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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...
Backlash Builds Over ‘60 Minutes’ Hatchet Job on Israel
And Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies had this to say: “It’s truly mystifying: Is this the result of ignorance or bias or some cocktail of the two? more...
Israel Can’t Afford the Happy Talk
Reuel Marc Gerecht posits that real success is almost certainly unattainable and would require that Iran “(1) Stop all uranium enrichment to 20 percent purity, which is near bomb-grade; (2) ship abroad the entire stockpile of 20 percent enriched uranium... 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...
German SPD Youth Group Calls for Attack on Iran if Sanctions Fail
Jerusalem Post journalist Benjamin Weinthal, who has thankfully returned to regular blogging, just posted about a potentially significant, albeit somewhat counter-intuitive, development on the German left. 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...
Can Israel Really Aid Iran’s Opposition, as Meir Dagan Suggests?
Michael Ledeen, a freedom scholar at Foundation for Defense of Democracies and one of the biggest supporters of regime change in Iran, said he was happy to see Dagan’s remarks about aiding Iran’s opposition on 60 Minutes. more...
Experts: Israel’s New Bunker-Busters Can Take Out Iran’s Nuke Plants
In an article titled “Israel has the power to knock out Iran’s nuclear facilities” published in the NY York Daily News, Berlin-based reporter Benjamin Weinthal argues that Israel has the military capability to launch a successful attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. more...
US Skips Chance to Hit Foreign Firms with New Iran Penalties Before High-Stakes Israel Meeting
Mark Dubowitz, a sanctions expert advising the administration on Iran, said announcing more penalties Wednesday would have sent a message that the administration was serious about sanctions enforcement. more...
Iran Further Complicates Relations between Obama, Netanyahu
Though the Israelis agree that stepped-up sanctions are starting to take a toll on Iran, they aren't working fast enough, says Mark Dubowitz, executive director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative group that focuses its research on human rights and terrorism issues. more...
Will Israel Act as the West’s Protector?
I asked Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who has worked strenuously to develop and advocate for sanctions, where he thought we now stood and whether Israel should doubt Obama’s resolve. more...
King Abdullah of Jordan: ‘We Have to Keep Our Fingers Crossed’ on Peace Talks
Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told me that the peace process does not appear to be a major priority for the King, regardless of his comments and actions. 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...
Panetta’s Antagonistic Speech on Israel
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense for Democracies wasn’t all that surprised by another round of heavy-handed public lecturing from the Obama team. 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...
Would Obama Use Military Force to Stop Iran From Getting Nukes?
It’s hard to tell the motive for leaking this information. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies e-mailed me: “There’s one way to look at this positively — it can be viewed as psychological warfare, in an attempt to persuade the Iranians to stand down.” more...
Israel is Planning for the Inevitable
Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explains the dilemma: “Ultimately, the Israelis cannot wait for a green light from the U.S. when its survival is at stake. more...
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