How Trump’s ‘peace plan’ destabilizes Jordan
Trump’s plan for Middle East peace isn’t just a giveaway to the Israeli right-wing. It will also have negative impacts on U.S. regional partners.
Trump’s plan for Middle East peace isn’t just a giveaway to the Israeli right-wing. It will also have negative impacts on U.S. regional partners.
The disinformation campaign against a new United Nations database aims to legitimize the Israeli settler movement and those who illegally profit from it.
The time may have finally arrived for the Palestinians to disabuse themselves of the hope that the status quo Arab political order could help them.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t want to go to jail so he’s doing anything and everything he can to hold onto power.
A New York Times report raises serious questions about the official U.S. account of the attack on the K-1 base in eastern Iraq on December 27.
Arab and Palestinian leaders should stop the two-state charade and move toward a new paradigm of dignity and basic freedoms for the Palestinian people as human beings.
Israel is increasingly seen as a valuable partner in countering Iranian influence while pushing back against Turkey’s alleged ‘neo-Ottoman’ agenda in the Arab world.
This year, three foreign policy issues tightly linked to U.S. domestic politics stand out.
The UAE joined the Arab League statement rejecting the proposal, yet UAE officials in DC applauded it and attended the launch event at the White House.
The Trump administration’s new Israel-Palestine plan, which endorses nearly everything Israel wants, is not a peace plan at all.
Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ speech condemned Palestinians for terrorism and praised Israel for peace — all while ignoring Israel’s own violent history.
Thanks to a competitive influence racket and a lack of transparency, the real total is likely double that amount.
There’s nothing in this ‘plan’ that the Palestinians will accept.
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.
In the current political reality, Israeli annexation of the West Bank is the best gift opponents of the occupation can hope for.
The viability of the two-state solution evaporates as annexation of the West Bank becomes more normalized.
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.
Israel played no public role in Qassem Soleimani’s death but it sees an opportunity.
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.
Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah recently warned that retaliation for the Soleimani assassination would be aimed at U.S. military assets, suggesting that suicide bombers will be deployed.