All Policy Analysis by رابرت ستلوف

As soon as next month, Israel’s new government could approve plans to annex a substantial portion of the West Bank. The trigger for this comes from Washington—a shift by the Trump administration to recognize Israel’s new self-declared borders. But that still doesn’t explain why. What might Israel gain by discarding

Even if Netanyahu steps away from the precipice this month, the problem will not dissipate until the White House stops incentivizing annexation with offers of American recognition.

A potential Israeli push to annex parts of the West Bank threatens to upend a reasonably tolerable and surprisingly stable status quo to achieve dubious benefits at significant cost.

His father, King Hussein, had always wanted it that way, he just never told anybody. Except me.

The best ideas in the plan will be delegitimized by its overall failure, because on each count the administration has stretched a laudable principle beyond recognition.

This modest proposal—to broaden the scope of Holocaust remembrance by including the names of Muslims killed at Auschwitz—appeared this weekend in English and Arabic in Saudi, Egyptian, and Israeli media outlets.

چه می‌شود اگر مقامات آمریکایی از این موقعیت استفاده کنند و از یک طرف ثالث مورد اعتماد خود ‌ــ‌مثل عمان یا سوئیس‌ــ‌ بخواهند آمادگی رهبران ایران را بسنجد و ببیند آماده ابتکار دیپلماتیک بی‌سروصدایی هستند؟

تنها راه حفظ مزایای بلندمدت طرح صلح کوشنر این است که این طرح را کنار بگذاریم.

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Safeguarding America’s widely agreed interests in the Middle East requires a substantial presence, as does the region’s tendency to export insecurity.