As Americans watch the increasing violence and bloodshed in Israel, they are bewildered at how quickly, after years of calm, mayhem has escalated. The Trump administration brokered the Abraham Accords, “a series of historic peace agreements between Israel and Arab-Muslim countries — the most significant breakthrough for peace in decades,” wrote former VP Mike Pence […]
The Abraham Accords: Peace in Any Language
Because of their hate for Donald Trump, many of the “political science professoriate” will not partake in “any significant study to the peaceful changes the President has helped initiate in the Middle East.” But as James Freeman notes in the WSJ, “Mr. Trump’s Abraham Accords have normalized relations between Israel and a number of Muslim […]
Ground Breaking Peace in the Middle East
During a talk at the Brookings Institution, John Kerry, then secretary of state for the Obama administration, stated, “Palestinian peace was a precondition for Israel to make peace with its Arab neighbors,” as reported by the WSJ. According to John Kerry: There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world. I want […]
On President Trump’s Watch: I Say Shalom; You Say Salaam
In a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden this week, Sheikh Abdullah in Zayed (UAE minister) and Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel PM), along with President Trump, signed the Abraham Accord. The object of the Abraham Accord is to restore normal diplomatic ties between the UAE and Israel with the goal of making progress for historic […]
Do You Know About Trump’s Middle East Success?
In The American Spectator, Jed Babbin calls the president “Trump the Peacemaker.” Babbin imagines the possibilities created by the President’s successful negotiations of peace in the Middle East. He writes (abridged): If the Trump transformation of the Middle East continues, it could quickly bring in Oman, Kuwait, and eventually Saudi Arabia, all of which are […]
Did Israel Attack an Iranian Oil Tanker?
In all the back and forth over who attacked what in the Persian Gulf, Stratfor has suggested that perhaps Saudi Arabia was not involved in the attack on an Iranian tanker there. Instead, write Stratfor analysts, it may have been Israel. They write: An incident involving Iran’s Sabiti oil tanker on Oct. 11 in the […]
Has Everything Blown Up in Bibi’s Face?
At The American Conservative, Barbara Bolan explains the predicament Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself in today. She writes (abridged): Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s old bag of tricks failed him in Israel’s second round of elections Tuesday. It now appears that the electorate has rejected his divisive rhetoric, attacks on the judiciary and press, […]
Trump’s Quandary with Netanyahu and Israel
At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan cautions against America giving up the right to avoid war by ceding control to another country, namely Israel. Buchanan is worried that Israel’s desire to fight Iran could pull the United States into a war that wouldn’t benefit America in any way. He writes (abridged): President Donald Trump, who […]
Propagandists Lies – Why Not Boycott Israel?
Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, two members of the Democratic Squad, despite wanting to boycott everything Israeli, are taking their act to Israel. In what William McGurn (WSJ) calls “a great gift to Donald Trump,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to let them in. Roger Simon in The Federalist lists some things the […]
U.S.: Let Israel and Saudis Go It Alone.
At The National Interest, Ted Galen Carpenter writes (abridged): Given the political division of the Korean Peninsula and the tensions it has generated over the past seven decades, the danger of an armed conflict involving North Korea and its neighbors is ever present. America becoming entangled in such a conflict because of its security guarantees […]
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