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FDD"s Foreign Podicy

A national security and foreign policy podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

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00:49:31

Three Faces of Jew-Hatred

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2024/02/02

Jeffrey 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.

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00:45:39

Colonel Richard Kemp on Israel's Long War

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2024/01/26

Colonel 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 current Gaza war. Col. Kemp joins Cliff to discuss why Israel is not guilty of genocide and why Hamas, Hezbollah, and their patrons in Tehran are; the measures taken by Israel to reduce civilian harm — including

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00:57:03

Pacific Deterrence: An Update from Admiral John Aquilino

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2024/01/19

Senator 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 forces in the Indo-Pacific. The briefing’s topic? The threat from China and how we should respond. The two senators called Admiral Aquilino’s briefing “sobering” and said “Failure to maintain deterrence against

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01:08:33

Everything You Wanted to Know About Qatar But Were...

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2024/01/12

Host 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 Taliban, al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Islamic Republic of Iran (or, as Jon calls it, “the cantina scene from Star Wars”) — are aided and abetted by Qatar; the historical context of Qatar’s rise to a “permissive

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00:57:13

Strait Talk on the Houthis

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2024/01/05

The 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 organization, President Biden removed them from that blacklist.Since November, the Houthis have used Tehran-supplied weapons to attack more than 20 commercial vessels traveling through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait,

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00:44:49

Schadlow’s Strategies

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/12/29

Dr. 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 predecessors rejected much of it, she shares one Strategy “core which is very, very important” reiterated by the Biden administration.She expands on her sentiment in the Wall Street Journal that the uptick in

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00:49:36

How Warfare Evolves

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/12/22

General 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 modern-day warfare.They discuss the status of Ukraine's defensive war against Russia, including criticism that the U.S. provides only enough assistance to prevent Kyiv from losing the war but not enough to win

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01:00:30

Dan Senor Calls Me Back

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/12/11

Podcast 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 they have that many weapons stockpiled, or are they being resupplied?Is Israel achieving its militarily objectives? And how is it performing on the communications battlefield?Will Palestinians see this war

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00:54:54

Pizza, Policy, and Helicopters: A Conversation with...

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/12/08

Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO) represents Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, encompassing Aurora and adjacent areas. He's a former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient who deployed to combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now in Congress, he serves on the important House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and House Foreign Affairs Committee. He's also co-chair of the For Country Caucus, a bipartisan group of veterans in Congress fighting polarization and working together to get things

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00:52:57

What Hamas believes

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/12/01

During its October 7 invasion, Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than one thousand civilians in Israel. Its horrific acts of terrorism on that day also included mass rape, pillaging, the desecration of corpses, hostage-taking, and other unspeakable atrocities.Hamas has openly stated that it aims to repeat these atrocities and war crimes again and again and again until Israel is annihilated and Israelis exterminated. In a word: genocide.As for a two-state solution, Hamas has consistently rejected

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00:49:50

Dispatches from the Ongoing 10/7 War

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/11/24

Though the fighting is paused, Israel’s defensive war against Hamas continues. FDD Chief Executive Mark Dubowitz and former Israeli National Security Advisor Eyal Hulata — now a senior international fellow at FDD — just returned from Israel. Host Cliff May asks them what they saw, heard, and learned about Israel's ongoing war against Hamas, about Hamas’s allies – in particular Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah – and of course about the wizard behind the curtain: Iran’s rulers.They discuss known details of

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01:00:40

How Hamas Co-opts the Media

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/11/20

Although six weeks have passed since Iran-backed Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and butchered more than 1,200 innocent civilians while taking hostage another 240, this is just the beginning of Israel’s multi-front defensive war.One key battlefield: the information space.Historically, the odds of winning in this arena have not been in Israel’s favor. They don’t seem to be now, either.To understand why, host Cliff May and Israeli journalist and author Matti Friedman dissect both past and present

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00:50:32

Israel’s War on Terrorism

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/11/17

For an update on Israel's ground offensive in Gaza, AKA Israel's War on Terrorism, host Cliff May is joined by FDD experts Jonathan Schanzer — FDD Senior Vice President for Research and author of Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War — and FDD Senior Fellow Jacob Nagel, who previously served as Israel's National Security Advisor under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.They unpack IDF findings from inside (and underneath) the Shifa hospital complex in Gaza. They discuss the broader

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01:05:20

Shattered Peace

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/11/10

The October 7 atrocities committed against Israel and by Hamas terrorists with support from the Islamic Republic of Iran has frozen the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, as the clerical regime in Tehran doubtless anticipated. Now, the future of Saudi-Israeli relations may well depend on the outcome of Israel's war against Hamas. Host Cliff May is joined by top experts Bernard Haykel and Mark Dubowitz to discuss the status of Israeli-Saudi relations on October 6 versus now, including

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00:42:16

The War to End All Wars Against Hamas

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/11/03

Nearly a month ago, Hamas invaded Israel and murdered over 1,400 men, women, and children. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since World War II, which was also a war against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. The Israel Defense Forces are now in Gaza aiming to cripple Hamas’s military capabilities, and it’s a challenging mission. To discuss, host Cliff May is joined by three FDD experts: Bradley Bowman, Hussain Abdul-Hussain, and Retired Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel (former commander

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00:27:11

The (Against-the-Odds) Fight for Human Rights

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/11/01

Two of the world's top experts on human rights join host Cliff May to discuss the October 7 massacre in Israel — the atrocity carried out by Hamas and backed by Iran’s jihadi rulers — and about all that has followed since, in the Middle East, the US, Canada, and elsewhere. They discuss inaction by the United Nations and other international bodies charged with championing human rights not just in the aftermath of 10/7 but throughout recent history, a refresher on why calling Israel an apartheid state

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00:58:10

Studying War Some More

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/10/27

It is the opinion of your Foreign Podicy host, Cliff May, that Andrew Roberts is the world’s greatest living historian.In recent years, he has written groundbreaking biographies of Churchill, Napoleon, and King George. He’s a Bradley Prize winner, and Cliff is the one who nominated him. However, Cliff was outdone by His Majesty Charles the Third, as Andrew is now Lord Andrew Roberts — the sovereign has conferred upon him the title of Baron Roberts of Belgravia.Lord Andrew Roberts joins Cliff to

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00:45:08

Penetrating the Fog of Israel’s War

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/10/20

Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel has led to war. We have to think that’s what Hamas and its patrons in Tehran expected and very likely wanted.Is that because they believe they can win on the Gazan battlefields? Does Hezbollah, Tehran’s Lebanese foreign legion, plan to open a second front?Or do Israel’s many enemies in the Middle East, Europe, and here in America believe they can make Israel back off, agree to a ceasefire, and let Hamas live to kill Jews another day?What are Israel’s options? What

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00:42:18

The 10/7 War

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/10/14

Israel is at war with Hamas — a real war, not another “mow the grass” conflict.Hamas is one of the terrorist groups funded, armed, trained and instructed by the Islamic Republic of Iran.This war began on Saturday, October 7 when Israel was invaded by Hamas barbarians who mass-murdered young people attending a peaceful music festival, raped women, slaughtered babies, and took hostages, dragging them back to dungeons in Gaza. The list of Hamas atrocities and war crimes goes on and on.Over the days

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01:01:24

Ukraine in the Balance: A Conversation with Assistant...

FDD"s Foreign Podicy ·

2023/09/30

Americans, our elected officials in Congress, and individuals aspiring to be the next U.S. president are debating whether the United States should continue to support Ukraine. Some Republican presidential candidates are arguing against aid for Ukraine, while several others warn that abandoning Ukraine would be a costly mistake. In Congress, Republican leaders of key committees continue to support aid for Ukraine, but a vocal minority faction of the Republican party in the House of Representatives

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