Joe Biden Can’t Overturn His Predecessor’s Middle East Policy—Even If He Wants To
The region has changed, and American influence is waning.
January 25, 2021
Joe Biden Can’t Overturn His Predecessor’s Middle East Policy—Even If He Wants To
The region has changed, and American influence is waning.
Over the weekend, the incoming national security advisor Jake Sullivan spoke by phone with his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat, and—according to a White House statement—expressed his commitment to “building on the success” of the Abraham Accords. This and other pronouncements suggest that, when it comes to foreign policy, the Biden administration won’t attempt to reverse everything done in the past four years. Yet the appointment to key positions of Obama-administration alumni responsible for the Iran deal, and the policy of creating “daylight” with Israel, is not reassuring.
January 25, 2021
The Rising Tide of Islamist Violence in France, and the Anti-Semitism at Its Core
“You are two of the things I hate most: French and Jewish.”
Qatar’s Reconciliation with Its Neighbors Might Not Last
So long as Qatari support for radical Islam continues, the underlying problem remains unsolved.
A Defense of Reason Rooted in the Talmudic Conception of Law
Realism, shmealism.
How a Group of Holocaust Survivors Defied the British Navy to Sail from Italy to the Land of Israel
The People on the Beach.