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Palestinian Refugees and the UN
There are many reasons to detest the United Nations. It treats proponents of genocide as legitimate world leaders. It is among the most anti-Semitic institutions on the planet. more...
Will the Young Eat the Revolution?
Revolutions, it is often said, eat their young; the Palestinian revolutionary movement, in all its splinters, certainly has swallowed generations of Palestinian children. more...
Middle East Non-Leadership
In the meantime, our claim to the moral high ground evaporates. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies comments on Obama’s inconsistency in the region when it comes to democracy and support for human rights. more...
Marzook: No Recognition, No Permanent Peace
Marzook also stood firm on a number of Hamas' other perpetual and preposterous non-negotiable pre-conditions, including the fact that any future agreement would have to "include the unqualified right of Palestinians to return to land in what is now Israel." more...
Why the Mitt-Bibi Bromance Won’t Affect World Affairs
"The likelihood that Romney's presence at 1600 Pennsylvania can help seal a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians is very low," says Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. more...
As Global March to J’lem Nears, Press War Rages
Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the US-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, wrote in a blog post for the website of The Weekly Standard that the risk of violence at Friday’s march should not be discounted. more...
Iran’s Gaza Missile Gambit
As Jonathan Schanzer writes in Foreign Policy, the latest terror offensive that led to more than 200 missiles being fired at Israel was the brainchild of the Iranians. By starting the fight that the Israelis finished, Iran’s terrorist proxies were not just seeking to burnish their image by seeking to kill Jews more...
2012: It Could be a Year of Middle East Uncertainty
In addition, Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, agreed that the "Iranian nuclear crisis will be the number one security concern of 2012." more...
Do You Believe in the “New” Hamas?
That’s the conceit behind an article in The National Interest titled “A new Hamas in the Making?” which cites no less an authority than Jane’s military publications that the Islamist group is making a “strategic” shift in strategy which aims at repositioning Gaza’s overlords as legitimate Arab players on the stage of Middle East diplomacy. more...
Beyond the Bid
Regardless of the likelihood of a US veto, the putative state of Palestine might not even meet all the international legal requirements to qualify as a self-created state. more...
UN Aftermath Creates Ripple Effect Across Campus
“We also hosted Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, who spoke on the Palestinian UN statehood bid," she continued. "We are continuing to hold events showcasing what Israel has done to achieve peace and what it continues to do.” more...
Are U.S. Tax Dollars Covering Financial Rewards to Palestinian Terrorists?
According to Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “the PIF was created in 2002 to manage and distribute the money and commercial interests owned by the PA. more...
Female Prisoners Reviled on Both Sides of Conflict
“They fear for their own lives,” said Jonathan Schanzer, president of research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy, an institute that studies terrorism. “They created enemies in the Gaza Strip,” which, he added, is not a safe place to be if you have enemies. ... more...
Obama’s Middle East Dead End
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies sees a real danger that such talks “will put power back into the hands of the Quartet and President Obama. They will be able to use this as leverage to push the Israelis on concessions for peace. more...
Abbas Rejects US Corruption Allegations
The Palestinian Authority has received repeated warnings from the US not to pursue statehood recognition via the UN. Chairwoman of the US House Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger recently sent a forceful message to President Abbas, telling him that “current and future aid will be jeopardized if you abandon direct negotiations and continue your efforts.” more...
Media Ignores Abbas/Hamas Electricity Scam
In congressional testimony Wednesday, Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies provided the intrepid Washington press corps what should be an important scoop: that one of the largest recipients of U.S. foreign assistance, the Palestinian Authority, is helping the Hamas terror organization raise money. more...
U.S. Congress Mulls Cutting PA Funding, Closing PLO Mission in Light of UN Bid
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of Treasury, argued that despite the fact that the Palestinian government lead by Fayyad was lauded for its transparency, Abbas was still managing to abuse his power. more...
Who Owns the Palestine Investment Fund?
Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing to re-examine U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority in light of its plan to go to the UN rather than negotiate with Israel. more...
Hearing: U.S. Must Respond if UN Declares Palestinian State
But "Fayyad has been sidelined" by Abbas, who "has consolidated power, and… is now abusing it," said Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. One particularly egregious example is the Palestine Investment Fund, created in 2002 to manage and allocate money and commercial interests owned by the PA. more...
A U.N. Vote: A Loss for Israel and a Humiliation for the U.S.
I spoke this morning with Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Before his testimony he went to the Middle East to glean information about the upcoming vote and the reaction of Palestinians to the potential for U.N. recognition of Palestinian statehood in some form. more...
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