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February 7, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Close Down UNRWA

Western nations must not continue to contribute to a UN agency that is effectively controlled by a terrorist organization.

November 5, 2015 | |

Panzer auf der Landebahn

Bei seiner Antrittsrede vor den iranischen Revolutionsgarden am 16. September 2013 schlug der neu gewählte Präsident Hassan Rohani den versammelten Kommandeuren einen Deal vor: Die Revo...

November 19, 2014 | Thomas Joscelyn

Gitmo ‘Poet’ Now Recruiting for Islamic State

An ex-Guantanamo detainee based in northern Pakistan is leading an effort to recruit jihadists for the Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls large portions of Iraq and Syria....

December 12, 2013 | Behnam Ben Taleblu FDD Policy Brief |

Catching Up with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Iranian election in June was in many ways a referendum on the policies of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. By campaigning against the status quo, Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, sought to pro...

May 13, 2013 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Radioactive Regime

The list is long of Occidentals who’ve fallen for Persia. This isn’t surprising. Compared with Arab lands save Egypt, Iran has a longer history—Hegel described the Persians as &...

February 4, 2013 | |

Unlikely Peacemakers

Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.

November 29, 2012 | Lee Smith The Weekly Standard |

Communications Blackout in Syria

Two technology firms that monitor global Internet traffic report that Syria has been cut off from the Inte...

November 19, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Jihadology |

Perceptions of the “Arab Spring” Within the Salafi-Jihadi Movement

Co-authored by Tara Vassefi “The popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain have not only shaken the foundation of the authoritarian order in the...

September 27, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Ahmadinejad Shows His Soft Side in UN Speech

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a devout, sincerely spiritual, loyal foot soldier of the Islamic revolution, gave his variation of John Lennon’s “Imagine” before the United Nations on Wedn...

July 13, 2012 | Claudia Rosett The Wall Street Journal |

How Iran Steams Past International Sanctions

By reflagging and renaming its ships, Tehran keeps one step ahead of the law.

March 5, 2012 | James Kirchick Commentary |

The Deceits of Seymour Hersh

Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...

December 19, 2011 |

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel, a Revolutionary Who Always ‘Lived Within the Truth’

In 1985, then dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel, who died Sunday at the age of 75, wrote an essay...

November 30, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Fallible

In June, Hezbollah announced that it had captured two, perhaps three, CIA spies who had infiltrated its organization. Last week, the story finally made...

November 15, 2011 |

Belarus, the Land of No Applause

Unlike other dictators, who speak of their love for “freedom” and “liberty,” President Aleksandr Lukashenko of Belarus is admirably blunt abou...

September 28, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

Bin Laden’s Death: Conspiracy Theories Edition

Last night a student journalist sent me an inquiry about Osama bin Laden’s death — inquiring whether I “really believe Osama Bin Laden is dead.” Blake Hounshell...

June 15, 2011 | The New Atlantis

In Defense of Biofuels

On the world markets, the cost of a barrel of oil is, at this writing, over $120. In the United States, a gallon of gasoline now costs, on average, roughly $3.50. Even when adjusted for inflation...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

Graduate School of Hard Knocks

How to create experts in counterinsurgency.

May 16, 2011 |

Contentions The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet

 The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the...

September 22, 2010 | |

Why Ahmadinejad Acts the Way He Does at the U.N.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speeches at the United Nations and his utterances elsewhere in New York are, again, proof that the Marxist-Islamist Molotov cocktail that produced th...

July 18, 2008 | National Review Online |

Obama on Boumediene & Nuremburg

I have an article on the home page today discussing the rulings by civilian and military judges yes...