All Policy Analysis by Robert Satloff

A recent essay touting a “one-state” approach to Israeli-Palestinian issues is more about eliminating the world’s only Jewish state than offering real solutions to complex regional problems.

A near-term breakthrough may be unlikely, but President Biden is well positioned to apply his energy toward negotiating a historic deal that establishes peace and advances American interests.

The vow of “never again” taken by virtually all nations after the Second World War remains unfulfilled.

کارشناسان انستیتو واشنگتن بعد از یک سفر مفصل گروهی به پنج شهر پادشاهی عربستان، دیدگاه‌هایی از ملاقات‌های خود با مقامات دولتی، دینی، تجاری، و فرهنگی ارائه می‌کنند.

The second week of November 1942 has much to tell us about the region’s geopolitical centrality, its enduring political currents, and its role in the future of the Jewish people—not to mention the evolution of American foreign policy.

برنامه هسته‌ای ایران به‌ سرعت پیش می‌رود، و آمریکا کار چندانی درباره آن نمی‌کند.

چهار دیپلمات کارکشته و پژوهشگر از خلیج فارس، اسرائیل، و واشنگتن درباره اهداف و خطرها و همچنین فرصت‌های رییس‌جمهوری آمریکا برای موفقیت در خاورمیانه بحث می‌کنند.

President Biden has a powerful moral imperative for ending his feud with the crown prince: to ensure that the kingdom’s gradual pivot away from extremism doesn’t falter.

“This will not stand,” the president said after Iraq invaded Kuwait, but no such fortitude has been evident in response to Iran’s continued aggression.

گزارش‌های خبری مبنی بر موفقیت قریب‌الوقوع مذاکرات هسته‌ای ایران سبب خاطرجمعی است اما به احتمال زیاد توافق حاصله در بسیاری موارد نومیدکننده خواهد بود.

The head of the first Arab party to join an Israeli governing coalition answers questions about the country’s domestic and foreign policies, including its approach to Palestinian issues and diplomacy with Arab states.

The Washington Institute’s executive director reflects on this year’s wave of remembrance events in the region, including his remarks at two landmark programs in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

در منطقه‌ای که عامه مردم برای دستیابی به بهداشت و درمان، مسکن، شغل و آزادی بیان فریاد اعتراض سر می‌دهند، لزومی ندارد پیشرفت در دموکراسی انتخاباتی همیشه اولویت نخست باشد.

اگر ایالات متحده آمریکا به حمله پهپادی در سواحل عمان پاسخ ندهد، ممکن است به جای کمک به پیشرفت مذاکرات برجام به آن آسیب بزند.

By failing to provide essential information on sourcing, the reporting environment, the victims’ proximity to legitimate military targets, their family connections with combatants, and other matters, the article presents a skewed, sensationalist image of the Gaza conflict.

Hamas may not have realized it when firing its first salvo against Jerusalem, but the challenge of its rockets didn’t end with a ceasefire—the administration now faces complex and urgent decisions that could affect the direction of its overall foreign policy.

دستیار سابق وزیر خارجه و مسئول خاورمیانه از ۲۰۱۹ تا ۲۰۲۱، درباره دوره تصدی خود در این سمت و نحوه تحول چالش‌ها و فرصت‌های منطقه همزمان با آغاز دولت بایدن صحبت می‌کند.

Four factors have gradually legitimized honest regional discussion of the Holocaust and made traditional statements of denial and distortion less acceptable.

The immediate crisis seems to have ended for now, but the stunningly public Hashemite feud is a reminder that Jordan’s stability needs tending and is not something to be taken for granted by Washington or Amman’s regional friends.

The administration’s instinct to cancel Riyadh’s blank check is right, but engaging a flawed partner is not the same as confronting a determined adversary.