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
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
Advertisements Whatever becomes of the empty deals Serbia and Kosovo signed with the Trump administration (and they are falling apart quickly), involving Israel was aimed at pleasing Trump’s evangelical Christian base. Israel itself may not even have had a deep involvement with this move, but it still demonstrates something aboutContinue Reading
