Posts Tagged: Trump Middle East
Left Off the Itinerary, Reinforced for Battle: How Trump’s Gulf Gambit Secretly Fortified Israel
President Donald Trump’s four-day Middle East tour, which included stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates -- but conspicuously omitted Israel --...
A Week to Celebrate in the Middle East, as Israel and the World Look Forward
Mark Twain once said, “All generalizations are false, including this one.” Well, I wonder what Twain would have made of Raphael Patai’s 1973 book, The...
Trump Should Be Wary of the Mirage in Doha
As President Donald Trump prepares for his upcoming visit to Doha -- the first by a sitting US president in more than two decades --...
Azerbaijan State Oil Deal With Israeli Gas Field Signals Growing Role in Trump’s ‘New Middle East’ Vision
A deal struck this week between Israel and Azerbaijan's state oil company, SOCAR, has underscored a geopolitical reality often overlooked: Azerbaijan's emerging role as a...
Trump Says Israel Must Have ‘Victory’ in Gaza as Middle East Rises to Top of Transition Agenda
US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said that Israel must achieve "victory" against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza before the war can end,...
Trump’s Flaws Enabled His Middle East Successes
For those of my particular political persuasion, who might be called liberal conservatives or conservative liberals, the spectacle of the Trump presidency has not been...
Post-Trump: Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East
JNS.org - When the dust settles on the Trump presidency, historians will try to assess Donald Trump’s reshuffling of the Obama legacy toward the Middle...
Trump Scores Diplomatic Deal With Middle East Allies Before Election
President Donald Trump on Thursday managed to pull off a rare victory for US diplomacy in the Middle East ahead of his Nov. 3 re-election...
A Historic Peace Opportunity That Must Be Seized
On May 14, 1948, a few hours before the declaration of Israel’s establishment, Chaim Weizmann, soon to become the Jewish state’s first president, sent an...
The Trump Effect
The initial two and a half years of President Donald Trump’s national security policy have departed sharply from those of President Barack Obama, his predecessor...
Should Trump Rethink His Approach to Egypt and the Middle East?
Several weeks ago, Cairo discreetly notified Riyadh and Washington that it was suspending its participation in MESA (the Middle East Strategic Alliance) -- the US-Saudi...
Will Trump’s Withdrawal from Syria Endanger the Region and Israel’s Security?
JNS.org - A decision by Donald Trump to pull some 2,000 American special force troops from eastern Syria will provide a boost to Russia and...
Why the Trump Peace Deal Can’t Ignore Jewish Refugees
JNS.org - For some weeks now, governments and opinion-makers have been waiting with baited breath for Donald Trump to unveil his peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We’ve had...
Trump Cites Middle East Progress, but Mum on Peace Plan
President Donald Trump said on Monday that a lot of progress had been made in the Middle East, but he declined to say when the...
