By: Sarah Stern and Kyle Shideler Last week, the Obama administration freed up $192 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority that had been put on hold by the United States Congress’ Committee of Foreign Operations Appropriations, saying that this money had to be given to the P.A. “because of national security interests.”...
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Ever since I founded my think tank and policy shop,  the Endowment for Middle East Truth, (EMET)  it has stood on two pillars: 1.) support for the state of Israel as an Eastern outpost of Western democratic values of pluralism, democracy and tolerance while  living in a very tough neighborhood and 2.)  support for...
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On May 8, 2001, twelve year old Koby Mandell, an American citizen decided to do the Huck Fin thing together with his friend, Yoseph Ishran and play hooky from school. Unfortunately, the punishment was not worth the crime.  Koby’s parents, Sherri and Seth Mandell, old friends of mine from Silver Spring, Maryland, began to...
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(ed. note: This article originally appeared as an editorial in the Washington Jewish Week) There is a very dangerous school of thought throughout the West that was succinctly expressed to me a few years back by a State Department official. “Talking,” he said with, “is always better than not talking. … After all, what...
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As most of you are well aware, more than 9,000 civilians have been mercilessly killed by the brutal forces of Bashir al-Assad in a human rights crisis of catastrophic proportions.  As a widely circulated Youtube video documents, in just one night, in the town of Homs, twenty -five children were butchered in their beds,...
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The following are  remarks by Sarah Stern from the Symposium the Endowment for Middle East Truth held, in cooperation with the Center for Security Policy on March 16th, featuring Ambassador James Woolsey, Dr. Michael Ledeen, Ken Timmerman and Clare Lopez . A full transcript of the event is available here. We are here today...
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By: Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler Bluster (n): loud, aggressive, or indignant talk with little effect -Oxford English Dictionary The take away from President Obama’s speech before AIPAC this week has been primarily focused on his stated rejection of “containment” as a strategy against Iran. Some on the President’s left were distraught over...
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By Sarah N. Stern and Kyle Shideler It seems like all the elements are coming together for a perfect storm coming out of Iran. Here in the United States, we are exhausted after two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and weary of any further military intervention.  We, at EMET, are on Capitol Hill constantly,...
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Lately, I have been hearing a great deal of talk inside the beltway about the inevitable decline of America.  The buzz is that all great powers, from that of Rome to Great Britain, have inevitably risen and fallen, and that the United States, because of a series of severe miscalculations in recent years, is...
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world … — William Butler Yeats By all accounts, 2011 has been a cataclysmic year in the Middle East. What began with a government official’s harassment of Mohamed Bouazizi,...
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