Advertisements After Israel broke confidence by reporting secret talks with the Libyan foreign minister, the repercussions are still being felt in that troubled and divided country. While Israel acted shamefully, the lion’s share of the blame, as usual, belongs to the Biden administration. This piece at Mondoweiss looks at the contextContinue 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
Advertisements Israel did not sign “peace deals” with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain today. You can’t make peace between countries who have never been at war. And the notion that they are only now establishing a relationship is laughable. Clandestine relationships between Israel and the Gulf states have existedContinue Reading
Syria is just the latest example of why we must take advantage of the opportunity a post-Trump world presents to rethink our foreign policy from the ground up. American interests are best served by working with allies and promoting international law and human rights. That’s a far cry from what U.S. foreign policy has been, but those are ideals most Americans would support.Continue Reading
