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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I recently attended a briefing by a former NYPD counterterrorism official on the risk to the United States from so-called “Lone Wolf” terror attacks. Generally speaking a “Lone Wolf” is a terrorist who is not a member of any larger international or domestic terrorist organization, who launches a terrorist attack utilizing only what weapons...
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Roaches scatter when the lights go on. Hollywood movies have taught us that once the hero has shined a light on the doers of evil, bringing troubling matters to light, the cops swoop in, the bad actors are rounded up, the credits roll, and the camera pans up to...
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Several months into the brutal crackdown perpetrated by Bashar Assad’s regime, suppressing the Syrian people, during which human rights groups estimate as many as 1,600 people have been killed, the “Assad the Reformer” chorus  may have finally been silenced. U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford, and French Ambassador Eric Chevallier earned the wrath of the Syrian...
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One of the great mysteries of the federal terrorism Holy Land Foundation Trial, which blew the lid off the Muslim Brotherhood (M.B.) in America, was why, although the government had the evidence, further prosecutions never took place against the long list of co-conspirators . Documents and wire taps had named dozens of Brothers and...
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A shocking memorandum by Syrian intelligence uncovered last week instructed plainclothes secret policemen, who have mixed with the protesters, to open fire upon their own military officers and security forces, “in order to further deceive the enemy.”  “In the event of protesters’ deaths,” security officials were instructed to say , “armed gangs and extremist...
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Revolution and turmoil continue throughout the Middle East, with Moammar Qaddafi’s brutal suppression of the uprising in Libya earning the majority of headlines. But in tiny Bahrain, events are unfolding that may have tremendous consequences for the entire region. On March 14, the Gulf Cooperation Council, led by Saudi Arabia, deployed more than 3,000...
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America is a nation that was born in religious freedom. As a community,  Jews have found safe harbor and  true emancipation on these shores.  When my father came here, fleeing Nazi Germany, he cried when the ship passed the Statue of Liberty. He and his generation profoundly loved what this country stands for. He...
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