Emanuele Ottolenghi is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the author of Iran: the Looming Crisis (Profile Books: 2010)
Is Jemima Khan using relativism to defend polygamy?
Ms Khan has found a way to justify polygamy in the name of multicultural integration and, bizarrely, the right of women to equal protection under the law
- 24 April 2013
Palestine's strangely stubborn state of mind
Half a century of lost battles taught mightier powers to change their mindset – think of Germany after two world wars. The Palestinians never seem to learn
- 8 December 2012
Wake up call for Swedish social democrats: Julian Assange is friendly with dictators!
The Left's judgement of Assange, from the start of the Wikileaks saga, has been far too lenient
- 23 August 2012
Why crunch time is coming for Israel and Iran
Those who claim Israel will take its biggest gamble since its independence in an operation that could at best gain time and at worst leave Israel as an isolated and weakened country, might be right after all
- 21 August 2012
Of masterstrokes and apoplectic strokes
Netanyahu has strengthened his hand significantly but not for the reasons spouted by the left
- 9 May 2012
Iran’s march for "martyrs" to Jerusalem
Participants in the Global March to Jerusalem approach Israel's borders today and, in the process, become weapons in Iran's foreign policy arsenal
- 30 March 2012
Austerity for Europe – increased EU aid for the Palestinians
The EU is set to blunder into a new funding fiasco for the Palestinians. Why should the European taxpayer be asked to throw yet more money at a hopeless cause?
- 27 November 2011
Now is the time for EU leadership: Deflecting Palestinian unilateralism at the UN
Insisting that the Palestinians and Israelis come back to the negotiating table under the aegis of an Obama peace plan, Washington has indicated its break from reality and has accordingly abdicated leadership on this issue. This opens the door for EU leadership that could disarm the dangerous partisan atmosphere triggered by Palestinian unilateralism.
- 2 September 2011
It's madness to raise foreign aid while cutting back at home
Foreign aid is often counter-productive. But why on earth are we increasing it while preaching austerity at home, asks Emanuele Ottolenghi.
- 21 July 2011
Gaza flotilla flops
This year's anti-Israel hate fest at sea is being sunk by countries that once backed it. Emanuele Ottolenghi from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explains why.
- 8 July 2011
A nuclear armed Iran could be the price of the Libya campaign
Iran is emerging as the great beneficiary of a bombing campaign over Libya with little strategic benefit to the West, says Emanuele Ottolenghi.
- 7 June 2011
The Libya mission is turning into an embarrassing mess
NATO is in disarray, Britain and France lack the resources on their own, America is retreating, and we don't know who the rebels are. Welcome to our strategy in Libya
- 16 April 2011
Iran looks on as the West wrestles with contradictions over Libya intervention
The West may have thought it had no choice but to intervene in Libya, and may have been right. But the wider consequences, especially for Iran, need to be understood
- 5 April 2011
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