Ehud Barak

March 6, 2024 | |

10 Things to Know About the Palestinian Authority

Israel has long sought a partner for peace to establish a two-state solution — the proposed resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that predates the 1948 establishment of the Jewish state....

January 14, 2024 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Israel’s Motion Offense

REVIEW: ‘The Art of Military Innovation: Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces’ by Edward N. Luttwak and Eitan Shamir

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...

July 27, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

American Military Aid to Israel Serves Both Countries Well

A response to a dangerous proposal

June 8, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

What to Expect From Erdogan’s Third Term

Erdogan has two priorities: to chart a more assertive presence for Turkey and to leverage Ankara’s position inside Western institutions to make that happen.

February 20, 2023 | Shany Mor |

The next Intifada is about to begin

Israel's luck will soon run out

July 28, 2022 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Ray Takeyh

Tehran, the Day After

What might happen in Iran if America or Israel bombed the nuclear sites?

April 8, 2021 | Jacob Nagel, Shachar Shohat

Iron Dome developers set the record straight on its evolution

Marking 10 years since Iron Dome’s first operational interception, leading figures in developing the missile defense system set the record straight on its evolution

July 14, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

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...

December 14, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

World’s first BDS account closure, says German bank

The Bank fur Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) announced on Monday that it has shut down the account of a German group because it advocates a boycott against the Jewish state, fails to m...

December 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Analysis: Can the EU breathe a deep sigh of relief?

The defeat of the far-right politician Norbert Hofer in Austria’s presidential election on Sunday conjures up the writings of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830- 1916), who quipped about her...

November 28, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: German bank pulls plug on anti-Israel BDS bank account

The Bank fur Sozialwirtschaft (Bank for Social Economy) has closed the account of a German group that promotes the ...

December 28, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Spanish Court: Arrest Warrants Not Enforceable for Netanyahu, Liberman, Others

Spain’s National Court overruled a lower court’s decision calling for the authorities to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, and addit...

June 16, 2015 | |

The Death and Life of the Two-State Solution

On March 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won reelection, thanks in part to a desperate last-minute pledge to his right-wing base that the Palestinians would never get a state so lon...

April 9, 2015 | R. James Woolsey

The Flexible-Fuel Solution

Co-authored by Anne Korin  Negotiators in Geneva appear to be sleepwalking into a Sunni–Shia nuclear arms race, so a bad neighborhood — as former Israeli prime...

March 13, 2015 | |

Forget the Knesset. I’ll See You at The Hague.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds no illusions regarding next week’s general election in Israel. He knows that in an election cycle preoccupied wi...

March 7, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

A Baleful Peace Process

To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...

November 18, 2013 | Tony Badran |

The Secret History of Hezbollah

Thirty years ago last month, Hezbollah blew up the barracks of the U.S Marines and French paratroopers stationed at the Beirut airport, killing 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 Frenchmen. It wasn&rsquo...

November 11, 2013 | FDD Policy Brief |

One-Year After ‘Pillar of Defense,’ Hamas is on its Heels

By David Barnett One year ago Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Pillar of Defense (PoD) in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The largely aerial assault began...

November 1, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Is Turkey Abetting Iran?

David Ignatius of the Washington Post...