Saudi Arabia
Current efforts are exacerbating the problem.
The challenges are surmountable, but not at any cost.
A 75-year diplomatic boycott has gotten them nothing; continuing is unlikely to help.
What Riyadh, Washington, and Jerusalem all want.
A path to normalization between Riyadh and Jerusalem.
Washington would do well to encourage, but not interfere.
Tehran continues its offensive against Israel and the United States.
Dynastic unions can heal long-held grievances.
The mullahs can already produce eight nuclear bombs in three months.
Preventing direct flights to Mecca would be a step backward.
Open ties between the two nations are in everyone’s interest, but it will take serious intent and deft maneuvering from America to get there. Is the administration up to it?
The latest public-opinion survey.
The Abraham Accords can be a strategic instrument in America’s competition with Russia and China.
Three possible outcomes, all bad.