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April 16, 2024 | |

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...

August 8, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

February 17, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

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...

December 30, 2015 | Clifford D. May The Washington Times

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...

December 21, 2015 | John Hannah

Can Obama Spur a Reform Within Islam?

President Barack Obama’s Oval Office address in the wake of the San B...

December 21, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

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...

December 14, 2015 |

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...

November 6, 2015 | |

The Sinai Crash is Sisi’s Nightmare

It’s still too early to definitively state the cause of the Russian airliner crash...

October 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

September 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

July 23, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

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...

February 25, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

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...

February 24, 2015 |

Qatar Needs Tough Love

In his closing remarks at the White House summit on countering violent extremism this past week, President Barack Obama ...

October 21, 2014 | FDD Policy Brief

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...

September 23, 2014 | Clifford D. May

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...

September 5, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

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...

May 13, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz

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...

April 13, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz |

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...

October 16, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

September 6, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

The Muddle East

If Congress refuses to support American military action against the Assad regime in Syria, and President Barack Obama declines to strike or strikes meekly, will American power—that marriage...