Facing up to Israel’s destabilizing behavior
The Netanyahu government’s primary goal is to keep Iran forever ostracized, sanctioned, and loathed.
The Netanyahu government’s primary goal is to keep Iran forever ostracized, sanctioned, and loathed.
Everything the outgoing administration is doing today seems coordinated to obstruct the Biden team tomorrow.
Israel certainly wants the Saudis to get on the normalization bandwagon, but the monarchy has other, domestic considerations.
Because it’s all about Iran — that’s why neoconservative think tanks here had their thumb on the scale the entire time.
Those who oppose labelling BDS antisemitic, but imply that BDS is illegitimate, create space for cynical efforts to suppress criticism of the Israeli gov’t.
Biden will need to reverse Trump’s policies quickly if the idea of two states has any chance of surviving.
Saudi Arabia and UAE will have to face that this unconventional and largely transactional presidency is coming to an end.
Here are four critical issues that must be addressed when a new administration takes over.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s bad faith attacks are standard fare, and unfortunately so was the response from her challenger, Rev. Raphael Warnock.
Biden has signaled constructive steps forward but there are also signs of a retreat to the pre-Trump status quo.
Trump may be replaced as president, but his hawkish Middle East policies will live on in Washington.
Tehran too could have integrated itself among regional states but instead it chose confrontation.