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The Rising Insurgency for Sanctions Against Iran

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” -Otto von Bismarck Bismarck’s statement is eerily familiar with the legislative process described...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

A Deal With the Devil?

he Iranian nuclear negotiations have proven divisive enough within the United States and among the United States and its allies. But the bigger story...

The Case Against the International Criminal Court Investigating Israel

In 2012, my friend and colleague, Luis Moreno Ocampo who was then the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ruled correctly that "Palestine...

There is no diplomatic solution

With Israeli elections quickly approaching, it’s a near certainty based upon historical precedents that we’ll soon be hearing assorted domestic and international voices emphasizing...

North African Fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Conflict: The Reality and Implications

Institute for Contemporary Affairs Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 15, No. 1       January 13, 2015 Syria and Iraq have become the...

‘Lone soldiers’ from Kansas City serve in Israel’s army

It started as a vacation: Israel. Jake Fichman had never been there. Though Jewish, the former Barstow School and Park University graduate from south Kansas...

Hizbullah Rotates Thousands In Syria

The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has rotated thousands of fighters in Syria, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Hizbullah was rotating 5,000 fighters...

The ideological roots of media bias against Israel

On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner in London. Expanding on a widely-noted...
Kurdish peshmerga prepare to combat IS forces south of the Mosul Dam in northern Iraq on January 21.

Research on the Islamic State

Middle East Forum Shillman/Ginsburg Fellow Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi is one of world's leading researchers on the Islamic State (IS) group terrorizing Iraq and Syria....

10,000 Palestinian teens graduate Hamas terror camp

While their senior counterparts have been testing new homemade rockets and rebuilding the terror tunnel infrastructure, more than 10,000 teenagers arrived at an Izz...