Obama’s ‘boy wonder’
Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President Bush and Vice President Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase sug...
Sunday
Analysis: Why the German Foreign Minister’s Iran Trip Flopped
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s trip to Iran on Saturday turned the clock back to the Federal Republic’s pre-sanctions pro-Iran policies by showing an indifferent po...
Op-eds
Spanish Councilman Who Favored Burning of Jews Resigns as Cultural Head
Guillermo Zapata, the Madrid city councilman in charge of cultural and sport affairs, resigned his post on Monday because of a series of anti-Jewish tweets that mocked the Holocaust. Zap...
Op-eds
Former Turkish Parliamentarian Joins FDD as Non-Resident Fellow
WASHINGTON — Dr. Aykan Erdemir, a former member of the Turkish Parliament from 2011 to 2015, has joined the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) as a non-resident fellow. Based in An...
Press Releases
From Salman Rushdie to Charlie Hebdo
A quarter-century of Western fecklessness led from the former to the latter.
Op-eds
Analysis: ‘One-Handed Economist’ Needed to End Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program
With Iran and the world powers meeting on Monday in Geneva for a new round of negotiations to end the Islamic Republic’s illicit nuclear weapons program, the question arises: How vulnerable...
Op-eds
Analysis: In Germany a gap between ‘Never Again-Jew-Hatred’ and real action?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a characteristically excellent speech against anti-Semitism on Sunday in the heart of the country’s government district. She lambast...
Op-eds
Beheshti Never Came to Tripoli
This Sunday marks the 36th anniversary of the disappearance of Lebanese-Iranian cleric Musa as-Sadr during a visit to Libya in 1978. While it has long been unders...
Op-eds
Canadian Activists are Finally Learning that Israel Isn’t the Middle East’s True Villain
At the time of their release from Egyptian custody this past weekend, filmmaker and pro-Palestinian activist John Greyson and his traveling companion Tarek Loubani were just ...
Op-eds
A Bad Joke: The Sad Reality of Jews in Europe
On Sunday, 27 countries across Europe will celebrate the annual European Day of Jewish Culture 2012. What begun in 1996, near Strasbourg, France, as a local effort to open abandoned and...
Op-eds
The Copts Will Fight
But they won’t win.
Op-eds
Middle East Howlers
A “howler,” the Wall Street Journal called it in an editorial yesterday. That certainly is a fitting description of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest mindboggling fora...
Op-eds
So When Does Saudi Arabia Say Thank You to Israel?
It’s a good bet that in Tehran and Pyongyang, officials will be poring with great interest over every detail in a lengthy piece in Sunday’s New York Times, all about the “digita...
Op-eds
A New Chapter for Africa
On Sunday, Southern Sudanese in their millions flocked to some three thousand polling stations set up not only in Sudan, but around the world to the accommodate the far-flung diaspora, to cast th...
Op-eds
Living History .. with the New York Times
“U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ‘05.” So blared the top headline of Sunday’s New York Times. Breathlessly, correspondent Mark Mazzetti reported...
Op-eds
Strikes in Somalia
On Sunday, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship launched a strike against what Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman on Tuesday called “principal al-Qaeda leadership” operating in sout...
Op-eds
Never Forget
Unlike last year, there was little controversy this Memorial Day about ABC News's decision to broadcast an honor roll of the American troops who died this past year serving in Iraq and Afgha...
Op-eds
1864 & Me
A response to Southern Appeal.