What Donald Trump Gets Right about Israel and the Arabs
The Middle East has too often been a screen onto which outsiders project their own psychodramas.
October 17, 2019
What Donald Trump Gets Right about Israel and the Arabs
The Middle East has too often been a screen onto which outsiders project their own psychodramas.
With a brisk history of American policy toward the Jewish state, Michael Doran highlights the failure of those who have seen a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict as paramount to U.S. interests, and the success of those who have instead made a clear-eyed assessment of Middle Eastern geopolitics. Too often, writes Doran, “Israel’s conflict with the Arabs has functioned as a screen onto which outsiders project their own psychodramas”: a skewed perspective that led to the failed Oslo Accords and to the misguided condemnations of American moves like the relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem. (Free registration required.)
October 17, 2019
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