Gatestone Institute

While Israel predicably – and falsely -- gets the blame for leading the US into war with Iran, the major European powers -- the UK, France, and Germany -- reveal their antipathy towards anything that might applaud or validate Israel's existence, perhaps out of envy over Israel's incredible economic and military success. gatestoneinstitute.org/22366/america-…

Cyber-enabled terrorism has become a critical national security issue for countries in the Indo-Pacific region, especially in India's Jammu and Kashmir, the wider Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, where end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms and online recruitment have connected a substantial percentage of Muslim youths to Islamist terror networks.  gatestoneinstitute.org/22404/islamic-…

The Muslim Brotherhood has long mastered the art of dual messaging. To the West, it presents itself as a network of charities, activists, community leaders and political organizers. Yet the same organization is, in Egypt and elsewhere, linked to terror cells, assassins, and attempts to carry out mass-casualty attacks. If the US and its allies are truly committed to confronting extremism, they seriously need to confront the Muslim Brotherhood in all its forms, not just when it explodes into violence. gatestoneinstitute.org/22399/egypt-da…

The possible destruction of the mullahs' regime in Iran would not merely represent a geopolitical victory; it would mark the dawn of an era in which the idea that all human societies must be governed by Allah's law and not by men could finally be escorted back to where it came from. gatestoneinstitute.org/22367/free-wor…

Following President Ahmed al-Sharaa's December 2024 seizure of power in Syria, the jihadist regime's persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, Druze and Alawites, has skyrocketed as the country undergoes a process of radical Islamization. gatestoneinstitute.org/22398/syria-ch…

Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have again rejected demands by US President Trump's "Board of Peace" to lay down their weapons. This rejection underscores the determination of terror groups to continue their fight against Israel. gatestoneinstitute.org/22396/sham-of-…

In a welcome moment of moral clarity, the United States Congress recently took a step toward acknowledging one of the most underreported genocides of the twentieth century. gatestoneinstitute.org/22397/us-congr…

The Venezuelan "solution" for Iran would just mean kicking the ball down the road. The wisest and least problematic solution is regime change. gatestoneinstitute.org/22391/iran-ven…

This is the moment when the United States and Israel could make greatest strategic mistake in the Iran war: stopping halfway while leaving "moderate" extremists still in place. gatestoneinstitute.org/22390/iran-fin…

The Iranian regime has not merely rejected US President Donald Trump's peace plan; it has countered with a series of conditions so detached from reality that they raise a fundamental question: is Tehran negotiating or hallucinating? gatestoneinstitute.org/22383/iran-fan…

While the Gulf states find themselves directly in the line of fire, their frustration is not directed only at Tehran, but increasingly at fellow Arab states whose response has been muted, symbolic, or absent altogether. As far as the Gulf states are concerned, the Arab response is just background noise. gatestoneinstitute.org/22382/arabs-di…

US President Donald Trump must not abandon his demand that Hamas fully disarm before going forward with his Gaza peace plan. gatestoneinstitute.org/22364/disarmin…

The decision by Prime Minister Netanyahu, together with President Donald Trump, to confront Iran was not recklessness. It was courage. gatestoneinstitute.org/22369/trump-ne…

"China and Cuba are negotiating to establish a new joint military training facility on the island," reported the Wall Street Journal in 2023. So, whatever one thinks of the harsh consequences of the U.S. naval embargo, the Havana regime, by allowing the Chinese to have the run of the island, does pose a threat to the United States. gatestoneinstitute.org/22365/china-cu…

Someone needs to inform "Board of Peace" Director-General Nikolay Mladenov that Hamas has already made a choice: to reject disarmament. Another thing the "Board of Peace" and Mladenov do not seem to understand is that Hamas uses ceasefires with Israel to rebuild, regroup, and restock its arsenal and tunnel networks. gatestoneinstitute.org/22363/begging-…

If Iran's regime and Hamas are allowed to recover, their primary strategic objective will likely become to rearm as quickly as possible, and we will be right back at war again. gatestoneinstitute.org/22360/end-iran…

In a region too often dominated by arsonists, the United Arab Emirates stands for something rarer and far more valuable: order, courage, legitimacy, and the conviction that peace is not weakness, but strength. gatestoneinstitute.org/22361/the-uae-…

In March 2025, Zohaib Iftikhar, a Muslim, slit the throat of his coworker, Waqas Masih, a 22-year-old Christian, after accusing him of committing blasphemy by touching an Islamic textbook with "unclean hands." gatestoneinstitute.org/22354/pakistan…

Hamas is not some misunderstood political faction waiting to be coaxed into moderation. It advocates jihad (holy war) as an "individual duty [of all Muslims] for the liberation of Palestine." gatestoneinstitute.org/22358/us-talks…