Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Israel is a long-standing ally of the United States in an increasingly unstable Middle East. It remains one of very few democracies in the region, with a powerful military, and a vibrant, sometimes fractious society that has struggled for decades to reach accommodations with its neighbors.

Israel is a long-standing ally of the United States in an increasingly unstable Middle East. It remains one of very few democracies in the region, with a powerful military, and a vibrant, sometimes fractious society that has struggled for decades to reach accommodations with its neighbors.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies supports a strong, mutually beneficial relationship with Israel, and a negotiated settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

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Is Hamas Changing?

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FDD vice president of research Jonathan Schanzer focuses on the machinery of peacemaking. Author of Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine, the definitive book on the internecine Palestinian conflict that erupted in the wake of the legislative elections of 2006, Schanzer monitors political, military and economicdevelopments in the Palestinian territories, between Israelis and Palestinians and among  Palestinian factions.