Israel SitRep: August 23, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IAF Kills at Least Six Hezbollah Operatives in Four Airstrikes in Southern Lebanon | IDF Operations Continue in Southern and Central Gaza; IAF Strikes Some 30 Targets in Past Day | IDF...
The New York Sun
Israel SitRep: August 2, 2024
Today’s Issue: | With War Apparently Imminent, Israel Holds Discussions with Allies, Hezbollah Evacuates Command Posts | Alma: 2,560 Attacks on Northern Israel Since the War Began, 48.4 Percent Against...
Israel at War Situation Report
Israel SitRep: July 1, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IDF Drone Strike Kills PIJ Commander in Nur Shams Refugee Camp in West Bank | IDF Continues Raid in Gaza City’s Shejaiya Neighborhood, IAF Airstrikes Eliminate Dozens of Terrorists...
Israel at War Situation Report
The Iran Nuclear Deal From Hell, and UN Ambassador Samantha Power in the Age of Genocide
Thirteen years ago, Samantha Power made a name for herself with her Pulitzer prize-winning book, “‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide.” In this book, sh...
Op-eds
The Company Ron Paul Keeps
The Republican Jewish Coalition announced this month that congressman Ron Paul would not be among the six guests invited to participate in its Republican Presidential Candidates Forum. “He&...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows
Washington, D.C. - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomes two new scholars to its ranks. Lee Smith, of the Weekly Standard, and...
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FDD Welcomes Lee Smith and James Kirchick as Fellows
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Press Releases
Early Warnings Ignored
September 11: A Decade Later
Op-eds
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
On torture and executive power, Democrats sing a different tune when the president is … a Democrat.
Op-eds
All You Need to Know About the UN: 155 Votes for Libya
All you really need to know about the United Nations is that today, in the 192-member General Assembly, 155 member states – yes, 155 – voted in favor of giving Libya — yes, Liby...
Op-eds
The Syria-Iran Alliance
In recent years, a number of erroneous notions have been re-injected into the policy discourse on the thirty-year old alliance between Syria and Iran. Statements such as "prying Syria away from I...
Op-eds
Profile of an Ideologue, Abu Yahya al-Libi
Op-eds
Russia — Not Just Provoking in Georgia
Secretary of State Rice acknowledges that, about six months ago, Russia resumed the Cold War practice of strategic bomber patrols off the coast of Alaska. The New York Sun has the report, v...
Op-eds
Susan Rice, Obama’s Foreign Policy Adviser, Strikes Again
She’ll be a source of non-stop amusement if Obama wins. Here, from Eli Lake at the New York Sun, is what McCain’s spokesman said regarding the ongoing negotiations with the I...
Op-eds
Hot in Tehran
On the same day that Tony Blair debuted in Portugal as Middle East envoy for the Quartet, a group attempting to advance peace efforts in the Middle East, another kind of meeting convened in Syria...
Op-eds
Symposium: Al Qaeda: What Next?
American intelligence has discerned that al Qaeda is rebuilding in Pakistan’s tribal areas and that a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden. T...
Op-eds
U.N.’s Reading List for N. Korea
Not only has the United Nations been caught funneling cash to the rogue regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, but it's now emerging that the U.N. Development Program was ordering up book...
Op-eds
Know Thy Enemies
SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and govern...
Op-eds
Mystery Surfaces Over Apartment of Kofi Annan
As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still...
Op-eds
The Courtier to Annan
Not so long ago, Kofi Annan was up to his ears in the Oil for Food scandal, and his legacy as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations was on its way down the drain. He was ducking que...