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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Your New 'Red-Green' City
The Following Document Was Discovered by Middle East Forum Operatives During Routine Surveillance of the Mamdani Transition Team’s Headquarters
The Closing Iranian Window: Preemption and Deterrence in the Hypersonic Age
The Islamic Republic of Iran Is on the Cusp of Achieving a Decisive Strategic Advantage Through the Operational Deployment of Hypersonic Weapons
We Won the War, but We're Losing the Peace
We Are Beginning to Forget the Central Lesson of October 7—That an Existential Threat Cannot Be ‘Managed'
Gotham's Red-Green Takeover: The Mamdani Experiment Begins
Mamdani’s Leftist Revolutionary Comrades and Islamist Allies in Civilizational Jihad Are over the Moon with the Opportunity They Have Won
The November 18 Decision: Why Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Must Lead Gaza Reconstruction
Trump’s Choice Between Gulf Pragmatism and Islamist Opportunism Will Define Whether Gaza Becomes a Model of Reconstruction or a Warning for the Region
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The Victory After Victory: Israel's Imperative for Renewal
Israel Stands at the Edge of Uneasy Quiet—a Nation Suspended Between Victory and Vigilance, Rebuilding its Institutions, Faith, and Purpose After the Long War that Refused to End.
When Conservative Leaders Lose Their Way
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts’ Recent Video Defense of Tucker Carlson Is Deeply Troubling
Gaza's Clan Architecture: The Only Alternative to Hamas's Resurgence
The October 2023 Hamas Attack on Israel Exposed a Fundamental Truth: Hamas’s Control Masked but Never Eliminated Deeper Tribal Loyalties
The Strategic Strangulation of Iran
We Can Cripple Tehran Without Firing a Shot — The Treasury Department has imposed its latest sanctions targeting Iranian weapons procurement networks at an extraordinary moment of Iranian vulnerability.
The Ghost of Gaza: How Hamas Survived
How a Ceasefire Snatched Defeat from the Jaws of Victory, Ensuring the Terror Group Survives to Fight Another Day
Why Israel Must Never Negotiate for Hostages Again
The Social Contract Must Evolve — The imminent release of hostages from Gaza under President Trump’s peace deal, which was announced yesterday, is cause for celebration and will bring relief to families …
Israel's Hostages Come Home, but At What Price?
The Sinwar Precedent Continues: How Prisoner Exchanges Breed the Next Generation of Mass Murderers
Two Years After the October 7 Massacre, Israel Remains a Strategic Asset, Not a Liability
The Source of Instability in the Middle East Is Not Israeli Strength—It Is the Genocidal Ideology of Iran and Its Network of Islamist Proxies
Granting Qatar a Security Guarantee Is a Strategic Mistake
With Trump’s Executive Order, America Has Allied Itself Not with a Partner for Peace, but an Agent for Instability
The Trump Gaza Plan’s Genius Lies in Its Inevitable Failure
Conflicts Do Not End Through Negotiation or Compromise When One Side Is an Implacable, Ideological Foe
The Twelve-Mile Tripwire: How a Gaza Flotilla Escort Courts Disaster
Italy and Spain Should Direct Their Warships to Halt Escort Operations Inside Israel’s Territorial Sea
Iran’s Shadow Empire: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s Military Infrastructure in Syria
A Middle East Forum Report | Based on Information Gathered by the Middle East Forum, 2018-2024
Israel’s Strike on Hamas Leaders’ Qatar Haven Was an Overdue Act of Justice
Tuesday’s Blasts in Doha, Qatar, Shattered the Illusion That Masterminds of Mass Murder Can Recline in Five-Star Safety and Call It ‘Diplomacy’
The End of the Five-Star Jihad in Qatar
From the Comfort of Its Control Center in Doha, Hamas Rejected Proposals to Free All the Hostages and Rejected Deals to End the War with Israel