I have a professional obligation to share the recommendations for what can should and must be done differently; I share this not because I expect to see any of them implemented but as a contemporaneous account of available, publicly known paths not taken internationalpolicy.org/publications...
The Biden Administration can take steps to stop the fighting, end the nightmare faced by Palestinian civilians and Israeli hostages, arrest the spread of large-scale war in Lebanon and possibly with I...
Interesting that not one of the 5 requires anything of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran. Until their genocidal intent and terror proclivities are abandoned or defeated these other ideas will make no difference.
Not sure how to phrase this appropriately, but after Afghanistan withdrawal I get the sense that Netanyahu knows that the Biden administration and the Democratic Party can be annihilated by the US political press in an instant
In case it is not clear from the line "our recommended steps for the Biden Administration to take to stop the fighting," the suggestions are ones made by a US think tank for the US president/admin. If you read it and wonder why it doesn't call for Iran etc to change behavior, you misread it's point.
This, by my boss, is as clear eyed and damning assessment as you may get from foreign policy types about where blames falls for the US role in all this newrepublic.com/article/1866...
What’s happening in the Middle East was enabled by a president with ideological priors, aides who failed to push back, and a cheerleading media establishment.