Eric R. Terzuolo, at The Blogs

Apr 30, 2024, 8:00 PM

On the morning of April 30, I watched an appalling spectacle, as CNN reporter Sara Sidner interviewed, at length, someone identified as a Jewish student from Columbia University named Jared. Though I disagreed profoundly with his idealized portrait of...

Apr 5, 2024, 11:33 PM

Can we manage a US/Israel quid pro quo?

US President Joe Biden speaks at an event in Raleigh, North Carolina on March 26, 2024. (AP/Matt Kelley, File)

In a previous post, I suggested that US president Biden’s verbal escalation against Israel following the tragic death of the World Central Kitchen volunteers might presage stronger US efforts to leverage its aid to Israel to secure policy changes....

Apr 4, 2024, 7:05 PM

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When everything is an ‘outrage’ is anything truly outrageous?

Why did Pres. Biden use language usually reserved for adversaries in reaction to Israel's mistaken killing of food aid workers?

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Eric Terzuolo is an international affairs scholar and practitioner based in Washington, DC. Among his assignments as a US Foreign Service officer, he served at the US embassies in Beirut and Damascus (1983-84) and represented the United States at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2001-03). He has taught international relations at universities in the US and Europe and published widely, including in the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the National Interest, and The Hill.

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