Advertisements While most eyes have been on Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, the US Special Envoy for Antisemitism, Deborah Lipstadt, made her own sojourn to those lands. She claims that the two trips are not connected, but that claim is obviously either a lie or theContinue Reading
Advertisements As Joe Biden prepares to head to the Middle East, it is important to understand the policy goals he is pursuing on this trip. It is perhaps most important to understand that the long-term agenda here was started not by Biden, but by Donald Trump. That’s whose policies weContinue Reading
Advertisements Anyone who says there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans need only look at the Supreme Court, women’s rights, and LGBTQIA rights to see what nonsense that is. But that’s all domestic policy. On foreign policy it’s a very different story. The differences between Republicans and Democrats in internationalContinue Reading
Advertisements It’s already quite clear that the Joe Biden administration is focused–to the extent they’re paying attention to the Palestinians at all–on restoring the status quo ante that existed before four years of Donald Trump. Some may have thought that his anger at Netanyahu might have meant some sort ofContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest piece for Responsible Statecraft, I look at the implications of the United States moving Israel from its European command to CENTCOM, putting together with regional Arab states and advancing the formation of a coalition to confront Iran. I also look at how Saudi Arabia and Israel areContinue Reading
