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So Many Wars, So Little Time
Foreign Podicy - July 05, 2024 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAs the Israel Defense Forces appear to have almost completed their mission to defeat Hamas terrorists in Rafah, a Gazan city along the Egyptian border, the Islamic Republic of Iran is utilizing Hezbollah, its proxy in Lebanon, to attack – even more aggressively – Israel’s northern territories. B...
Another Guest of the Ayatollah: The Kylie Moore-Gilbert Story
Foreign Podicy - June 28, 2024 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAfter attending a conference she was invited to in the Islamic Republic of Iran in 2018, Australian-British academic Dr. Kylie Moore-Gilbert was arrested by the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of espionage which ...
Out of South Africa
Foreign Podicy - June 21, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSouth Africa has been in the news lately. Most recently, it had elections. There’s also this: The government of South Africa has filed a lawsuit under the Genocide Convention to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The indictment is not against Hamas whose terrorists invaded Israel ...
Turkey and the Neo-Sultan
Foreign Podicy - June 14, 2024 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsTurkey is a NATO ally, but not a reliable one. Under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey has developed close relations with authoritarian powers like Russia and China. Like his neo-imperialist friends, Erdogan longs for the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire which ruled much of the Middle Eas...
What America Misunderstands About the Islamic Republic of Iran
Foreign Podicy - June 07, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFilling in for host Cliff May this week is Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of FDD, and he’s joined by Karim Sadjadpour. They cover the full gamut of U.S. foreign policy on Iran, from looking back at President Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic and President Trump’s 2018 withdrawa...
Talk Like an Egyptian
Foreign Podicy - May 30, 2024 00:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with the Jewish state was Egypt. Following the Yom Kippur War of 1973, came the Camp David Accords of 1978 which provided both countries with tangible benefits. While the peace has never been warm, it has held. But since October 7, Egypt’s behavior h...
News from 1,000 BCE
Foreign Podicy - May 24, 2024 17:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHamas called its October 7 terrorist attack “Operation al Aqsa Flood,” suggesting a religious – rather than nationalistic – motive. The al Aqsa compound, the third holiest site in Islam, sits atop the ruins of both the ancient temples of the Jews. The first was built by King Solomon and was des...
Reviving the Arsenal of Democracy
Foreign Podicy - May 17, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmericans and our allies confront an extraordinary array of threats from an emerging “axis of aggressors,” consisting of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. That’s the bad news.The good news? Americans have an unmatched network of allies and partners with whom we can work to defend our common ...
Saving Private Sinwar
Foreign Podicy - May 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsA war is being waged against Israel by Iran’s rulers and their proxies, and they don’t hide their goal — they boast of it: annihilation. Extermination. Genocide. Now seven months into Israel’s defensive war in Gaza following the heinous terrorist attacks of October 7, Hamas is down but not out....
Turtle Baywatch
Foreign Podicy - May 03, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn the aftermath of World War II, the establishment of the United Nations seemed like a promising idea: global unity in resolving conflicts peacefully while promoting human rights. Surely everyone in the new international community will support such efforts, right? Wrong. U.N. corruption is obv...
The Road From Riyadh to Jerusalem
Foreign Podicy - April 26, 2024 16:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAli Khamenei, Iran’s longtime ruler, saw the possibility of normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia as a threat to his hegemonic ambitions. On Oct. 7, Hamas, one of Tehran’s proxies, invaded Israel and committed multiple acts of barbarism. That sparked a war and froze prospects for a new S...
Jerusalem and Tehran Consider Their Options
Foreign Podicy - April 18, 2024 22:30 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsLast weekend, Iran’s rulers launched a massive missile and drone assault on Israel. Though the attack was thwarted, it should be obvious that the Islamic Republic is willing to pursue its goal of “Death to Israel!” — not just by utilizing Arab proxies and pawns, but now also directly from withi...
The Thickening Fog of War
Foreign Podicy - April 12, 2024 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSix months after Iranian-backed terrorists perpetrated the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, Israel’s ground war against Hamas in Gaza, its conflict with Lebanon-based Hezbollah in Israel’s north, and Tehran’s multi-front shadow war against the Jewish state continue. For a status u...
Israel's Shadow War
Foreign Podicy - April 05, 2024 17:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe Israeli airstrike next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus on April 1 targeted several high-ranking members of Iran’s Quds Force — an elite division of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, which is designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization. Among those killed: top IRGC-QF comma...
Ronald Meets the Donald
Foreign Podicy - March 29, 2024 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPresident Reagan knew a detent with the Soviet Union wouldn’t win the Cold War. If we take off the gloves and force Soviet communism to compete with American democracy, he thought, the U.S. will prevail. In a phrase: “We win, they lose.” He was right. The U.S. won. The Soviet Union collapsed. ...
John Bolton’s New World Order
Foreign Podicy - March 22, 2024 20:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAfter World War II, the United States attempted to construct something new: a liberal, American-led, rules-based international order that would promote human rights, Enlightenment values, and democracy. Today, the dictatorial rulers of China, Russia, and Iran are attempting to establish somethi...
Ali Khamenei’s Nuclear Ambitions and Weapons of Mass Distraction
Foreign Podicy - March 15, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn Gaza, Israelis are fighting a ground war – and an underground war – against Hamas, a proxy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Israelis also are responding to missile attacks from Hezbollah, Tehran’s Lebanon-based foreign legion. These are serious conflicts. But they are not separate conflicts. ...
On Safari with Admiral Montgomery
Foreign Podicy - March 08, 2024 19:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsNext month marks 30 years since the onset of the world’s worst mass slaughter since the Holocaust: the Rwandan genocide. Among the forces that ushered in an end to the conflict was a military officer who would ultimately become Rwanda’s president: Paul Kagame. FDD’s RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery...
View of the World from Boston
Foreign Podicy - March 01, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsJoining Cliff for this episode is Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, whose first column appeared 30 years ago this week. Jeff’s career as a journalist has included interviews with Elie Wiesel and Mikhail Gorbachev, and on-the-ground reporting from such exotic locales as Cuba, the Korean DMZ, an...
The UN’s Support for Hamas’ War On Israel
Foreign Podicy - February 23, 2024 16:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGiven the mandate of the United Nations, you might think a genocide perpetrated by a terrorist organization against a democracy in the Middle East would be an opportunity for the UN to exercise its moral authority — perhaps even an obligation, considering the U.S. tax dollars that bankroll it. ...
The Battle in Rafah, the War with Tehran
Foreign Podicy - February 16, 2024 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAs Israel's defensive war in Gaza enters its fifth month, host Cliff May is joined by FDD experts retired Major General Amir Eshel and retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery to talk about the current state of the war including how many Hamas terrorists are thought to remain active on the battlefie...
A moment of decision for Americans
Foreign Podicy - February 09, 2024 18:30 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe U.S. is in a decisive moment. Harried by turmoil and challenges at home, many Americans look overseas and see a world on fire. Ukrainians are fighting for their lives against Putin, wondering whether the west will abandon them; Beijing is undertaking an unprecedented military expansion in p...
Three Faces of Jew-Hatred
Foreign Podicy - February 02, 2024 20:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsJeffrey Herf has a new and timely volume on the current moment. It’s title: “Three Faces of Antisemitism: Right, Left and Islamist.” He joins host Cliff May to discuss the multiple manifestations of Jew-hatred – a growth industry since the terrible pogrom of October 7, 2023.
Colonel Richard Kemp on Israel's Long War
Foreign Podicy - January 26, 2024 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsColonel Richard Kemp has spent three decades fighting terrorists and insurgents around the world, including as commander of British forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has been present during each conflict between Israel and Hamas since 2008 and has been in Israel since the beginning of the curre...
Pacific Deterrence: An Update from Admiral John Aquilino
Foreign Podicy - January 19, 2024 16:25 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSenator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MI) are the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Armed Services Committee. On January 11, they issued a noteworthy joint statement after receiving a briefing from Admiral John Aquilino, the commander of all U.S. military fo...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Qatar But Were Afraid to Ask
Foreign Podicy - January 12, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHost Cliff May is joined by FDD experts Jonathan Schanzer and Richard Goldberg to discuss Qatar donning the facade of ‘mediator’ and ‘peacemaker.’ The reality is rather different. They unpack Doha's bad behavior, including how a plethora of bad actors — e.g., Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the ...
Strait Talk on the Houthis
Foreign Podicy - January 05, 2024 16:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe October 7 attack against Israel was carried out by Hamas with support from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Other Tehran proxies include Lebanon-based Hezbollah and Yemen-based Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthi rebels. Although President Trump designated them as a foreign terrorist organi...
Schadlow’s Strategies
Foreign Podicy - December 29, 2023 16:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsDr. Nadia Schadlow previously served as the U.S. national security advisor for strategy, and she led the drafting and publication of the 2017 National Security Strategy (and in record time). She shares what it was like to formulate such a strategy while in the Trump White House and while her pre...
How Warfare Evolves
Foreign Podicy - December 22, 2023 19:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsGeneral David Petraeus joins the show to discuss his new book (co-authored by Andrew Roberts, our recent episode with him here), Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine. Primarily through the lenses of Ukraine and Israel, Cliff and the General examine what has evolved into moder...
Dan Senor Calls Me Back
Foreign Podicy - December 11, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsPodcast host and author Dan Senor joins Cliff to discuss his new book, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World, and Israel's defensive war in Gaza. Among the complexities they ponder: How does Hamas continue to rain rocket fire across Israel — do...
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