The Broken Promise of the Panama Papers, Ten Years On
The scandal thrust financial secrecy into the spotlight. Why is dirty money still such a big problem?
David Cameron
UK Fails to Designate IRGC as Terror Group Despite Iranian Attack on Israel
The British government is resisting a campaign by key UK politicians to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization. UK Prime Minister...
Flash Briefs
How US states can promote Israeli-Palestinian peace
Co-written by Asaf Romirowsky The growing number of laws and resolutions approved by US states, designed to block anti-Israel boycotts, divestment and sanctions efforts have sen...
Op-eds
Bystanders to genocide
It’s surprising how time slips away: Five years ago next month, President Obama proclaimed a “responsibility to act” when American “interests and values are at stake.&rdqu...
Op-eds
Boys in the Brotherhood
Among Western leaders these days, truth-telling is hardly habitual. So I feel compelled to give credit where credit is due: to British Prime Minister David Cameron for speaking frankly about the...
Op-eds
Can Obama Spur a Reform Within Islam?
President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address in the wake of the San B...
Op-eds
How To Change The Game
With Royal Air Force Tornados and Typhoons finally taking to the Syrian skies alongside French Mirages and Rafales, and President Obama addressing the nation on America’s role in the...
Op-eds
A Backlash Builds Against Saudi Salafism
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have once again put Saudi Arabia's brand of Salafi Islam, known as Wahhabism, under the microscope. In both Europe and the United Sta...
Op-eds
The Sinai Crash is Sisi’s Nightmare
It’s still too early to definitively state the cause of the Russian airliner crash...
Policy Briefs
Analysis: Report Card on 50 Years of German-Israel Relations
Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cancellation of Thursday’s sixth joint cabinet consultation between Israel and Germany because of the domestic security situation comes at the end phase of...
Op-eds
Analysis: Iran Sanctions Relief Will Feed Europe’s Syrian Refugee Crisis
While Germany and Austria are in a celebratory mood about absorbing Syrian refugees, European politicians have ignored Iran’s role in producing the waves of desperate Syrians fleeing to Eur...
Op-eds
Radical Islam and the Culture War
What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in...
Op-eds
Putin’s Rules
Last week, two Russian long-range bombers skirted the southwest coast of England. British Typhoon warplanes scrambled from their base to “escort” the bombers away. Prime Minister Davi...
Op-eds
Qatar Needs Tough Love
In his closing remarks at the White House summit on countering violent extremism this past week, President Barack Obama ...
Op-eds
UK Blacklists Qatari for Terror Finance, Pledges Closer U.S. Coordination
Ten months after the U.S. Treasury sanctioned suspected terrorist financier Abdulrahman bin Omeir al-Nuaymi, th...
Policy Briefs
British Lessons
I imagine James Bond is relieved. After all, one can’t very well be “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” if one is no lon...
Op-eds
A Muslim Identity Crisis
The massive sexual abuse case in Rotherham, England, has revealed again how awkward and self-defeating the Western response often is to matters that touch on religious identity. Although the inde...
Op-eds
Why the West Needs to Open Its Eyes to Iran’s Intentions
Honorable members of this subcommittee, I am privileged to appear before you today to discuss the status of the Iran nuclear negotiations. I will discuss why it’s more urgent than ever for...
Legislative Testimonies
Why Washington Needs to Open Its Eyes to Iran’s Intentions
Barack Obama does not like to back his diplomacy with military force. He believes there should be a clear sequence of engagement: diplomacy, sanctions, more diplomacy, perhaps more sanctions...
Op-eds
The Turkey-China Alliance Against the U.S.
The Obama administration has invoked Turkey as a model Middle Eastern country because of its hybrid system of political Islam and democracy. It is worth recalling that President Obama said Turkis...