How Trump’s Israel-Palestine ‘Peace Plan’ Will Kill the Two-State Solution
The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.
The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.
Lebanon is in serious finanical trouble and it doesn’t appear that anyone has a viable plan for a way out.
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister went to Brussels this week and reverted back to the kingdom’s hawkish anti-Iran talking points.
Why does the Trump administration keeping giving Mohammed bin Salman a free pass?
If local and foreign actors fail to follow through on promises made at the Berlin Libya conference, Libyans will pay the price.
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.
Israel must address the question of whether the original idea of the Zionist movement of a state that is both Jewish and democratic is not deeply oxymoronic.
The E3’s decision to trigger the Dispute Resolution Mechanism of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal could spell the end of that agreement.
Last month’s Islamic summit in Malaysia highlighted the risks and fragility of acquiescence to the repression of Muslims in China and India.
President Trump is continuing to paint himself into a corner where war with Iran is the only way out.
Cotton’s slur against NIAC has nothing to do with curbing foreign influence and everything to do with trying to discredit a voice that has pointed out the futility of Cotton’s preferred policy on Iran of nothing but punishment, isolation, and the threat of war.
This is classic McCarthyism: alleging or insinuating, on the basis of no good evidence, that Americans whose political views you dislike are acting in the service of a foreign power.
Resistance to Donald Trump must extend to a U.S. military machine that’s moving like a runaway train, undeterred by the human costs of its destruction.
The proxy war in Libya is increasingly colored by Emirati and Egyptian opposition to efforts to resolve divisions among the Gulf states.
Israel played no public role in Qassem Soleimani’s death but it sees an opportunity.
The post-Soleimani Middle East offers challenges and opportunities, but the U.S. does not seem to have a strategy to either mitigate or exploit them.
The E3 decision to trigger the Dispute Resolution Mechanism looks more like an attempt to shift the blame for its own impotence onto Iran rather than a necessary act of last resort to save the JCPOA.
Donald Trump’s drone war should remind us how dangerous it is when a president claims the legal authority to kill in secret and no one can stop him.
Despite bluster from the prime minister, Israeli military intelligence doesn’t believe Iran is the greatest threat to the country and it has assessed that Iran is not interested in a “quick breakthrough” to obtain nuclear weapons.
Tamim bin Hamad Al Than was the first head of state to visit Iran since the Soleimani assassination. It was his first trip to Tehran as Emir of Qatar.
The cycle of elections after the 2009 Green Movement is already being replaced from below by an emerging cycle of protest and violent counter-demonstration, an accelerating path to ruin without the usual offramp of elections to restore the peace.