One size doesn’t fit all. Triumphal bombast may suit normalization with the UAE, but it won’t work with Saudi Arabia, Djibouti or Iraq. With Sudan,…
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Saudi leaders like Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have focused on the benefits of normalization with Israel. But the recent violence highlighted the downside, which…
Netanyahu has squandered a position of strength, where Arab rulers had to reckon with Israel as an immovable object, into a new one of public…
Trump bartered the Sahrawi people as a kickback to Morocco to normalize its relations with Israel. But Biden can challenge Rabat’s occupation – and help…
Kosovo courted Israel, unrequited, for a decade. This is how Yasser Arafat, Trumpist transactionalism, the ‘Muslim terrorist’ phantasm, appeals to Holocaust memory and fear of…
The U.S.-brokered Morocco-Israel normalization deal is yet more proof that Trump’s much-derided transactional foreign policy actually works. The quid pro quo is good for America,…
For decades, Palestinians forgot a crucial mission. Focused on Western audiences and outflanked by an increasingly sophisticated Israel hasbara machine, they failed to settle in…
All of Israel’s enemies have rotten regimes. Israel is far from being clean. But because of this, would you not sign an agreement with Iran?…
Trump brought U.S. foreign policy into dangerous alignment with the expansionist Israeli right. Biden has to rebuild American leverage – starting with reconstructing Washington’s relationship…
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The friendship on display at the ceremony was extraordinary. Normalizing relations between Israel and the Arab states, a warm peace, should be a stimulus, not…
Netanyahu’s no-conditions ‘peace for peace’ doctrine, legitimized by Trump, is great for the Gulf. But it’s irrelevant for Israel’s conflicts with its actual neighbors, not…
The media obediently promoted and amplified an illusory ‘breakthrough’ stage-managed by the Trump administration – while this week’s real peacemaker, Qatar, was sidelined Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The fears are understandable, but misplaced. Normalization with Gulf states hurts Iran, and strengthens Israel’s defense far more than any plane Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The Trump-brokered Israel-UAE love-in was a nauseating publicity stunt that the media obediently promoted and amplified. It is not a peace deal Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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The old ways of hatred and wars have gained us nothing. Joining the new path of Arab-Israeli peace and cooperation would strengthen the Palestinians –…
The UAE-Israel deal is great news for the United States. This is how the Emiratis, and Jared Kushner, helped Netanyahu climb down from his annexation…
Israel doesn’t even bother hiding behind the sacred cow of ‘security’ anymore to justify controlling Palestinians’ lives. Even three year-old kids are a threat to…