Advertisements The attack on UNRWA is, in a sense, a microcosm of the assault on Gaza. On October 7, Hamas launched a brutal attack on Israel. It was atrocious, it was illegal. It was also something many of us had been warning was going to happen for years, because it’sContinue Reading
Advertisements The prospects of a renewed agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and the draconian sanctions the United States have imposed on the Iranian people have recently gone from almost zero to very promising and now, back to being on very shaky ground. There is one reason for all this fluctuationContinue Reading
Advertisements While Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was launching his assault on seven Palestinian NGOs on Thursday, Prime Minister Yair Lapid was pressing the United States closer to an attack on Iran that could send the entire region into an unprecedented conflict. The Iran deal has never been closer to revival, but significant obstaclesContinue Reading
Advertisements My latest piece for Responsible Statecraft explores the recent half-hearted attempt by the Joe Biden administration to re-open the US consulate in Jerusalem that had served as a headquarters for diplomatic contacts with the Palestinian Authority until Donald Trump absorbed it into the US embassy when he moved that officeContinue Reading
Advertisements For the past four years, far right-wing pro-Israel groups such as the Zionist Organization of America and the Middle East Forum have enjoyed unprecedented influence on the White House. More mainstream pro-Israel groups like AIPAC have still been influential, but less so than in the past as the administrationContinue Reading
