Posts Tagged: US Israel
Israel: From Strategic Liability to Strategic Asset
"Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong.” -- Walter Russell Mead In...
Blinken Says US Will Help Foster Further Israeli Ties With Arab States
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged on Friday to encourage more Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel as he hosted a virtual meeting with Israeli and...
French-US Tensions at UN Over Middle East Violence
i24 News – Ongoing violence between Israel and Gazan armed groups has stirred up a diplomatic stand-off at the United Nations between France and the...
US: Israel Has Legitimate Right to Self-Defense, Loss of Life Lamentable
JNS.org - The US State Department said that Israel has a right to self-defense in light of the barrage of rockets being fired on Israel...
The US Brings Israel Into CENTCOM
Though the move will take some time to go into effect, the Pentagon’s recent decision to relocate Israel to the area of responsibility (AOR) of...
Israeli and American Defense Establishments Agree on Accelerated Defense Deliveries
JNS.org - Days after Defense Minister Benny Gantz returned to Israel from the United States to hammer out a new procurement arrangement ahead of an...
Kerry Personifies the History of State Department Failures in the Middle East
It was no surprise that most of the Arabists and famous peace processors were silent following the landmark peace agreements signed between Israel, Bahrain, and...
Democratic Presidential Candidates and US Military Aid to Israel
Three of the four leading Democratic presidential candidates recently said they would consider cuts in US military aid to Israel as a means to pressure...
The Unique US Mindset on Israel
The US mindset on Israel -- unlike the US attitude towards other countries -- is a bottom-up phenomenon: a derivative of the US public worldview,...
US Should Recognize Israel’s Sovereignty Over the Golan Heights
Whenever an incident or an idea related to the Middle East arises, former State Department officials are quick to comment. Those who are Arabists can...
Israel and the US Stand Side-by-Side
JNS.org - Ever since Israel and the United States struck a strategic alliance at the end of the 1960s, the world has seen that alliance...
Israel’s Patience in Gaza Will Pay Off
JNS.org - Since last week, Hamas has been concerned with the nature of the covert Israeli mission in Khan Yunis. Things may have deteriorated during...
The US Foreign Policy Establishment Doesn’t Have the Answers on Mideast Peace
At a September 18 Washington, DC panel discussion hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Lebanese journalist Joyce Karam enthusiastically deemed a report on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process “honest and...
What Role Should the US Play in the Peace Process?
All US Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives -- initiated by Democratic and Republican presidents -- have failed. They were doomed to failure by the tendency to downplay the complex intra-Arab/Muslim...
