Jeffrey Goldberg

May 10, 2018 | Jonathan Schanzer, Varsha Koduvayur

The delicate balance of the US-Saudi relationship

Since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s rise to power, major reforms have swept the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. But FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer and Varsha Koduvayur argue in The Hill...

June 16, 2016 | John Hannah |

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Erdogan?

Houston, we have a problem. A serious problem. Slowly, but inexorably, Turkey is headed off a cliff. The signposts ahead are bleak indeed. Despotism. Terrorism. Civil war. Just over the horizon,...

May 17, 2016 | John Hannah |

For Middle East Peace, Look to Israel’s Arab Partners

Speculation is rife that President Barack Obama will make one final stab at putting his mark on the Middle East peace process before he leaves office. One theory has...

May 13, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Done Deal?

All administrations are short-sighted. Even the brightest, most reflective people can develop acute tunnel vision when they join the paper-pushing, crisis-a-minute senior ranks of the National Se...

April 14, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Can America change course?

As you watch the circus that is the 2016 presidential campaign, which candidate strikes you as having a coherent vision of national security for the post-Obama era? Who has told you what he (or s...

April 6, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

Obama’s dollar deal

President Obama’s critics charge that he’s never developed a strategy to defeat terrorism, the weapon of choice for those waging what they call a global jihad. The Atlantic’s Je...

September 18, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Our Iranian Interlocutor

Antisemitism has never been an easy subject for America’s foreign-policy establishment. Read through State Department telegrams and Central Intelligence Agency operational and intelligence...

May 29, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Transformational Diplomacy

Many supporters of an Iranian nuclear agreement believe that a deal could help to moderate, even democratize, Iranian society. Barack Obama’s constant allusions to the transformative potent...

May 13, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

The Fine Line Between Free Speech and Provocation

Rights are like muscles. If not exercised, they atrophy. Freedom of speech, a right guaranteed by the First Amendment, is the most fundamental of rights. Without it, how do you even defend your o...

November 28, 2014 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Emanuele Ottolenghi

Why The US Shouldn’t Be So Afraid Of The Nuclear Negotiations With Iran Collapsing

A year after signing an interim agreement with Iran, the US administration has discovered the hard way that a comprehensive nuclear accord remains elusive. President Obama thought the in...

November 6, 2014 | Tony Badran |

‘Chickens—gate’ Is All About Obama Trying To Silence Israel

In remarks to journalist Jeffrey Goldberg last week, anonymous senior Obama administration officials ...

October 20, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Non-Islamic Anti-Semitism in Europe

BERLIN — The wave of modern anti-Semitism across Europe in July and August revealed a dangerous amalgamation of left-wing, Islamic-animated, and right-wing extremist Jew-hatred. Ma...

August 19, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Gen. Flynn’s Warning

Two recent interviews have been the topic of lively debate within the so-called foreign policy community.  First, President Obama told ...

August 12, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

America Needs an ‘Overarching Strategy’

Here’s the dilemma: How do we stop the Islamic State without strengthening the Islamic Republic?  The Islamic State, a growing Sunni jihadist militia, now controls large swath...

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’...

January 9, 2014 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

How A Weak Iran Deal Makes Us All Less Safe and War More Likely

The debate over whether Israel would launch an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities to blunt Tehran’s nuclear ambitions has always loomed large in the mind of Western policymakers...

December 12, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The Disinformation Age

Walter Cronkite, the great CBS anchorman from 1962 to 1981, was called “the most trusted man in America” — and polling supported that claim. He’d conclude his CBS Even...

August 29, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Qatar Journalism

Al Jazeera America launched last week. The new television station features such broadcast luminaries as Soledad O’Brien, Joie Chen, Sheila MacVicar, John Seigentha...

August 26, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Erdogan Denounces US for Criticizing Claim that Israel was Behind Morsi’s Ousting

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan chastised Washington for having denounced his claim, made last Tuesday, that ...

July 11, 2013 | Clifford D. May

Murder on the Democracy Express

Who killed Egyptian democracy? Elite foreign-policy analysts have been providing strikingly divergent answers. Egypt’s military is, of course, the prime s...