Middle East
Is Trump following in Obama’s footsteps?
Instead of acting as liberators, the WWII Allied forces in North Africa ended by propping up fascism, and leaving the Jews to their fate.
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.
Why Americans should care.
Much as Israel doesn’t.
America needs to form as broad an international coalition against Tehran as possible—and simultaneously to develop a strategy for the Middle East as a whole.
Iran’s economy remains inefficient and inadequate, and Russia’s is in even worse shape. To push both countries back, the only thing America needs is the will to do so.
The two countries’ shared Middle East interests don’t extend much beyond keeping Assad’s blood-drenched Syrian regime in power. That presents an opportunity.
While we do need to push back against Iran throughout the Middle East, it’s unrealistic to expect Tehran to have no influence.
The emirate solution.
The policies of the Obama administration led to carnage in Syria, regional chaos, and the rise of Iran and its alliance with Russia. Can the momentum be reversed—without going to war?
A declaration of intentions.
As long as Palestinians are led by selfish and corrupt leaders, the two-state solution is unrealistic.
Bursting the Canaanite myth.