Advertisements While Donald Trump himself desperately tries to undermine what little democracy we have left in the United States, his foreign policy team is, with somewhat less fanfare, triggering one long term problem after another in foreign policy. The obvious effort to prevent any peaceful resolution to the tensions withContinue Reading
Advertisements While touting the economic benefits he expects to emerge from the “Abraham Accords” and similar agreements for normalization that Israel has signed with several Arab states, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, “Everybody who joined the Abraham Accords will see the benefits for their own people. I am highlyContinue Reading
Advertisements The premier Palestinian pollster, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, presented his most recent poll of Palestinian public opinion at a virtual event hosted by the Arab Center in Washington, DC this week. Many of his findings–such as the fact that Palestinians overwhelmingly see the normalization of relations between Gulf states likeContinue Reading
Advertisements Benny Gantz was in Washington this week. His mission was to get as much as he could form the Trump administration to compensate for the sale of advanced military equipment to the United Arab Emirates as part of the normalization agreement signed between Israel and the UAE last week.Continue Reading
Advertisements In the latest episode of the ReThinking Foreign Policy podcast, I argue that the deals struck between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain this week in Washington not only are mislabeled as “peace agreements,” but are actually a recipe for greater conflict and hold no hope for real peaceContinue Reading
