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May 5, 2025, 5:54 AM

Symbolic Alliances vs. Operational Utility in Policy

Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has confronted a strategic landscape defined by encirclement, hostility, and diplomatic marginalization. In response to these conditions, Israeli strategists adopted the Periphery Doctrine during the Cold War, seeking alliances with non-Arab, geopolitically peripheral...

May 2, 2025, 12:38 AM

Is Jordan the Next Domino in Iran’s Regional Game?

As instability deepens across the Middle East in 2025, Jordan—long regarded as a bastion of pragmatic statecraft and relative calm—is edging toward a critical breaking point. Escalating violence in Gaza and the West Bank, Iranian proxy activity along its...

Michael Ettedgui

Mar 16, 2025, 11:37 PM

The Arab League’s Delusional Plan for Gaza

In early March, the Arab League released its plan to rehabilitate the Gaza Strip. It is delusional and should be rejected by peace-loving nations. The plan is essentially a well-funded yet poorly-considered real estate project, which would result in...

Mar 13, 2025, 6:18 AM

A post-October 7 two-country solution

I used to feel passively supportive of an official Palestinian country. After all, the Gaza Strip has been judenrein since 2005; didn’t that create Palestine, by population default? Who else was living there? Since October 7, 2023 however, it’s painfully...

Richard J. Annen

Mar 2, 2025, 12:13 PM

The ‘Egyptian Solution’ can be part of the blueprint to end the conflict

On February 25, 2025, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid presented a post-war governance plan for Gaza titled “The Egyptian Solution.” As with any viable peace plan, it is premised on the removal of Hamas from power in Gaza. Lapid...

James M. Dorsey

Feb 26, 2025, 9:20 PM

Israeli security demands threaten to upset Syria’s apple cart

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has reduced his security toolkit to overwhelming military force and landgrabs. Following on the heels of Israel’s devastation of Gaza, weakening of Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, and assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the West...

James M. Dorsey

Feb 22, 2025, 1:17 AM

US President Trump’s Gaza shock therapy rocks Arab boats

By James M. Dorsey US President Donald J. Trump’s shock-and-awe Gaza therapy appears to be working. Infuriated by Mr. Trump’s assertion that the United States will take ownership of the Strip, resettle its 2.3 million inhabitants in Egypt, Jordan, and elsewhere,...

James M. Dorsey

Feb 20, 2025, 6:40 PM

Trump can only play both sides against the middle so long

Second-guessing US President Donald J. Trump is a tricky business. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump took many by surprise when he seemingly handed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the ethnic cleansing of Gaza on a silver platter. Mr. Trump’s gift to...

James M. Dorsey

Feb 15, 2025, 9:57 PM

Trump puts ‘might is right’ principle on steroids in Gaza and Ukraine

Might is right. That sums up US President Donald J. Trump’s vision of a 21st-century world order. Barely a month in office, Mr. Trump has not wasted time creating building blocks for his worldview. Mr. Trump’s efforts to end fighting in Ukraine,...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Feb 14, 2025, 2:23 PM

Ignoring the Future: Bibi, Trump, and the Rest of Us

Our world is suffering from a paradoxical illness: “Future Amnesia” – the inability or unwillingness to think (and plan) for the what’s coming up the pike, especially mid-to-long-term. First, I’ll provide two recent, important examples from Israeli and American...

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