Foundation for Defense of Democracies

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ vice president of research Jonathan Schanzer wrote Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine, the definitive book on Palestinian internecine conflict that erupted in the wake of the legislative elections of 2006. Schanzer has spent much of his time since monitoring the political developments between the Palestinian factions, the Israelis, and the international community.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ vice president of research Jonathan Schanzer wrote Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine, the definitive book on Palestinian internecine conflict that erupted in the wake of the legislative elections of 2006. Schanzer has spent much of his time since monitoring the political developments between the Palestinian factions, the Israelis, and the international community.

At the organization’s Washington Forum in December 2010, FDD featured a range of speakers on Palestinian politics and the Middle East peace process as a whole, including: Ghaith al-Omari, advocacy director of the American Task Force on Palestine and former foreign policy advisor to then-Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas; Aaron David Miller, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and former Middle East peace negotiator under Presidents Clinton and Bush; and Schanzer.
Wall Street Journal editorial page columnist and FDD advisor Bret Stephens moderated.

As of the latter half of 2011, FDD continues to focus on Palestinian efforts to adopt a unilerateral declaration of statehood at the United Nations General Assembly. The maneuever would be a diplomatic end run around Israel and the United States, and could have dangerous and unforeseen consequences.