• Islamist Watch director Sam Westrop; writer Jordan Cope; and fellow Abdullah Bozkurt – Uncovered the malign Qatari regime’s support of jihadist groups through its ostensibly benign Eid Charity, including $90 million worth of grants to the Palestinian territories, and $23.4 million to an Al-Qaeda-connected group in Turkey.
   
• Sam Westrop and writer Martha Lee – Exposed Masood Khan, Pakistan’s new ambassador to the U.S., as a dangerous radical working to support Islamists in the West; and uncovered a Pakistani influence operation – which utilizes lobbyists, congressmen, terror supporters, and well-organized grassroots networks of American Pakistani Muslims – to advance Islamist interests in the U.S. while attacking India, using Kashmir as a pretext.
   
• MEF director Gregg Roman – Prescribed a path to Palestinian defeat by understanding the symbolism that prisoners hold for the Palestinians, and humbling them with much stricter conditions and no more benefits. “Once they are captured and convicted of terrorist activities, they should feel the cold reality of personal failure and defeat.”
   
• Islamist Watch deputy director Benjamin Baird and Martha Lee – Uncovered the Council on American-Islamic Relation’s (CAIR) lesson plan for teachers ahead of the 20^th anniversary of 9/11, which whitewashes the Islamist role in the attacks.
   
• Martha Lee – Exposed a new Washington, D.C. think tank, Democracy for the Arab World Now (NOW), as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, defending extremists and justifying religious totalitarianism under the cover of promoting human rights and democratic ideals, and utilizing officials with connections to Al Qaeda and Hamas networks.
   
• Writer Rebecca Molloy – Uncovered evidence that eBay’s founder Pierre Omidyar funds, through the Roshan Institute (run by his Iranian-born mother), politicized, anti-American, and anti-Israel scholars at universities across the globe, often to the benefit of the Tehran regime.
   
• And then I – Explained, through 21 historical examples, why wars are endemic in the Middle East: military loss usually does not damage defeated Arab rulers; to the contrary, it usually benefits them, even in the face of the population’s suffering. “With stakes so low, give war a chance and hope for the best.”

1. Charitable Bequest – to remove assets from a taxable estate and make a larger contribution than may be possible during one’s lifetime.
2. Life Insurance – to gain a charitable income tax deduction for the cash surrender value and premiums of a life insurance policy.
3. Retirement Plan – to reduce the size of a taxable estate, avoid income taxation on those funds, avoid income and estate taxes, and increase the amounts passing to heirs.
4. Charitable Trust – to see philanthropy in action, making transfers to heirs at a lower tax cost and designating beneficiaries to receive payments for life or a term of years. Three types of Charitable Trusts: Charitable Remainder Trust, Charitable Lead Trust, Retained Life Estate.

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