Why FDI opposes the Hagel nomination

http://iran.org/news/2013_01_10-hagel.html FDI opposes the nomination of Senator Chuck Hagel to become the next Secretary of Defense. For the past 17 years, FDI has championed the pro-freedom movement in Iran, and has argued that helping Iranians to...

Israel’s Electoral Shift Unlikely To Boost Peace In Near Term

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130126/DEFREG04/301260020/Israel-8217-s-Electoral-Shift-Unlikely-Boost-Peace-Near-Term TEL AVIV - Contrary to claims of an Israeli electoral shift to more moderate, middle ground, the new government to be formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is projected to retain its right-wing reticence...

Concerns about Middle East Studies workshop

Dear President Qayoumi, Mo.Qayoumi@sjsu.edu We are faculty at the University of California and co-founders of the AMCHA Initiative, a grassroots organization committed to investigating, documenting, and combatting campus antisemitism, particularly on California public university campuses. We...

Getting rid of Bashar Assad won’t end Syria’s civil war

http://www.meforum.org/3501/bashar-assad-syria-civil-war To hear Obama administration officials talk about the Syrian civil war, you'd think it all hinges on the fate of one man. According to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Syrian President Bashar Assad "calculated...

Putin is unreliable; on to direct messages to Assad

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4383560,00.html The bellicose statements issued by senior defense officials regarding Syria in the last three days are not accidental. This time, it seems, it is not a case of too many public appearances by the...

U.S. Envoy Tackles Israel-PA Security

President Barack Obama's new security envoy has been tackling security obstacles to the establishment of a Palestinian state. John Allen, the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has been supporting the shuttle by Secretary of State...

America’s Problems in the Middle East are Just Beginning

http://www.meforum.org/3583/america-problems-middle-east It's 2015, and there is a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas), financed by Iran, wins an election on a platform demanding the expulsion...

The Pros and Cons of Attacking Syria

http://www.meforum.org/3599/attacking-syria Go after the dog's master, not the dog. Kudos to Michael Ledeen for explaining that the road to Damascus starts in Tehran. As Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu explained on Aug. 25, "Assad's regime isn't acting...

Netanyahu’s Nay-Saying on Iran Is Working

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/11/06/netanyahus-nay-saying-on-iran-is-working/ For weeks, even people who share Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s suspicions of Iran have been loudly proclaiming that his tactics are all wrong: He’s alienating the world with his negative attitude toward the Iranian...

The Jordan Valley is the answer

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=6897 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is visiting our region again. Borders are a core issue and the main component of any framework deal between us and the Palestinians, and Kerry knows that Israel...