Geopolitics

Beware of Dangerous Advice: An Urgent Letter to President Biden

They’re giving Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran propaganda victories they don’t deserve, weakening Israel and America, and holding Israel to standards America and other democracies never meet.

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American policymakers have ideological blinders on

By treating politics as transactional, Americans keep underestimating most Palestinians’ apocalyptic, all-or-nothing zealotry.
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Israel’s Gaza war is self-defense, no apologies needed

Every liberal democrat knows that the moral imperative when fighting a just war is to save yourself, your comrades, and your country
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Biden’s sanctions set ominous precedent for the settlement enterprise

Not only will it likely cause economic disruption to additional West Bank residents and organizations, but it could also pave the way for other countries to take similar measures.
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Netanyahu cannot risk losing America’s affection

The US is the only great power we can count on – in every aspect of our national security.
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Moderate Israelis Need Moderate Leaders – Not Messiahs

Israeli leadership and the general public must choose a moderate political path that takes into account Israel’s security interest and image in the world
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The Palestinian Path Untaken

The industrial peace complex could benefit, should it choose, by acknowledging what lies at the heart of this conflict
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Getting upset with the world is not a strategy

Israel’s geopolitical reality is complicated by 4 factors that may be harnessed to the country’s advantage with careful statecraft
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Dennis Ross: On Gaza, ‘Netanyahu’s Far-right Ministers Aren’t Living in Reality’

Ambassador Dennis Ross has played an important role in U.S. Middle East policy in recent decades, being the point man in the peace process in both the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.
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What’s the End Game for Gaza? Netanyahu Must Spell It Out

Since Benjamin Netanyahu was elected Israel’s prime minister for the first time in 1996, he has built up a career as someone who has consistently been dragged into various diplomatic, political and peace initiatives by the different American administrations with which he has worked.
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