Clifford D. May

Founder and President, @FDD | Foreign affairs columnist, @WashTimes | Host, "Foreign Podicy" podcast | Ink-stained wretch.

[FDD's Center on Cyber & Technology Innovation @FDD_CCTI]

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The UK’s cybersecurity chief warned that Britain faces what could prove to be an unprecedented increase cyberattacks in the coming months and urged “willfully blind” businesses to come to terms with the risk. https://t.co/LFVKpu1SFt

[Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi]

Ein Bruder meiner Mutter war Maoist, der andere Islamist. Beide kämpften für die Revolution im Iran. Beide hat sie getötet. Wenn ich heute die Bilder aus Paris und Berlin sehe, denke ich an sie. Und mir wird kalt.

Mein neuer Text in der @welt

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Palestinian dissident Amin Abed (who was violently attacked by masked Hamas enforcers in 2024) discusses indoctrination camps in Gaza and how teachers, abetted by horrific schoolbooks, tried to raise an entire generation to "embrace death over life".

[Adam Kredo @Kredo0]

NEW: California AG Mysteriously Reinstates Deadbeat Charity Controlled by Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin, Despite Missing $54 Million -- The questionable reinstatement came after nonprofit didn’t file tax returns over multiple years, @IANempowers finds https://t.co/hi8QwLZrcH

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

47 years ago today, Iranian radicals stormed the U.S. Embassy, taking 66 Americans hostage. Fifty-two endured 444 days of captivity.

Decades of Iran regime terror followed. The regime killed, maimed, tortured and kidnapped thousands of Americans.

In 2025 and 2026, America finally struck back.

[Shelby @Shelby_Wilder]

Russia dropped at least nine bombs on a school serving as a civilian shelter and humanitarian aid distribution center. Built just last year with EU funding, the facility had a reinforced basement designed to withstand attacks. But the double-tap attack, involving bombs carrying 1.5 tons of explosives, caused the structure to collapse and left a massive crater.
The victims included civilians who had gathered simply to receive humanitarian aid, as well as police officers and emergency rescue workers. Horrific.

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

Whether its Iran or Russia, our adversaries testing Western Civilization. We're going to have to respond in a serious way - and that means winning in Iran and winning in Ukraine.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

“Exit polls show that of the 51% of voters who said our support for Israel was "too strong," only 19% of even that subset of respondents were Republican. The vast majority of GOP voters said our support for Israel was "just right" or "not strong enough."

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

This is how you create leverage to end the war, not with lifting sanctions

[Hans Mahncke @HansMahncke]

Those who choose a nuclear Iran to avoid communism shall have both.

[Clifford D. May @CliffordDMay]

Real leaders go to war because they see more than three feet ahead of them. Trump understands what it would mean for the regime in Tehran -- which began its war with America in 1979 when it seized our embassy and took our diplomats hostage -- to acquire nuclear weapons and missiles that could deliver them to targets anywhere in the world.

Has President Trump explained this adequately and often enough? I'm sorry to say he has not. Which has allowed the "It's-a-stupid-and-unnecessary-war-of choice!" chorus to build a large choir.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Apart from occasions like the day after Pearl Harbor, is going to war ever politically popular? Doing so is a huge political risk and the lesson of the Iran conflict is that if you go to war, you must win and quickly. It's also a good idea not to pronounce the war over and won before it actually is.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Apart from occasions like the day after Pearl Harbor, is going to war ever politically popular? Doing so is a huge political risk and the lesson of the Iran conflict is that if you go to war, you must win and quickly. It's also a good idea not to pronounce the war over and won before it actually is.

[Daniel Rubenstein @paulrubens]

Saudis are providing a more responsible analysis of Israel’s war against Hamas than many members of Congress.

[Clifford D. May @CliffordDMay]

The protesters, immigrant-origin and others, have joined the hard multicultural left, which embraces a neo-Marxist oppressor/oppressed binary, treats grievance as virtue, and excuses violence in pursuit of “social justice.”

[FDD @FDD]

France is burning

Assimilation is happening, but into a culture of grievance and violence

@CliffordDMay in @WashTimes: https://t.co/tpqF5WGd6l

[Alberto Miguel Fernandez @AlbertoMiguelF5]

Not as much as you get paid to cover for Qatar.

[Jean-Claude JOSSART @JCLJOSSART]

Les pionniers juifs, dès la fin du XIXᵉ siècle, ont acheté des terres légalement, souvent marécageuses, désertiques et abandonnées, qu’ils ont réussi à faire revivre.

Des écrivains comme Mark Twain, visitant la région en 1867, décrivent une terre vide, désertique, misérable, où l’on ne croise presque personne. Mark Twain visite la région lors de son voyage en Orient qu'il raconte dans "Le Voyage des Innocents". Il décrit un territoire en grande partie sous-peuplé, rural, pauvre et négligé sous l'administration ottomane, marqué par des villes en déclin, comme Jérusalem ou Nazareth, et des campagnes particulièrement clairsemées.

La région, à l'époque, fait partie intégrante de l'Empire ottoman et est généralement désignée sous le nom de Sud de la Syrie dans l'administration ottomane.

Ce sont les Juifs, dans leur propre patrie historique, qui l’ont rendue féconde. Ils ont asséché, planté, construit, cultivé. Ils ont créé des emplois, attiré de la vie, de l’espoir, et… de la main-d’œuvre. Les registres britanniques l’attestent : l’immigration arabe vers la Palestine a explosé en parallèle de l’essor sioniste. Des familles sont venues d’Égypte, de Syrie, du Liban, de Transjordanie , attirées par les perspectives de travail et la prospérité naissante.

Ce n’est donc pas l’arrivée des juifs qui a chassé les Arabes, mais l’arrivée des Juifs qui a fait venir les Arabes. Le mensonge selon lequel la terre d’Israël appartenait aux Palestiniens, et que les Juifs auraient volée est devenu le socle de toute la propagande antisémite moderne et que l'Europe a eu la faiblesse d'accréditer.

Merci à @PNerval pour son partage particulièrement intéressant.

[Mick Ryan, AM @WarintheFuture]

Besides not being able to pay soldiers, not being able to advance on the ground, taking a disproportionate number of casualties compared to Ukraine, having committed between 100K-200K war crimes, murdering Ukrainian families in their beds and kids in schools, shutting down access to basic civil infrastructure, becoming a vassal to China and suffering over 1.5 million casualties, Putin still thinks he has a chance of victory…

[Adam Milstein @AdamMilstein]

New: IRGC releases a new AI propaganda video directly threatening France, Germany, and the UK

[Will Ricciardella @WillRicci]

“I wouldn’t call it a war.”

JD Vance said that in September when asked whether the Iran war would be over before the midterms.

He said there was no active shooting, with major combat long over.

Today he says the war cost Republicans the midterms and the “I told you so” crowd was right.

The effort to quiet the war began in June, when Vance sold a 60-day deal that collapsed in 3 weeks.

What followed was a blockade and sanctions, with the admin seeking to avoid major escalation before Election Day. Iran kept threatening shipping anyway and Republicans paid for it.

Now the people who sold the quiet war call the result proof the war was wrong to begin with.

Suppose Trump had secured the Strait, broken Iran’s ability to disrupt shipping and set their nuke program back years, all inside 6 months.

Do Republicans still lose Senate seats in Texas and Kansas?

If victory was impossible, name the constraint that made it so. “Iraq” and “neocon” aren't constraints.

The election is a verdict on the war Trump fought. A finished war was never on the ballot.

[Adam Kredo @Kredo0]

STUDY: Gaza's Population Grew Last Year - Faster Than Most - and Famine Never Arrived, Hamas's Own Figures Show, Debunking Claims That Most Deaths are Women and Children -- Figures 'absolutely rule out' much-hyped UN claim that major famine occurred https://t.co/3d3Xrle7Sp