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July 15, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Mideast trip shows Biden choosing pragmatism, rejecting ‘Woke’ policy

'Progressives' dislike Saudi Arabia, Israel because they stand firm against ill-advised US policy on Iran

October 27, 2021 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Gaza 2021: How Biden Handled His Far-Left Hamas Caucus Problem

In Gaza Conflict 2021, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Senior Vice President for Research Jonathan Schanzer provides the first in-depth look at the May 2021 war initiated by Hamas against Israel,...

June 15, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

American actor James Woods urges Congress to pass anti-BDS resolution

He seeks resolution based on Austria's anti-BDS measure.

December 22, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

U.S. ambassador urges inquiry of German magazine’s anti-Americanism

Der Spiegel faced criticism for its bias against the Jewish state.

September 23, 2016 | Thomas Joscelyn

We Got Lucky … This Time

At approximately 9:35 a.m. on Saturday, September 17, a garbage can exploded along the route of the Seaside Semper Five Marine Corps Charity 5K Race in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Fortunately, no o...

December 10, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Giving Peace a Chance

Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti...

December 16, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Is the Terrorist Threat Declining? The Use and Abuse of Statistics

Earlier this month, terrorism analyst Peter Bergen wrote at CNN that the declining number of...

October 23, 2012 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Shabaab Threatens Britain Over Extradition of Abu Hamza al Masri

Co-authored by Lisa Lundquist Yesterday the Somali terror group Shabaab threatened to attack Britain for extraditing radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al Masri, who arrived in the...

September 20, 2012 | Clifford D. May

Misunderstanding 9/11

Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.

July 9, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal The Jerusalem Post |

Iran Pastor Facing Death for Apostasy

Iran has scheduled a September court date for evangelical Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, whose incarceration for practicing Christianity reaches the 1,000-day mark on Sunday. In an email to T...

October 27, 2011 | Andrew McCarthy National Review Online

Our Libyan Adventure

Qaddafi’s dictatorship was preferable to an Islamist Libya.

July 5, 2011 | |

Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy

Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?

June 16, 2011 |

Cast a Wider Net

The Islamic radicalization hearings need to hear from witnesses beyond cops and Muslims.

June 10, 2011 | Philadelphia Inquirer |

Time for U.S. to Reject U.N.’s Anti-Democratic Conference

If a group of despotic governments wants to organize a global mega-conference dedicated to fueling hatred of Jews, Israel and the United States, the United Nations might not be able to stop it. B...

April 18, 2011 | |

Obama & the Muslim Brotherhood, Continued …

My column this weekend was about the Obama administration’s infatuation with the Muslim Brotherhood — an infatuation that flies under the lunatic banner of “Islamic Outreach.&rd...

February 4, 2011 | Weekly Standard

U.S. Senators Demand that Germany Close Iran EIH Bank

U.S. frustration with German chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, seems to have reached a breaking point this week. Germany's recalcitrant position about shutting d...

January 31, 2011 | RealClear Politics.com

Steel Deal Reveals Pawlenty’s Priorities on Security, Jobs

If former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty decides, as expected, to run for president in 2012, he likely will talk about a unique national security qualification from 2007 in which he nudged an Indian c...

December 20, 2010 | American Foreign Policy Interests

Review: Somalia, the New Barbary? Piracy and Islam in the Horn of Africa

Since the tattered remnants of what was the country's last central government fled the capital aboard a column of their last functioning tanks in January 1991, Somalia has been such a striki...

November 16, 2010 | New American

Texans Uneasy Over Chinese Oil Investment in Lone Star State

The mainstream news has been relatively quiet in the last month about a recent and significant Chinese investment in South Texas oil. But Tom Pauken, chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission, has...

September 27, 2010 | The Long War Journal

Critical Questions Regarding The Role of Foreign Fighters in Shabaab

Earlier today I served as a panelist at the Foreign Policy Research Institute's annual conference on foreign fighters, discussing the phenomenon in Somalia. The panel discussion was based ar...