Camp David

March 12, 2025 | Mariam Wahba |

Egypt’s Sisi: Camp David Is a Model for Lasting Peace

After months of threatening to discard its peace treaty with Israel, Egypt has shifted its tone dramatically. Speaking at the emergency Arab Summit on March 4, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi remarked...

February 27, 2025 | Toby Dershowitz, Will Erens

Al Jazeera platforms Hamas’s “resistance” at annual conference

On February 15, the Qatar-funded news organization Al Jazeera gave a platform to two Hamas officials at its 16th annual Al Jazeera Forum. The event, “From the War on Gaza to Change in Syria: Shifting...

February 25, 2025 | Craig Singleton |

Missed Milestones

Evaluating The Last Four Years in the EAP Region and Unseized Opportunities Under President Trump

September 4, 2024 | Clifford D. May

McMaster and commander

Thirteen months as President Trump’s national security advisor

December 1, 2023 | David Maxwell |

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.

November 21, 2023 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

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...

October 12, 2023 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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...

September 1, 2023 | John Hardie |

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...

May 10, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Israel’s 75th birthday

Despite endless war, the Jewish state survives and even thrives

February 28, 2023 | Tony Badran |

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...

May 4, 2022 | Shany Mor |

Andy Levin’s ‘Two-State Bill’ Won’t Support Middle East Peace

Levin’s bill, were it enacted, would never achieve its ostensible goal.

September 20, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Bizarre Positive Biden Spin on Afghanistan

No, the Taliban are not America’s partners

September 8, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Twenty 9/11 anniversaries

The sleeping giant nods off again

August 17, 2021 | Frank Luntz, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

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

May 18, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer, David May

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.

May 20, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Israel’s daunting decision

Calculating the benefits and risks of drawing permanent borders

February 2, 2020 | Tony Badran |

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

January 20, 2020 | David May |

War by Other Means

A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS

October 1, 2019 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

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...

September 11, 2019 | Bill Roggio |

Several districts change hands as fighting rages in northern Afghanistan

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