Mahmoud al-Zahar

October 17, 2024 | Joe Truzman, Bill Roggio

Israeli troops kill wanted Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas, while battling fighters on the streets in Gaza on October 16. Israel sought Sinwar for orchestrating the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led...

February 16, 2022 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain, David May

The Houthi crisis is creating an Emirati-Israeli opportunity

Houthi attacks on the United Arab Emirates proved what many have known for a long time, that Arab solidarity is an imaginary concept. In Beirut, Hezbollah cheered on the strikes. In Gaza, Hamas politburo...

November 26, 2019 | David May, Jacob Zack

Gaza Fighting Causes Rift Among Palestinian Terrorist Groups

A public dispute erupted this month between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas, two Iran-backed terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, following Israel’s November 12 assassination of senior PIJ leader...

March 9, 2017 | Grant Rumley |

New Blood for Fatah and Hamas

Palestinian politicians tend to view term limits as casual suggestions. This is especially true in the case of the two largest Palestinian parties: the nominally secular Fatah, which manages the...

October 7, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

The Truth About Diversity

In theory, we Americans are great proponents of diversity. In practice, how many of us stop to seriously consider the meaning of the word? If peoples really are diverse – if we differ not j...

September 12, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer

Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I tha...

September 9, 2014 | |

Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror

Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...

June 21, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer |

How Hamas Lost the Arab Spring

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is feuding with its former patron, Iran. Along with Hezbollah and Russia, Iran has stood squarely behind the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria while it slaught...

December 4, 2012 | |

Yes, Hamas and Iran are Still the Best of Friends

Ignoring their collusion is dangerous

November 15, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer National Post |

Why Israel Attacked Gaza

In a surgical air strike on Wednesday, Israel eliminated the terrorist leader who masterminded the capture of Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit in 2006. Yesterday’s attack killed Ahmed...

October 12, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Reality Catches Up with Hamas

Hamas' long-standing political leader Khaled Meshal was in trouble the moment Western sanctions - punishment for Iran's illicit nuclear activities - began eating into Tehran's fund...

November 29, 2011 | James Kirchick Tablet

Pink Eye

In June 2007, I marched in Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. To do so was a risk. A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis had issued a hex on t...

August 17, 2010 | Claudia Rosett The Rosett Report

Imam Feisal Watch: Let’s Try It Again, Where’s the Man Behind the GZ Mosque?

Where exactly is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the man behind the $100 million Ground Zero mosque project? I keep asking because weeks after he stopped answering any questions about his "Cordoba House"...

August 16, 2010 | Jonathan Schanzer

An Endorsement for Ground Zero from Gaza

Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, reportedly...

May 14, 2009 | Clifford D. May |

Are Two States a Solution?

Speaking to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee the other day, Vice President Joe Biden said: "Israel has to work toward a two-state solution." "You&#03...

June 25, 2006 | National Review Online

Our Blind Spot

President George W. Bush has made the global war on terrorism not only the cornerstone of his foreign policy, but perhaps the defining element of his...

January 29, 2006 |

Terrorists at the Gates

Did we invite them over?