The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that drive terrorism.
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Foundation for Defense of Democracies
"Until the Islamist movement is seen as failing and in retreat, there can be no durable resolution of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors no matter how much Israelis want it, no matter how hard they work for it, no matter how much they are willing to sacrifice and no matter how strenuously Americans push."
-Cliff May
www.momentmag.com
Israel’s American supporters spend a lot of energy trying to convince people that Israelis want peace, are working for peace and are prepared to sacrifice for peace. All that’s true but it misses this point: Militant jihadis are waging a war against the “infidel” West. ...
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Watch Jonathan Schanzer discuss the recent wave of European companies exiting the Iranian market and the need for gasoline sanctions legislation.
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Gasoline sanctions against Iran and latest developments in homegrown terrorism.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies In the Wall Street Journal, Mark Dubowitz comments on Ingersoll-Rand PLC prohibiting its subsidiaries from selling products to Iran.
online.wsj.com
The Dublin-based industrial-equipment maker prohibits non-U.S. subsidiaries from selling products to customers in Iran, following a similar announcement by Caterpillar earlier this month.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies "Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, called Monday's decision [to ease export restrictons exports of social-media software to Iran] a very important interagency policy statement by the administration, and the first time it has provided 'material support for the pro-democracy ...Green Movement' in Iran -- 'the only thing that has so far rattled the regime'".
washingtontimes.com
The Obama administration said Monday it will ease some sanctions on Iran, Sudan and Cuba to allow U.S. exports of social-media software to help those countries' citizens "circumvent" government censorship.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Watch Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discuss American al-Qaeda recruits in Pakistan on CBN NewsWatch.
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American al-Qaeda recruits in Pakistan.
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FDD Welcomes Reports that Two Large Gasoline Suppliers to Iran Bow Out of Market. The threat
of gasoline sanctions exerting significant pressure on regime, but
final legislation and strong presidential support is still needed.
defenddemocracy.org
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies that threaten democracy.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Watch Dr. Walid Phares discuss why recent elections in Iraq are successful, despite the violence.
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Iraqi elections.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Watch Andrew C. McCarthy discuss the need for a national security court to try terrorists suspects on Fox and Friends.
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Where to try terrorists suspects.
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"Meet Mosab Hassan Yousef, a genuine Palestinian freedom fighter. He was raised to become a leader of the terrorist group Hamas--strict Muslims dedicated to the destruction of Israel. But the horrors he saw them inflicting on their own people led him to become an informant within Hamas for the Israeli security service ...Shin Bet. Risking death had he been found out, he worked for years to save innocent lives, as he puts it--both Israeli and Palestinian."
-Claudia Rosett
www.forbes.com
Reflective words from former informant Mosab Hassan Yousef.
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"If a top intelligence expert said America was not prepared for war and, indeed, that if we went to war “we would lose,” that would worry you, wouldn’t it? Start worrying."
-Cliff May on Cyberwarfare
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Scripps Howard News Service, Spanish translation here.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Follow this link to watch the video of FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen discuss his new book Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West.
www.heritage.org
Acknowledging the existence and actions of evil enemies means accepting that we are at war, and then designing and conducting a strategy to win. In Accomplice to Evil, Dr. Michael Ledeen takes a comprehensive ...
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
"Congratulations to the Iranians then: their diplomacy, alongside their subterfuge and acts of nuclear brinkmanship playing with the IAEA and its safeguards, may be gaining them a few more weeks, if not months, in a year that, by everyone’s judgment, may be the critical one for their nuclear ambitions."
-Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi
www.commentarymagazine.com
Last Friday, the New York Times ran an interesting piece by David Sanger about a puzzling element that emerged in the latest IAEA report on Iran — namely Iran’s decision to bring most of its LEU stockpile to the Natanz Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant for further enrichment to 19.75 percent levels. ...
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
"The ban on the burqa — the outer garment that covers a woman from head to toe — denounces a practice that has nothing to do with religion, but rather is a way for fanatical men to have dominion over women. If passed, France’s partial burqa ban will protect a woman’s right to freedom and dignity. She will no longer be ...obliged to cover herself, but can do so in some instances if she chooses to. (Here’s an opposing viewpoint on why France is wrong to consider the burqa ban.)"
-Olivier Guitta
blogs.reuters.com
Global Post contributor Olivier Guitta says burqas have nothing to do with religion.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Great event this morning at the Atlantic Council. FDD Freedom Scholar Michael Ledeen debated New America's Flynt Leverett on Iran: Regime Change or Engagement. Check the link below for video. Should be up later this week.
www.acus.org
Kurt Volker, an Atlantic Council senior advisor and member of the Strategic Advisors Group, delivered a lecture at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs on the challenges ...
Foundation for Defense of Democracies
"What other overriding purpose aside from withdrawal has Barack Obama laid out for the US in Iraq? The White House’s silence has been deafening. Already the perception of an American vacuum has caused a panicking Saudi Arabia, eager to contain Iranian influence in Iraq, to cover for Syrian actions in the country intend...ed to defeat Maliki. Instead of offering leadership and ensuring that the policies of the United States’ regional allies are in line with those of Washington, Obama has taken initiativesbereft of strategic coherence. This includes the ill-advised decision recently to elevate the level of contacts with Syria in the hope of 'isolating' Iran."
-Tony Badran
nowlebanon.com
Last week, General Raymond Odierno, the commander of American forces in Iraq, made statements that refocused attention on the strategic importance of Iraq for US regional interests. Odierno framed the ...
