Kofi Annan

October 17, 2023 | Orde Kittrie, Natalie Ecanow

International Law Accepts No Excuses for Murder, Hostage-Taking 

Several activist groups, including chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America, have attempted to justify the Hamas murder, torture, and kidnapping of civilians in Israel by invoking a supposed “right...

January 28, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Only America Can Resolve the Cyprus Question

Without a viable solution to the Cyprus dispute, Western security will remain in a perpetual state of fragility.

December 22, 2020 | David May, Haley Weinischke

To fight anti-Semitism, the UN must first define it

The United States “must deal with the insanity at the center of the Human Rights Council — persistent and egregious anti-Israel bias,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft declared last...

March 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia |

The real roadblock to better relations is Tehran

The Islamic Republic of Iran must take delight in commentators in the West who advance the regime’s public relations agenda free of charge. Here in Canada, one analyst claims that...

July 1, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Central Pillar Supporting the Iran Deal Has a Big Crack In It

There is a key flaw in the emerging nuclear deal with Iran that is likely to quickly turn this historic agreement into a monumental failure. The most important thing Iran gets from a dea...

October 15, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The Death of R2P

Remember R2P? Not to be confused with R2-D2 (a robotic character in the Star Wars movies), “Responsibility to Protect” was an international “norm” proposed by UN...

March 5, 2013 |

UN Oil-for-Food Program

Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the Committtee, I thank you for the opportunity to testify here today. Speaking as a journalist, I would like to tell you that when I fir...

March 4, 2013 | |

The UN’s Anti-Semitic Alliance

The Turkish prime minister’s recent slander about Zionism occurred at a UN organization event.

January 9, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer

A Nasty Neologism

The term Islamophobia treats political ideology as akin to race.

January 4, 2013 | Tony Badran |

Diplomatic Theater

If you’ve been following Syria news over the past week, you’d be forgiven for thinking that feverish, Moscow-centered diplomatic activity was on the cusp of producing an agreement for...

December 13, 2012 | John Hannah |

Obama’s Syria Disaster

Watching the nightmare in Syria unfold, you have to ask yourself: Could the Obama administration have made a worse hash out of the situation if it had tried? Short of an outright Iranian...

December 12, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

No U.S. Strategy in Syria

The U.S. refuses to arm rebel groups. Now, an al-Qaida affiliate has emerged as one of the strongest factions.

August 3, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

How Obama is Letting Iran Win in Syria

The U.N.–Arab League joint special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, resigned his post yesterday, singling out the U.N. Security...

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 28, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report |

Saving Syria from Kofi Annan

Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:...

June 5, 2012 | Victoria Coates Red State |

A Risk of Contagion: The Growing Threat from Syria’s WMD

Recent reports of al Qaida infiltration of the Syrian resistance have strengthened our national reluctance to intervene in the slow-motion train wreck that is the Syrian civil war. After all, we...

May 24, 2012 | Tony Badran |

The Failure to Admit Failure

A recent...

May 22, 2012 | |

How About Leading from the Front?

According to recent news reports, the Romney foreign policy team is trying to figure out what the presumptive Republican candidate thinks America’s role in the world should be. He’s b...

May 4, 2012 | |

Has America Given Up?

Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled the latest artful attempt at avoiding responsibility to prevent genocide. With his newly created "Atrocities Prevention Board," the president has b...

May 3, 2012 | Tony Badran |

Damascus via Moscow

Despite its admission that the UN-backed Kofi Annan plan in Syria was failing,...