with the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas is growing across Europe, according to a series of new reports that the European Leadership Network (ELNET)...
Flash Briefs
One Day in October
A year after Hamas invaded Israel, anti-Zionists bay for more massacres
Op-eds
Dutch Parliament Votes to Designate PFLP Front Samidoun as a Terrorist Group
The Dutch parliament voted overwhelmingly on October 10 to call for Samidoun, a Canada-based group believed to be a front for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),...
Flash Briefs
UNIFIL Denies Israel Threatened Irish Peacekeepers Despite Irish President’s Claim
A spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on October 7 refuted claims that Israel threatened Irish peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. On October 4, the...
Flash Briefs
Iran’s Assassination Plots Against Jews Persist Despite the West’s Leniency on Regime
The French police recently charged a French-Algerian dual citizen and his partner for allegedly conspiring to assassinate Israelis and Jews in Paris, Munich, and Berlin — all at the behest...