Middle East
A regional perspective on this summer’s Temple Mount crisis.
Wiping the slate clean.
A strategy perfected by Hizballah and Islamic Jihad.
What should America do next?
How American leaders in World War II picked up deliberately anti-Semitic policies from their Vichy French partners in North Africa.
In declining to restore the rights of North African Jews in the wake of their 1942 invasion, did the Allies act with “deceit and duplicity,” or were their reasons defensible?
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.