Peace

September 14, 2024 | David May, Melissa Sacks

The Fundraising Shortcut Ripe for Abuse

Did tax-exempt money help activists release maggots and mealworms on the Israeli prime minister’s delegation to Washington, DC, in late July? The perpetrators reportedly hailed from the Palestinian...

April 19, 2023 | David Maxwell, Mathew Ha

The Biden-Yoon Summit: An Opportunity To Chart A New Alliance Course

It is time for the U.S. and its ally South Korea to execute a political warfare strategy that flips the conventional wisdom.

May 31, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German FM Hosts Iranian Official Calling for Israel’s Destruction

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel welcomed Monday an Iranian religious leader who called for the elimination of Israel at last year’s al-Quds rally in Berlin. The appearance o...

January 4, 2017 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Russia’s New Favorite Jihadis: The Taliban

More than 15 years into America’s war in Afghanistan, the Russian government is openly advocating on behalf of the Taliban. Last week, Moscow hosted Chinese and Pakistani e...

July 22, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The World is Returning to Normal

Of all the popular myths about “how the world works,” the most dangerous to us at this moment is the one that goes “peace is normal, war is an aberration.”  Truth is,...

December 17, 2012 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al Qaeda Lives

The real story behind Benghazi and the other attacks of 9/11/12

November 29, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

Hamas Won?

A week after the ceasefire concluding Israel’s eight day campaign against Hamas, Operation Pillar of Defense, there is some debate as to who came out on top. The way one judges the outcome...

April 11, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. But Celebrated…

It’s a tribute to the collapse of modern education that so many people, from pundits and professors to movie stars and policy makers, continue to repeat stereotypes and slogans that are dem...

August 4, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Unhappy Anniversary

The 40th anniversary of the Six Day War, June 5 – 10, was the occasion for a flurry of media retrospectives. Less attention will be given to a related anniversary: June 19, 1967, when the I...

June 24, 2011 |

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...

June 15, 2011 |

Los Resultados de la Prueba

El aniversario pasó de puntillas casi sin mencionarlo. Hace 6 años, el 24 de junio de 2002, el presidente Bush cambió el rumbo de la política americana en Oriente Medi...

April 8, 2010 | |

Petraeus’s Israel Problem

Max Boot is a good historian. On Islam, I often disagree with him, finding in his work the wishful thinking common among Islamic Democracy Project enthusiasts. Still, he is thoughtful and civil,...

April 9, 2009 | |

Bashar Assad the Peacemaker? Think Again

Recent statements by the Syrian president indicate more of the same

October 9, 2008 | Clifford D. May |

Iran’s War

After a quarter century, too little learned.

August 10, 2008 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

Terrorists Here, Terrorists There, Terrorists Everywhere

But for heaven’s sake, don’t call them terrorists, don’t send our armies against them (although special forces are ok), and don’t even think about declaring “war&rdq...

June 13, 2007 |

Infeliz Aniversario

El cuadragésimo aniversario de la Guerra de los Seis Días, acaecida del 5 al 10 de junio, dio pie a un aluvión de retrospectivas en los medios de comunicación. Menos a...

December 12, 2006 | |

Opportunity Lost

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered his farewell speech Monday, squandering yet another opportunity to apologize for his failures and come clean about the U.N. Instead, he used...

October 31, 2004 | |

The End of the Right of Self-Defense? Israel, the World Court, and the War on Terror

A country's right to defend itself against external attack is so irreducible a component of sovereignty as to have been assumed from time immemorial. Recent events, however, have cast seriou...