Elliott Abrams

May 26, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Why Iran’s Failure to Protect Religious Minorities Doesn’t Bode Well For Nuclear Deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s tenure has been marked by intensified persecution and incarceration of Baha’is, Jews, Christians and Sunni Muslims, according to a new report from t...

January 9, 2014 | Mark Dubowitz |

Conservatives Push Congress On Iran

As Congress contemplates passing new Iran sanctions over the objections of t...

December 6, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

We Really Need to Talk About Corruption

If peace were suddenly to break out in the Middle East, John Kerry would undoubtedly assure his place in the Secretary of State Hall of Fame. Defiantly challenging a chorus of naysayers at home a...

June 5, 2013 | Tony Badran

Washington’s Syria Policy

Madame Chairwoman, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Committee. On behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, thank you for inviting me to testify at toda...

April 1, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi Standpoint |

Iran’s Time Bomb

When US Vice-President Joe Biden finally got to comment on Iran in his recent speech at the policy conference of the American Israel&nbsp...

February 4, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

‘Failure to Blacklist Hezbollah Undermines Security’

The Iranian regime’s genocidal threats toward Israel and the European Union’s failure to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization shaped many of the panel discussions at a one-day c...

February 4, 2013 | |

Unlikely Peacemakers

Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.

January 17, 2013 | Lee Smith Tablet |

A Far-Right Israeli Electorate?

Contrary to conventional wisdom, Israelis haven’t become radicals. They’ve just abandoned a delusion.

December 5, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Have Obama and Bibi Made Up?

If the past few weeks are any guide, it looks like the open feud between Jerusalem and Washington is over.

October 4, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

America’s Future in the Mideast

Thomas Friedman, Elliott Abrams, Walter Russell Mead, and Aaron David Miller advise the next president.

August 20, 2012 | |

Assad’s Ally Arrested

In Beirut last week, former Lebanese MP and cabinet member Michel Sa...

August 20, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Tunisia Honors Convicted Murderer Samir Kuntar

The city of Bizerte in Tunisia last week honored convicted murderer Samir Kuntar, who carried out a brutal 1979 attack in Nahariya that killed Israeli policeman Eliyahu Shahar, and Danny Haran an...

July 30, 2012 |

Some Questionable State Department Actions

Prepared by staff at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies 1) Global Counterterrorism Conference Without Israel The Global Counterterrorism Forum w...

July 23, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action to Establish Safe Zones in Syria

Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of sixty-two foreign policy experts and former U.S. government officials signed an open letter today urging President Obama to adopt a strategy that will...

June 25, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer

A New Egypt, But Is It An Improvement?

The Post reports: “Egypt’s electoral...

June 22, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Congress Tries to Lead on Iran; Obama Clings to Failed Diplomacy

The Obama administration won’t take no for an answer. The Iran talks yielded no progress again this week, and yet the Obama administration...

April 25, 2012 | |

The Whole World Is Watching

Yesterday, the White House’s Atrocities Prevention Board held its first meeting. Chaired by NSC staffer Samantha Power, author of...

April 16, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Europeans Play Checkers While the Iranians Play Chess

In Istanbul on Saturday, the first new talks opened since January, 2011 between the six major global powers and the Islamic Republic over its illicit nuclear weapons program. Catherine Ashton, th...

April 4, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Who Leaked Israeli Iran Plan?

Is the United States leaking information in order to discourage an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities? That’s what some experts are saying in the wake of a...

March 29, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

Europe’s Bishops Denounce Anti-Christian Mufti

A group of European Catholic Bishops breathed fresh air into countering the Saudi Grand Mufti’s c...