It was billed as a delegation of the Muslim Brotherhood, traveling to America for the first time.  And they were treated like a true diplomatic delegation (i.e., one with diplomatic immunity), despite representing not a government but an eighty year-old totalitarian political party. They paraded before foreign policy establishment gurus at the Council for...
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(Ed. Note: As some times happens, events overtake the publishing cycle, and the March to Jerusalem is now underway. We publish this piece as is, because we believe it contains useful information regardless. Updates will be provided below, as time and circumstances permit, in chronological order.) The International Global March to Jerusalem (GM2J) appears,...
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(Ed. Note: This article comes to us from Alex Traiman, director of the film Iranium) by Alex Traiman The international community is focusing heavily on Israeli caution over Iran’s nuclear progress, political developments between the United States, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, as well airstrikes in Gaza.  Fewer are taking notice of increased violence...
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The basis for this article began in response to a Hill staffer’s question regarding options for dealing with the Syrian crisis. A version of this article appears at the American Thinker Blog. The crisis in Syria is now into its second year, and the death count, now nearing 8,000 according to rebel sources, continues...
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“Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy. That’s critical. There is not a single statement that the president has ever made in any of our policy assertions that the Taliban is our enemy, because it threatens U.S. interests.” – Vice President Joe Biden, December 2011 “Dreamers tell us dreams come true, it’s...
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EMET does not, as a matter of policy, support or oppose political candidates or any political party. However, we feel it appropriate to comment substantively on a political figure’s foreign policy positions, especially those jeopardizing the national security of the United States and her allies, including Israel. With Republican Congressman Ron Paul coming in...
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(ed. note: The following was written by Arlene Kushner, formerly the Senior Analyst for the Center for Near East Policy Research, and currently serving that agency as a consultant. Additionally Arlene is an author, free-lance investigative journalist and blogger.  You can find a wealth of postings and investigative material at her website, www.arlenefromisrael.info. EMET...
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By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler This past Friday, at a policy conference in Washington, Puneet Talwar, Senior Director for Iran, Iraq and the Gulf States at the White House National Security Council addressed the group. In his “on the record” remarks, Mr. Talwar calmly stated, “We have a three legged stool in our...
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Sunday morning, an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps missile commander and sixteen other IRGC officials were killed in an explosion at a base southwest of Teheran. Iranian officials called the explosion an accident during the transport of munitions, but there are a number of reasons to believe it was not. Firstly, the commander killed...
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Summary: Over the past year, events in the Middle East, including most notably the Arab Spring, have dramatically altered the security landscape facing the nation of Israel, as well as the national security interests of the United States in the region.  While each of these events have been well cataloged separately and in greater...
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