Robert Satloff is the Segal executive director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and its Howard P. Berkowitz chair in U.S. Middle East Policy.
The status quo is worth sustaining, but the Oslo Accords are part of it.
In his new book, a veteran foreign-policy official and analyst provides a riveting 40-year history of the idea that human rights should be more than two nice-sounding words.
How American leaders in World War II picked up deliberately anti-Semitic policies from their Vichy French partners in North Africa.
In 1942 a band of Algerian Jews risked all to help the Allies invade North Africa. Then Washington betrayed them. Thus was born modern American Middle East policy.
Yes, Israel’s popular right now. But most of its new friendships are based on assessments of common interest—and such assessments can change overnight.
Good. In two words: not good. But despite the murkiness, there are things it can do.
We don't need overhyped claims about the collapse of Sykes-Picot to see that Israel has more than enough bad options to grapple with.