Middle East
Trump on Truth Social: Israel’s Centrality
Analysis of President Trump’s (Truth Social) Posts During First 100 Days in Office: Israel Ranks High on the U.S. President’s Agenda.
New Publications in the Field
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Biden Middle East Trip: Where National Polarization Meets Party Polarization
Bipartisan congressional support for Israel is eroding and being replaced by political barbs that use Israel a weapon to score political points.
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
US Ponders Agonizing Handshake in Saudi Arabia It Wants to Avoid
Biden’s expected visit to Saudi Arabia shows that even a great power cannot be guided by moral considerations alone. How is Israel struggling with this dilemma?
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Should Israel be apprehensive following the US abandonment of Afghanistan?
Following the recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, Harvard Prof. Stephen Walt penned an article entitled: “It’s Time to End the ‘Special Relationship’ With Israel.”
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
Iran as a Challenge to the Jerusalem-Washington-American Jewry Triangle
Israel should focus on a quiet dialogue with the Biden administration, in which it will clarify its expectations and its positions on the diplomatic effort vis-à-vis Iran, while reserving the right to take action against the Iranian nuclear program
Opinion Articles
Opinion Articles
No substitute for Oslo and the ‘new Middle East’ – opinion
For a moment, I felt that the voice of the late president Shimon Peres was coming from the mouth of Netanyahu. Published in the Jerusalem Post. The agreement to normalize relations between Israel and Sudan – another important step adjoining the agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain – fuels the debate over whether a “new Middle East” is…
In the Media
In the Media
Don’t Give Up on the Two-State Solution
By: Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, The American Interest, July 14, 2020 Unilateral Israeli annexation would be a mistake, but Peter Beinart’s one-state solution is an approach that compounds one mistake with another. We wrote our book, Be Strong and of Good Courage, because we feared that the path Israel was on would lead to a one-state outcome. By default, continuing to…