Jacques Chirac

Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon

Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004's United Nati...

Can The Lebanese Government Be Trusted?

As the armed conflict continues in the Middle East, many are finally starting to acknowledge that the connections between the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian patrons...

Selling Out Moderate Islam

Washington's misbegotten campaign to be loved in the Middle East.

Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri

Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes...

What Good Is NATO?

World War II was fought against totalitarianism of the Nazi, Fascist and Japanese Militarist varieties. After the war, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to defend the Free World...

Iran Calls for Israel to “Be Wiped Off the Map”

The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies – Briefing Iran's Call For Israel to “Be Wiped Off the Map” – Responses Jonathan L. Snow                                                                                                                                                                         ...

You Take the High Road

Whichever route Bush takes to Scotland, it's likely to be rough trip.

French Revolution; Why the Gallic Grassroots Just Said ‘Non!’

COGNAC, FRANCE - It seems that France, too, has “red states” and “blue states.” Paris and its posh suburbs are blue: They voted for the proposed European Union co...

The Road Back to Damascus

By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. There is no better time than the present for the U.S. to press its advantage in the Mideast; to further pressure Syrian president...

Million Lebanese Stage Massive Retort to Terrorists

Flags fluttering, horns honking, and fingers flashing V for victory, Lebanon's opposition converged on downtown Beirut yesterday in the biggest democratic protest in the history of the moder...

Blood Libel

Chirac Should Acknowledge that Israelis didn't Kill Mohammed al-Durra

Wrong Turn in Lebanon

By: Dr. Walid Phares. When the blasts rocked Beirut, massacring former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his companions, history was taking a new turn in Lebanon: In the hours aft...

The Father of Modern Terrorism; The True Legacy of Yasser Arafat

The true legacy of Yasser Arafat.

Coalition of the Bribed

Authored by Andrew Apostolou Wednesday's report by Charles Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector, is devastating not for the U.S.-led Coalition that liberated Iraq, but...

The Grandeur That Is Rome; Italian Courage in the War on Terrorism

Those who fear that America has no European allies should pay a visit to Rome. Actually, one should seize any excuse to go to Rome - to view the architecture and art, to sample the food...

Burning Bridges

A Democratic foreign policy is what I was looking for when I switched on the TV Monday to watch the opening lineup at the Democratic Convention. I sat through Jimmy Carter ("Brezhnev lied to me")...

All in the Family

"Let freedom reign," wrote President Bush as Iraq regained sovereignty Monday. "Today, the secretary-general welcomes the state of Iraq back into the family of independent and sovereign...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Kofi Annan’s Corrupt Enterprise

Authored by Editorial Board Is the clock ticking on Secretary General Kofi Annan's merry pranks at the United Nations? Could be. The rank corruption of the body's Iraq...

Did Saddam Bribe the U.N.?

The U.N. oil-for-food program was supposed to help the Iraqi people acquire the food and medicine they needed while U.N. sanctions against Iraq were in place, sanctions that could have been lifte...