Yemen and U.S. Policy: Serious Rethinking Is Imperative
Warnings of a potential large-scale famine in Yemen following a Saudi naval and air blockade that the Saudis have agreed to ease have brought that country's dire humanitarian situation to the forefront...
View ArticleIran’s Hand and Iraq’s Kirkuk Offensive
With ISIS out of the way, underlying tensions have come to the surface. On Sunday October 15, the Pentagon encouraged Iraqi Security Forces and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Peshmerga to “avoid...
View ArticleGrowing Up in War Zones, a Review of Shooting Ghosts: A US Marine and a...
‘Shooting Ghosts’ is a joint memoir, depicting the friendship, experience of war and trauma and long road to recovery of two very different individuals. Finbarr O’Reilly is a veteran Canadian...
View ArticleIs Washington Ceding Syria to Russian Influence?
Goodbye ‘Timber Sycamore’: What will the end of the CIA program providing support to Syria’s rebels mean for the future direction of the Syrian conflict? President Donald Trump recently appeared to...
View ArticleSyria: Assessing the CIA Program
Recent news of the Trump administration's decision to end the CIA program of assistance to select Syrian rebel groups has sparked debate about the decision-making process and its soundness. In a report...
View ArticleIsrael’s Secret Arab Allies
TEL AVIV — United States and Israeli officials seem convinced that a regional peace agreement between Israel and the Arab world may be in the offing. On his recent trip to the Middle East, President...
View ArticleTrump’s Mideast Peace Plan Is Crashing Against Political Reality
Both Israelis and Palestinians are chafing under the Trump administration’s plans to revive the long-moribund peace process. Jared Kushner’s shuttle diplomacy to the Holy Land late last month may have...
View ArticleStormclouds over Syria
In the past five weeks, U.S. forces in Syria have struck directly at the Assad regime and its allies in Syria no less than four times. On May 18, U.S. warplanes struck regime and allied militia forces...
View ArticleU.S. Strategy and Israel’s Stake in Eastern Syria
The downing on June 18th of a Syrian Air Force SU-22 by a UA Navy F-18 Super Hornet over the skies of northern Syria sharply raises the stakes in the emergent stand-off in the country. This stand-off...
View ArticleThe U.S.-Iranian Confrontation on the Syria-Iraq Borders: Interview with an...
Besides the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces operations with U.S. coalition support to capture the Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa, the other major hot-spot to watch at the moment...
View ArticleTrump in the Holy Land
He came, he saw, he confused, but the American president still has a lot of hopeful fans in Israel. They think he’s their guy. JERUSALEM—Donald’s Trump flying circus landed in Israel yesterday on the...
View ArticleThe More Things Change, the More Iraq Stays the Same
Some of those watching the Tomahawk missiles lift off from the USS Porter on April 7, 2017, to strike Syria might have been reminded of similar scenes in January 1991, when the Tomahawk was chosen to...
View ArticleU.S. Strikes in Syria: This Isn’t Regime Change (But It Might Be)
"The American strike is the beginning of the procedures to remove Assad and bring him to trial." So wrote Abd al-Majid Sharif, head of an opposition-backed local council in northern Idlib, in response...
View ArticlePalestine’s Man in Washington
Husam Zomlot is surprisingly optimistic about the Palestinians’ prospects under President Donald Trump. RAMALLAH, West Bank — Husam Zomlot, a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...
View ArticleThe Mirage of the Mid-East “Moderate Alliance”
In recent years, it has become customary in much analysis of the Middle East emerging from Israel to divide Middle Eastern countries into a series of alliances or ‘camps.’ These camps are identified...
View ArticleInvitation: Symposium in Honor of the Late Prof. Barry Rubin: “A New Era?...
The Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs at IDC Herzliya cordially invites you to A Symposium in Honor of the Late Prof. Barry Rubin: “A New Era? Trump and the Middle East” Sunday,...
View ArticleIsrael Plays its Trump Card
Right-wingers in Jerusalem are ecstatic; Palestinian leaders are apoplectic. Welcome to a new era of the Arab-Israeli conflict. TEL AVIV, Israel, and RAMALLAH, West Bank — “We are entering a new era,”...
View ArticleIt’s Time for Realism in Syria, President-Elect Donald Trump
As investigators rush to connect the dots between the recent spate of tragic terrorist attacks in Berlin, Ankara, Zurich and Karak – we must not lose sight of the fact that in one month,...
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Tremor in Yemen
The Yemeni civil war, in which an Iran-supported Shia militia, the Ansar Allah movement (the ‘Houthis’) is clashing with a Saud- led coalition supporting the government of President Abd Rabbo Mansur...
View ArticleWhy Israel’s Defense Ministry Compared the Iran Nuclear Deal to Appeasing Hitler
Last Thursday, President Barack Obama once again defended the Iran nuclear deal, claiming that even Israel, “the country that was most opposed to the deal,” has “acknowledged that this has been a game...
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