The U.S. Should Discourage Its Arab Allies from Reconciling with Syria
Providing loopholes to American sanctions won’t end the war.
October 11, 2021
The U.S. Should Discourage Its Arab Allies from Reconciling with Syria
Providing loopholes to American sanctions won’t end the war.
On October 3, King Abdullah of Jordan had a phone conversation with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad—the first between the two heads of state since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. And nearly three years ago, the United Arab Emirates reopened its embassy in Damascus. Washington, Josh Rogin reports, is refraining from pressuring friendly countries not to normalize relations with the Syrian dictator, who was once a pariah in the Arab world:
October 11, 2021
Needlessly Condemning Israel Hasn’t Bought France the Good Will of Its Restive Muslim Population
Double standards on terrorism.
Time for Stopping the Islamic Republic’s Nuclear Program Is Running Out
The U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan scared Tehran out of building a bomb. It’s not scared any longer.
Remembering a Great Rabbi Who Brought Religion and Science Together
Moshe Tendler saw the hand of God under the microscope.
Osip Mandelstam Reclaimed His Jewish Heritage When He Rediscovered His Poetic Voice and Turned against Soviet Tyranny
But a new biography argues that the poet wasn’t very Jewish or even very anti-Soviet.