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Aid to Yemen: Throwing Good Money After Bad?

February 3, 2010  •  House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Written Testimony

Chairman Berman, Ranking Member Ros-Lehtinen, and distinguished Members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I commend you for holding this important and timely hearing. Moreover, I wish to thank you for the opportunity to address you today about the challenges of supporting the counterterrorism effort in Yemen.

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review of United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror

Winter 2010  •  Middle East Quarterly

Glazov, editor of FrontPageMag.com, exposes the hypocrisy of leftists and liberals who claim to champion the principles of freedom, democracy, liberalism, and feminism yet support both communist and Islamist dictatorships, which implement none of these principles.

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review of The Israel Test

December 24, 2009  •  The Jerusalem Post

The modern State of Israel has been many things to many people over the years. A century ago, it was merely a Zionist dream. In 1948, it became the homeland for Jewish people and an inspiration for Jews around the world. Concurrently, however, Israel also became the object of hatred for much of the Arab world. Since then, over the past 61 years, it has reluctantly represented a fault line among various global forces: the Soviets and the US, the non-aligned movements and democracies and, more recently, Islamists and the West.

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Rashid Khalidi Headlines Taxpayer-funded Palestinian Fest

December 17, 2009  •  American Thinker

The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization noted for the virulent anti-Israeli attitudes of its academic members, held a conference in October at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Most of the conference was apolitical, but two lectures in particular raise (again) the question of whether PARC should be the recipient of taxpayer monies. Indeed, this is not the first time the public has been warned about PARC's questionable scholar-activism.

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No Substitute for Sanctions

November 24, 2009  •  Frum Forum

The Iranian Government's instruments of financial leverage and soft power have taken a hit in the month of November.

On November 4, analyst Avi Jorisch revealed in the Wall Street Journal that Iran appears to be using a United Nations office headquartered in Tehran to skirt U.S. sanctions. Jorisch writes that Iran appears to be using the Asian Clearing Union "to route over $13 billion overseas in 2008 and over $5.6 billion so far in 2009 to pay for many of its goods and services." Presumably, the White House, the U.S. Treasury, and international anti-money laundering agencies have since chased down this lead.

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