Updates & Analysis


The Action Update: Three Simple Rules, Conflict Edition

In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we’re going to deviate from our regularly scheduled programming and offer three simple concepts the foreign policy intelligentsia needs to understand:

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The Action Update: Congress Fiddles as Israel Fights

Nearly 150 days into the war in Gaza, Congress has yet to advance emergency military assistance for Israel. We are rapidly approaching the moment where Congressional inaction coupled with the Biden administration’s election season pressure campaign will make our elected officials handmaidens to atrocities. In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we’ll discuss the latest on the aid and Israel’s rapidly heating up northern border. But first, the Palestinian Authority is playing musical chairs again, so we’ll start there.

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The Action Update: If you want peace, prepare for war

In this week’s edition, we discuss the most recent Congressional moves concerning emergency aid to Israel and provide a brief update on the war in Gaza and the wider conflict between Iranian extremism and the West.

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The Action Update: CUFI Action Fund on CBN

This week, CUFI held the annual Gathering of Leaders in San Antonio. During this two-day event, CUFI’s Board and top leadership learned about a wide range of issues from a host of speakers. Next week, we’ll be back with our traditional Action Update, but for today, we encourage you to take just a few minutes and watch this CBN interview with our Chairwoman, Sandra Parker, during which she discusses the Biden administration’s reaction to news that a dozen UN employees, whose agency receives American taxpayer dollars, participated in the 10/7 Hamas Massacre.

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The Action Update: Washington’s Fantasy vs. Israel’s Reality

There is an enormous gulf between Washington’s discussions about what’s going on in the Middle East, and what’s actually going on in the Middle East. The consequences of this disconnect are significant. In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we’ll discuss Washington’s fantasies, Israel’s reality, and the politics breaking American foreign policy.

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The Action Update: The Consequences of Chaos & Looking Ahead

In this week’s edition of the Action Update, we look at what happens when Washington stops functioning, update our readers on our state-level efforts, and offer a bit of wisdom for those seeking to understand the day after Gaza. So, let’s get into it. 

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The Action Update: God Hates a Coward

This past Sunday marked the 100th day since thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded Israel, rampaged through the country’s south, murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping hundreds more. In this edition of the Action Update, we will discuss the current status of the conflict, from Gaza to Washington.

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The Action Update: Hezbollahstan

In recent days, we’ve seen significant developments on Israel’s northern border, in the West Bank and in Gaza. Elsewhere around the Middle East, we are seeing a noteworthy uptick in terrorist activity targeting Western interests and shipping lanes important to the world economy. And behind it all are the Tyrants of Tehran and their Russian partners in (war) crime.

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The Action Update: We Are the Antidote to Antisemitism

As war rages in the Gaza Strip, antisemitism is reaching fever pitch here throughout the world, and the Pentagon has announced a new operation to confront Iran-backed Houthi terrorists’ attacks on international shipping.

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The Action Update: Education Dictates Values

Israel has been engaged in intense combat with Hamas for more than two months. During this time, here in the United States we have seen a wide swing against Israel through misleading media coverage and numerous displays of antisemitism. But despite that, America is standing with Israel.

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