After COP29, Israel and the Region Can Reaffirm the Abraham Accords Vision
Cooperation on climate change is both an environmental necessity and a proven means of building peace with Israel’s Arab neighbors.
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Presumed Hezbollah Rocket Injures Several UN Peacekeepers
Several members of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, were injured in a presumed Hezbollah rocket attack on October 29. Following the attack, UNIFIL released...
Flash Briefs
Israel Shouldn’t Suffer from the UN’s Failure in Lebanon
Had UNIFIL carried out its mandate, many, if not most, of Israeli operations in Lebanon would not be necessary.
Op-eds
Treasury Targets Hezbollah Financiers, Syrian Narcotraffickers with Fresh Sanctions
The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday against a Hezbollah financing network and three individuals who generate revenue for Hezbollah by trafficking illicit narcotics. As hostilities escalate...
Policy Briefs
New Reports Show Growing Hamas Network in Europe
A network of groups affiliated with the Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas is growing across Europe, according to a series of new reports that the European Leadership Network (ELNET)...
Flash Briefs
Iran Is Using Foreign Islamic Centers to Spread Terror and Hatred; the World Must Close Them
Last month, Germany announced that it would deport Mohammed Mofatteh, the former director of Hamburg’s Shi’a Islamic Center, which local authorities had ordered shut down five weeks earlier for propagating extremism, and for its financial links to Hezbollah. ...
Op-eds
The Nazification of anti-Zionism
It’s designed to make audiences, aided by the ubiquitousness of social media, despise all Jews.
Op-eds
G7 Ambassadors Skip Nagasaki Memorial Over Israel Snub
The U.S., UK, German, and Italian ambassadors to Japan will skip Nagasaki’s annual August 9 commemoration of the 1945 atomic bombing due to the city’s exclusion of Israel from...
Flash Briefs
Russia Reportedly Delivers Air Defense, Radar Equipment to Iran
Latest Developments Citing two unnamed Iranian officials, The New York Times reported on August 6 that Russia has started to deliver radars and air defense equipment to Iran ahead of a possible war...
Flash Briefs
Blinken Warns of Imminent Attack on Israel
Latest Developments U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on August 4 that Iran and its Lebanese terrorist proxy Hezbollah could attack Israel within 24-48 hours, Axios reported. Blinken was speaking...
Flash Briefs
Only American leadership can rally NATO to fight the new axis of authoritarian chaos
NATO leaders on Tuesday arrived in Washington to mark the 75th anniversary of the historic alliance that helped defeat the Soviet Union and secure an American-led century. But diplomatic toasts...
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: July
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...
Policy Tracker
Countering CCP’s narrative warfare with the Digital Lennon Wall
‘CCP must lie in order to cover up the terrible things that they’re doing in China, in Hong Kong, and around the world. To do this, they use narrative warfare to control what people see as the truth.’
Op-eds
Iran Expands Uranium-Enrichment Capacity
Iran has installed new uranium-enriching centrifuges at its nuclear facility in Fordow and plans to install more of them at both the Fordow and Natanz enrichment plants, the International...
Flash Briefs
Israel Rebuffs French Role in Lebanon
Israel rebuffed a French proposal on June 14 to revive U.S.-backed efforts to dampen spiraling tensions with Hezbollah. A surge in rocket, guided-missile, and loitering-munition...
Flash Briefs
Iran’s FM warns Israel against attack on Lebanon amid Hezbollah’s attacks
Meanwhile Iran continued to support attacks on Israel in the region. The pro-Iran Al-Mayadeen media noted that Palestinian terrorists in Jenin had fought with the IDF.
Op-eds
Islamic State operatives arrested after illegally crossing the US border
On June 11, eight Tajik nationals with ties to the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP), the terrorist group’s branch in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia, were arrested in New York,...
Op-eds
ISKP’s transnational reemergence
By leveraging its stronghold in Afghanistan, in conjunction with its networks in Central and South Asia, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is reemerging as a transnational actor with the capacity...
Op-eds
Will France abandon its opposition to unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state?
If it does, then Israel will be more reliant on Germany, Italy, Greece and the Eastern European states to fight its corner within the European Union, its largest trading partner.
Op-eds
An Aggressive ICC Puts U.S. Troops in Danger
If the International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Israelis, Americans would likely follow.