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Peter Beinart’s one-state solution
If taken seriously, it could lead to a final solution
Op-eds
Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?
On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...
Op-eds
“Political correctness” aims at a new target
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell’s classic novel about a totalitarian and dystopian future, the ruling Party develops “Newspeak” as way to limit freedom of e...
Op-eds
Another Eulogy
Odds are you’ve never heard of Marco Pannella, the longtime leader of the Italian Radical Party, who died last week in Rome. He was 86, quite surprising for one of the country’s...
Op-eds
ISIS Is Losing Its Greatest Weapon: Momentum
Evidence suggests that the Islamic State's power has been declining for months
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Oren Kessler as New Deputy Director of Research
Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies welcomed Oren Kessler this week as its newest Deputy Di...
Press Releases
Obama’s Performance At West Point
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to bring us together and, on foreign policy, he may be making belate...
Op-eds
The Troubling Rise of American ‘Withdrawalism’
Eastern Ukraine is falling to pieces. Suicide bombings remain epidemic in Iraq. Much of eastern Syria now is controlled by an al-Qaeda spin-off group that calls itself “Islamic State of Ira...
Op-eds
Iran and Diplomacy vs. Engagement
‘Iran’s rulers are not open to engagement no matter what mix of carrots and sticks are offered.” Peter Beinart, a contributing editor of The Atlantic, attributed that r...
Op-eds
How A Weak Iran Deal Makes Us All Less Safe and War More Likely
The debate over whether Israel would launch an attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities to blunt Tehran’s nuclear ambitions has always loomed large in the mind of Western policymakers...
Op-eds
The Metaphysics of Jailbreaks
In the mid-seventies, when I was reporting from Rome for The New Republic, jailbreaks were commonplace. Red Brigades terrorists and other such broke out of prisons throughout the c...
Op-eds
Dangerous Mix of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Americanism
Even in the supposedly redemptive days of Barack Obama, Americans and Israelis traveling abroad have grown sadly accustomed to outbursts of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism and worse. But...
Op-eds
The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman
In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...
Op-eds
Books: Stand-Outs in Their Field
IN his 1980 autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 1960s American Jewish counter-cultural revolutionary Abbie Hoffman – who participated i...
Op-eds
South Africa’s ANC Lurches Into Anti-Semitism
Ruling Party Tarnishes Nelson Mandela's Legacy of Tolerance
Op-eds
In Defeat, Georgia’s President Confounds his Critics
Mikheil Saakashvili's conciliatory reaction to his party's loss in the election seems to prove his critics wrong.
Op-eds
Georgia’s Electoral Showdown
Emotions are running high as Georgians vote in a watershed parliamentary election.
Op-eds
Islam Blasphemy Riots Now Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The United States is the world’s undisputed king of culture. No country’s film industry can rival Hollywood; no nation’s musical artists sell more records worldwide than America...
Op-eds
A Perverse Quid Pro Quo
Sixty-five years after the end of World War II, it's reassuring to know that Germany has 'no place for Neonazis.' A more pressin