Posts Tagged: Israel Saudi Arabia
Reform in Saudi Arabia: The Road Not Taken
Saudi Sheikh Salman Awdah, a popular but controversial religious scholar who has been mostly in solitary confinement since 2017, appeared in court recently only to...
Israel Needs America, But the Client State Era Is Over
JNS.org - President Joe Biden may have finally called Israel last week after waiting nearly a month since he was sworn in. But the foreign-policy...
Saudi Censorship Focuses on Internal vs. External Issues
The contours of public engagement in Saudi Arabia are evident in the contrast between passionate debates over issues such as a proposal to remove the sword...
Analysis: Saudi Overtures to Wary Biden Team Driven by Worries Over Iran, Economy
After months out of the global spotlight, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has swept back to centre stage with eye-catching diplomatic and economic moves...
From Mecca to Jerusalem: Does More Bloodshed Await?
JNS.org - The dispute that is now rocking the Muslim world is not about whether the Prophet Muhammad’s famous “Night Journey” actually took place or...
Netanyahu’s ‘Secret’ Trip to Saudi Arabia
JNS.org - Despite the purposeful fog surrounding it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US Secretary of...
Would Biden’s Middle East Proposals End Any Prospect for Saudi-Israeli Normalization?
The Abraham Accords were the product of a slowly developing structural shift in Middle East geopolitics that led to an alignment of interests between the...
Saudi Arabia Is Modernizing Fast
I recently took a trip to Saudi Arabia (SA) with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. I came away from this trip...
Israel Could Be Key to 2020 Middle East Geopolitics
The geopolitics of the Middle East are changing rapidly, and competition among the key players is at a peak. The region straddles the three continents...
Israeli Arabs Welcomed in Saudi Arabia: Diplomatic Breakthrough or Cynical Ploy?
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS)’s calls to invite Israeli Arabs to live and work in Saudi Arabia could be either a diplomatic breakthrough...
Israel’s Budding Relationship With a Group of Arab States
Though it is largely motivated by mutual concerns about surging Iranian imperialism, the strengthening of Israel’s relationship with the Cooperation Council for the Arab States...
A Flight Guide to Middle East Politics
A burning question in the Middle East today is the firmness of the tacit alliance among Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab Sunni states, centered...
A New Era in Israel-Gulf State Relations?
JNS.org - United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash was quoted by the English-language Abu Dhabi newspaper The National last week as saying, “Many, many years...
Does Saudi Arabia Really Want Regime Change in Iran?
Officially, both Saudi Arabia and the US, which withdrew last year from the 2015 international accord that curbs the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and imposed...
