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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyThe Israel/Palestine Stain on Biden’s Foreign Policy Legacy
Oct 23, 2024Gregory AftandilianEvery US president wants to leave office with a positive legacy. Some do so to draw attention away from a scandal; others hope that the history books will trea…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyGaza, the American Elections, and the Fallout of a Disaster
Sep 19, 2024Charles W. DunneThe United States, sometimes considered the adult in the room when arbitrating international conflicts, has proved to be more of an adolescent when it came to …
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyNetanyahu’s Demagoguery Before Congress over the Gaza War
Jul 31, 2024Khalil E. JahshanIn his convoluted and divisive presentation, Netanyahu made an emotional attempt at rallying American support behind his puttering ten-month military campaign …
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Palestine/IsraelEducation and DevelopmentThe US Academy and the Destruction of Gaza’s Education System
Jul 3, 2024Hanna AlshaikhAfter Columbia University students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on April 17, similar ones formed on campuses not only in the United States but worldwide…
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Saudi ArabiaUS Foreign PolicyDifficulties Facing a US-Saudi Security Agreement
Jun 25, 2024Kristian Coates UlrichsenThe search for a US-brokered Saudi-Israeli deal to normalize relations has assumed outsized significance in the administration’s approach to the Middle East.
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyDesperately Seeking Support for Biden’s Plan on Gaza
Jun 18, 2024Khalil E. JahshanSecretary of State Antony J. Blinken just concluded another intensive diplomatic trip to the Middle East, his eighth to the region since the beginning of the G…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyBiden’s Warmed-over Ceasefire Proposal
Jun 6, 2024Khalil E. JahshanIn the midst of what the White House touted to supporters as a significant update of his administration’s diplomatic efforts regarding the eight-month-old unab…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyBiden’s Gaza Announcement: What to Make of the Bizarre Spectacle
Jun 4, 2024Yousef MunayyerOn May 31, President Joe Biden announced what he described as a “comprehensive new proposal” offered by Israel for ending the war in Gaza that would be “a road…
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Whitewashing Biden’s Policy on Gaza
May 21, 2024On May 13, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan addressed the media in the White House press room on current developments in the Middle East, focusing on th…
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Congress’s Crackdown on Campus Protests and the Threat to Civil Liberties
May 15, 2024It has been a month since student protests started at Columbia University with the establishment of a protest encampment on April 17. In response, students aro…
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American Student Protest Movements, Then and Now
May 10, 2024Watching university students protest in the United States over the past three weeks begs the question of whether they will end American support for Israel’s ge…
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The Gaza War Still Can Decide the American Presidential Election
Apr 24, 2024Latest polls indicate that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are in a dead heat in the presidential race at this point in the campaign, whi…
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Hezbollah-Israel War Is Becoming Inevitable, and the United States May Not Prevent It
Apr 10, 2024Patricia Karam evaluates the possibility of a war between Hezbollah and Israel that would be a major escalation in the Middle East as the United States tries t…
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Gaza, Biden, and an American Intifada
Mar 27, 2024As Israel’s devastating Gaza invasion wears on, tensions between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are spiking, endangering the…
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Gaza and the Battle of Negations in the United States (and Beyond)
Mar 14, 2024At no point in the history of the Middle East has the Palestinian-Israeli conflict collided with US domestic politics in such a visceral way as today. As multi…
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YemenUS Foreign PolicyInstead of Houthi Designation, the United States Should Embrace a Comprehensive Approach
Feb 28, 2024Afrah NasserOn January 17, the United States designated the Houthis in Yemen, also known as Ansar Allah, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in response to t…
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LevantUS Foreign PolicyUS Troops to Stay in Syria and Iraq but Perhaps Not for Long
Feb 22, 2024Gregory AftandilianIn recent weeks, there have been meetings in Washington and in Baghdad about the presence in Iraq and Syria of US troops, whose official mandate is to aid loca…
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Palestine/IsraelUS Foreign PolicyCongress Works to Give More Aid to Israel, None for UNRWA
Feb 16, 2024Ethan Mayer-RichOn February 13, the Senate voted 70-29 to pass a $95.3 billion national security supplemental package (H.R.815) to provide additional security assistance to Uk…
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The Biden Administration’s Confused Response to Israel’s Rafah Operation
Feb 15, 2024At the center of US coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza in recent days is the rift between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding …
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How the Gaza War Is Upending US Middle East Policy
Feb 2, 2024As the Israel-Hamas war threatens to pull the United States into a broader conflict that would potentially upend US standing and policy, peace and stability in…
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From Gaza to Yemen and Back: The Biden Administration’s Confused Strategy
Feb 1, 2024On January 17, the Biden administration announced it was adding Yemen’s Houthis (also called Ansar Allah) to the US terrorist list. The move returned the rebel…
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The Biden Administration Is Strong in the Red Sea but Weak in Gaza
Jan 24, 2024After enduring weeks of regional tension, including Houthi rebel attacks on shipping in the Red Sea and on American commercial vessels, the Biden administratio…
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Deciphering Blinken’s Unguarded Optimism
Jan 18, 2024The Biden administration announced its first Middle East initiative of the new year on January 4, 2024, by dispatching Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the…
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Important Considerations for the Middle East in 2024
Jan 10, 2024The October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s subsequent invasion of the Gaza Strip will play a major role in shaping what unfolds in the Middle East in 20…
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The Israel-Hamas War in American Politics
Dec 21, 2023Any rational discourse in the United States about the Israel-Hamas war increasingly has been subject to political litmus tests, as Israel supporters and Republ…
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Are Israel and the United States on a Collision Course?
Dec 13, 2023In a December 8 story that seems to have received little attention in western press coverage of Israel’s expanding military campaign in Gaza was this nugget of…
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Gaza, the Ruin of US Policy, and a Transformed Middle East
Nov 16, 2023The Biden administration must act quickly and offer specific plans and timelines to shape post-conflict expectations and establish its priorities with the part…
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US Military Presence in the Middle East: Deterrence and Retaliation
Nov 14, 2023The United States has recently bolstered its military presence in the Middle East as the Israeli war on Gaza escalated. Bolstering this presence is meant to de…
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The War on Gaza: Deterrence or Inching toward Direct US Involvement?
Oct 17, 2023The official American position has passed through three phases in less than ten days. First, like Israel itself, Washington and its western allies suffered fro…
