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Lawrence J. Haas

Lawrence J. Haas is a senior fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council and served as communications director to Vice President Gore during the Clinton Adminsitration. Readers may write to him at AFPC, 509 C Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20002;

Most Recent Articles by Lawrence J. Haas:


UN’s Human Rights Council reeks of hypocrisy; US was right to leave

UN’s Human Rights Council reeks of hypocrisy; US was right to leave WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Human Rights Council’s recent vote to investigate Israel for its response to “protests” on its Gaza border highlights everything that’s wrong with this hypocritical body, and why the United States was right to leave it.
- Thursday, July 5, 2018

U.S. gives $400 million a year to group spurring terrorism

U.S. gives $400 million a year to group spurring terrorism WASHINGTON, D.C. — When Palestinian terrorist Rajaei Haddad was released from Israeli prison on April 10 after serving 20 years for the murder of yeshiva student Gabriel Hirschberg in Jerusalem’s Old City, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was there to greet him while members of Abbas’s Fatah Party hailed him “a leader, a hero, and a fighter.”
- Sunday, May 13, 2018

Iran soon will be able to kill 90 percent of our population. Some deal!

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just four days after U.S.-led global powers and Iran completed their nuclear deal, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the “Death to America” mantra that has pervaded the regime since its establishment in 1979, stating, “The entire country is under the umbrella of this great movement.”
- Monday, August 17, 2015


Obama’s hesitation in Ukraine endangers Eastern Europe

WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the United States understandably focused on Islamist threats to the civilized world, Russia’s Vladimir Putin continues to whittle away at the post-Cold War architecture of global relations by ignoring his commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and boosting support for Russian-backed rebels.
- Tuesday, January 20, 2015

CIA report encourages terrorists, betrays U.S. allies

WASHINGTON, D.C.--Though they preside over the world’s most important nation, our leaders in Washington can be startlingly oblivious to the audiences beyond our shores that watch and listen closely to whatever we say or do.
- Friday, December 19, 2014

Putin’s aggression against Ukraine won’t be stopped by mere sanctions

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The President sets U.S. foreign policy but, with regard to Ukraine, Congress has an opportunity to push the United States in a more fruitful direction by approving bipartisan legislation from the Senate that would give Kiev $350 million in military aid to help it fend off Moscow’s advances.
- Thursday, September 25, 2014


Obama's one-sided policies demonstrate total contempt for Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks raised questions as to why Washington invested so much in such a misbegotten venture, but they brought one salutary result — they laid bare the Obama Administration’s hostility to the Jewish state.
- Friday, May 9, 2014

Boycott is academically dishonest and a triumph for bigotry

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. scholars’ mounting boycotts of Israeli academic and cultural institutions are ironic indeed, for they contradict everything that higher education is supposed to stand for — they are wholly ignorant and profoundly narrow-minded.
- Friday, April 4, 2014


U.S. must stand fast with Israel to assure peace

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Peace — true peace — is more than the absence of war, more than a temporary respite from continual conflict. True peace rests on trust between parties, and it’s rooted in on-the-ground conditions that ensure its viability.
- Wednesday, November 20, 2013







Don’t go wobbly, Mr. Obama

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States faces a cold reality: even stepped-up U.S. and Western sanctions of recent weeks have not convinced Iran’s radical regime, which is driving ever closer to nuclear weaponry, to shift course.
- Friday, February 17, 2012

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