January 29, 2020
With reformers unpopular, low voter turn out in next month’s parliamentary elections could mean a big win for conservatives.
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January 29, 2020
If New START expires next year, there will be no legally binding, verifiable caps on U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals for the first time since 1972
January 29, 2020
There’s nothing in this ‘plan’ that the Palestinians will accept.
January 29, 2020
The U.S. may have exacerbated the power imbalance further in Israel’s favor but it will not have compelled Palestinians to abandon their own rights and freedoms.
January 28, 2020
The benefits of diplomacy are greater and longer-lasting, but not as tangible.
January 28, 2020
There are real issues with military readiness but throwing more money at weapons systems isn’t part of the solution.
January 27, 2020
Foreign influence in American democracy has been around a lot longer than Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
January 27, 2020
In the current political reality, Israeli annexation of the West Bank is the best gift opponents of the occupation can hope for.
January 26, 2020
A window of opportunity to end the Yemen war may be closing. There is a chance to break the cycle but it will require regional and international effort.
January 26, 2020
To ease the anxieties in the Gulf Arab states, U.S.-Iran rhetoric needs to scale down. Gulf Arab officials should continue to urge restraint on both sides.
January 25, 2020
The New York Times published an op-ed by FDD staffer Richard Goldberg and didn’t bother to tell anyone that FDD paid him a salary while working for Trump’s National Security Council.
January 25, 2020
It is possible that de-escalation between the U.S. and Iran might be achieved through international diplomacy. The alternative is a regional or global war.
January 25, 2020
If George W. Bush and Barack Obama sowed the seeds of the American chaos machine, Donald Trump represents the first true madman at the wheel of state, thanks to his volatile temperament, profound ignorance, and crippling insecurity.
January 24, 2020
While the U.S. muddles along in the Middle East, Russia and the UAE are building a stronger bond.
January 24, 2020
A diplomatic path is still open for Iran and the U.S. to resolve tensions and come to agreement.
January 24, 2020
The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.
January 23, 2020
Lebanon is in serious finanical trouble and it doesn’t appear that anyone has a viable plan for a way out.
January 23, 2020
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister went to Brussels this week and reverted back to the kingdom’s hawkish anti-Iran talking points.
January 23, 2020
Why does the Trump administration keeping giving Mohammed bin Salman a free pass?
January 22, 2020
If local and foreign actors fail to follow through on promises made at the Berlin Libya conference, Libyans will pay the price.
January 22, 2020
It looks like the Blob is starting to come around to the idea that maybe the U.S. approach to the Middle East for the last 20 years or so hasn’t been all that great.