Is Turkey Abetting Iran?
David Ignatius of the Washington Post...
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Perhaps the greatest casualty in Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s campaign against political challengers has been former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. &l...
Op-eds
FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer Releases New Book on Palestinian Governance
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC -- The Foundation for Defense of Democracies announced the release of a new book today by...
Press Releases
The Bizarro Doctrine
American foreign policy in the Middle East has now entered Bizarro World–a place made humorously famous by comedian Jerry Seinf...
Op-eds
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Resigning?
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad tendered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday, according to...
Policy Briefs
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...
Op-eds
Schalit Deal May Boost Fatah-Hamas Unity
Exchange deal provides a window for unity that could complicate US policy in a region where there are already complications.
Op-eds
Reining in Abbas: How America Should Punish the Palestinian Leader
A new budget battle is brewing between the Republican-led Congress and the Obama White House. This time it’s not about trimming domestic spending. It’s about the $600 million in annua...
Op-eds
Congress Needs to Investigate a Corrupt Palestine Investment Fund
In a twist that almost certainly violates U.S. law, American taxpayers are unwittingly contributing to a Palestinian sovereign wealth fund controlled in part by the terrorist group Hamas....
Op-eds
Why the Hamas-Fatah Deal Is Bad for the Palestinians
The Palestinians zealously celebrated last week’s unity deal between Hamas and Fatah. Young men in both the West Bank and Gaza cruised around in their cars, honking and flashing the victory...
Op-eds
Fighting Terror in Sudan
The government of Sudan recently accused Israel of incinerating a car with a Hellfire missile near the coastal town of Port Sudan along the Red Sea. The aerial attack killed two people. President...
Op-eds
Prosecute Hezbollah
In the coming weeks, the United Nations will indict the killers of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in its first-ever tribunal to try terrorists. As the international prosecutors of the Secur...
Op-eds
The Ashburn Jihadist Signals A Greater Danger
The FBI’s arrest of Farooque Ahmed of Ashburn, Va., for allegedly assisting al Qaeda in planning multiple bombings around the nation’s capital paints a sobering picture of the threat...
Op-eds
Prognosis: Doom
Conventional wisdom tells us that September 11, 2001, changed everything. The suicide hijacking attacks were supposed to be a clarion call to a new conception of public safety and of national sec...
Op-eds
Future Jihad, Terrorist Strategies Against America by FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares
Future Jihad looks to both the past and future of the terrorist campaign against the free world by focusing on its historical, religious and cultural roots. Along the way, Phares provides i...