McMaster and commander
Thirteen months as President Trump’s national security advisor
Camp David
Revitalizing America’s North Korea Policy
Kurt Campbell has been nominated as the next Deputy Secretary of State. Here are five recommendations for his possible successor as Asia Czar.
Op-eds
There’s only one way forward after Gaza. Israelis must accept it.
Reflecting on the Gaza war and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict more broadly, former president Barack Obama offered this regret: “I look at this, and I think back, ‘What could I have done...
Op-eds
The Miscalculation of Hamas
Hamas came at dawn and murdered with abandon. It had the element of surprise. Israel was unprepared. This was unprecedented. Israel’s security barrier breached; Israeli communities and military...
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: September
Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They...
Policy Tracker
Israel’s 75th birthday
Despite endless war, the Jewish state survives and even thrives
Op-eds
Rob Malley visits the Gulf, with a bucket of old formaldehyde
A senior US delegation, led by Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley and other counterterrorism and defense officials, traveled to Saudi Arabia recently to participate in the US-Gulf Cooperation Council...
Op-eds
Andy Levin’s ‘Two-State Bill’ Won’t Support Middle East Peace
Levin’s bill, were it enacted, would never achieve its ostensible goal.
Op-eds
The Bizarre Positive Biden Spin on Afghanistan
No, the Taliban are not America’s partners
Op-eds
Twenty 9/11 anniversaries
The sleeping giant nods off again
Op-eds
The Afghan debacle will destroy the Biden presidency
Americans once supported military withdrawal, but they will punish a president who leads the US to defeat
Op-eds
Sheikh Jarrah is the latest ‘single point of failure’ fiction
This is certainly not the first time that the “single point of failure” narrative has been wielded to explain a campaign of organized Palestinian or Arab-Israeli violence.
Op-eds
Israel’s daunting decision
Calculating the benefits and risks of drawing permanent borders
Op-eds
Rock, Paper, Scissors in the Middle East
Trump’s is the latest play in a decadeslong game of trying to counter previous ‘peace process’ moves by each new American administration
Op-eds
The Israeli–Palestinian Struggle, Continued.
Whenever the Israeli–Palestinian question arises in Washington, an assumption inevitably precedes it: the United States has an important and unique role to play in advancing peace between these two...
Op-eds
Several districts change hands as fighting rages in northern Afghanistan
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The life, times and foreign policies of Jimmy Carter
One of his wisest advisors attempts to give them a new and improved look.
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Palestinians have mail
For years, smart and well-meaning “peace processors” have worked hard to find a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. They’ve never come close. Commentators keen on being perceived as...
Op-eds
Mahmoud Abbas and the Years of Terror
Mahmoud Abbas entered Yasser Arafat’s office in the Palestinian presidential complex, commonly referred to as the muqata‘a (compound), in the center of Rama...
Op-eds
The president should not tie his successor’s hands
You’re probably familiar with the old story about the inebriated guy looking for his wallet at night under a streetlight — not because that’s where he dropped it but because wha...