Lawfare Against Israeli Soldiers
Israeli tourist Yuval Vagdani had to escape for the second time. On October 7, 2023, he survived the Hamas massacre at the Nova music festival near Gaza. Then in the first week of January 2025, he escaped Brazil...
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
BRICS showcases non-Western world order emerging
The expansion of BRICS into countries that are close to the West shows how many states are hedging their bets on this non-western group of powerful economies.
Op-eds
Amid Tensions With Israel, Brazil Withdraws Ambassador
Brazil recalled its ambassador to Israel, the government announced in its official gazette on May 29. In February, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also known as Lula, compared Israel’s actions against Hamas to those of the Nazis, claiming that the only historical parallel for the current fighting was “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.” ...
Flash Briefs
Russia’s worrisome invite to Hamas, PIJ and its implications
Russia has invited Palestinian groups to Moscow, which could bring together Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and other terrorist groups
Op-eds
Hamas renews rocket fire, Israel responds as pause in fighting ends
Hamas renewed rocket fire on Israel just before 06:00 local time on Friday, December 1, ending a pause in fighting that had held for one week. The Israel Defense Forces said the Iron Dome air...
Op-eds
Beware of Falling BRICS
With the BRICS Summit coming to a close, it is unclear what has been accomplished.
Op-eds
America’s Power Competition Goes Awry in Lula’s Brazil
When the dust settles, the consequences of Lula’s approach will serve neither American interests nor Brazil’s.
Op-eds
Losing Latin America
The U.S. retreats while China’s Communist rulers advance
Op-eds
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: November
Policy Tracker
Taiwan 194
Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China
Memos
Palestine’s Plan for When Peace Talks Fail
Co-authored by Grant Rumley Despite the unshakable and quixotic optimism of John Kerry’s Middle East negotiating team, the prevailing prognosis in Jerusalem and Ramallah i...
Op-eds
Iran’s Latin America Strategy
Speaking in Washington at the annual dinner of the American Jewish Committee in May 2007, Argentina’s then-senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner publicly reiterated her unwavering commitme...
Op-eds
Fatah, Hamas, and the Statehood Gambit
On May 3, Hamas and Fatah, the two largest and most influential Palestinian factions, created a unity government. Following a brutal civil war in 2007 that left Hamas in control of the Gaza...
Op-eds
A Palestinian State Means War
With the U.S.-led peace process looking increasingly moribund, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has begun enlisting foreign leaders in a dangerous effort to recognize a Palestinian state witho...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Hollow Prize
It's time Congress pulled the plug on Washington's taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which has turned itself into a global joke. With Turkey's l...
Op-eds
Boxing Iran?
President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilatera...
Op-eds
What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’ s Foreign Minister?
Update (June 16th, 2010 10:20 am): A press assistant at the Wilson Center confirmed this morning that what I wrote below is correct. The ceremonial dinner, honoring Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet...
Op-eds
And Now, Ahmadinejad Goes to Istanbul
Yes, on Monday Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to touch down in Turkey. Seems like the Turkish and Iranian governments just can’t get enough of each other these days. This visi...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Return to Africa
In the end, neither the superabundant expressions of support voiced by donor nations for the ramshackle “Transitional Federal Government” (TFG) of Somalia nor that regime’s corr...
Op-eds
A Quisling Turkey
Beware. With stunts such as this week's bid to deflect further sanctions on Iran, Turkey's leaders like to boast that they are creating a new role for their nation as a rising regional...