It’s Come Undone
Since the parameters of the Iranian nuclear accord became apparent in 2014 until Donald Trump canceled the deal on May 8, Washington essentially divided into three camps: those who supported the...
John Kerry
The Nuclear Deal Makes America Complicit in Iranian Crimes
The fundamental question when discussing a nuclear deal with Tehran is this: Are you prepared to fight over it? If not, then any deal is a good deal. This willingness to go to the mat also affect...
Op-eds
The Iran Deal Is Strategically and Morally Absurd
It was surely Barack Obama’s profound aversion to the use of American military power that so enfeebled his nuclear diplomacy and made his atomic accord with Iran the worst arms-control agre...
Op-eds
What’s at stake in Syria
Syria is a far-away land about which we know little. But we do know this: Over the past seven years, more than a half million people have been slaughtered there, with an estimated 150 murder...
Op-eds
Assad’s Horror, and Those Who Enable It
Horrific images from the aftermath of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria are once again circulating online. The scene of this gassing is the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus. Both the...
Op-eds
Why Iran won’t rush to a bomb if Trump pulls out of the nuclear deal
With John Bo...
Op-eds
Europe Will Now Decide if the Iran Deal Survives
If you heard a series of loud booms on March 22, they probably came from the exploding heads of many in the American and European political elite, following the appointment of John Bolton as Whit...
Op-eds
Fox News at Night
FDD's Clifford May joins Fox News to discuss reports that John Kerry recommended Abbas resist President Trump's policies ...
Op-eds
Palestinians are taking a huge risk by ignoring Trump’s threat to cut off US aid
President Donald Trump ...
Op-eds
Europe’s Silence
It’s tempting to say that Europe’s leaders lack the courage of their convictions. But that would imply that they have convictions. The evidence suggests those days are gone....
Op-eds
Iran Spends $16 Billion Annually to Support Terrorists and Rogue Regimes
“Leave Gaza, leave Lebanon, my life for Iran,” chanted a crowd of pro...
Policy Briefs
On Iran, Trump Should Be Like Reagan
In just three days, President Donald Trump must once again decide what to do about the much-debated Iran nuclear deal. Most are framing his choice as a binary one: Kill it or keep it? Although th...
Op-eds
The Worst Thing for Iran’s Protesters? U.S. Silence
We are now six days into the Iran protests, and the questions that seized Washington during the 2009 pro-...
Op-eds
Where We Can Agree on Iran
How Americans of both political parties can come together to support the Iranian people.
Op-eds
Deceptive Deja Vu
In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...
Op-eds
Why Trump Moved Against the PLO
This week, the Trump administration threatened to clos...
Op-eds
The Doomed Palestinian Reconciliation Plan
Of the demands Palestinians often make of their leaders, reconciliation between their two largest political factions perennially tops the list. Fatah, which controls the Palestinian Authority (PA...
Op-eds
The Assad Regime’s Chemical Weapons Problem
Israeli warplanes struck a suspected chemic...
Policy Briefs
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
Trump and Tillerson Disagree Over Iran Nuclear Deal
The debate on verifying Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal rages on behind closed doors in the White House with Donald Trump reportedly eager to find the noncompliant with the dea...