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U.S. Foreign Policy: This Is Us
Last weekend a pair of horrifying massacres in the U.S. cities of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio sent shock waves through the country. The outrage was so powerful that even President Donald Trump had...
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Progressive Foreign Policy In A Post-Trump World
With impeachment filling the air and the 2020 election season starting to rev up, it’s a natural time to start thinking of a post-Donald Trump world. While defeating Trump is no sure thing despite his...
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Leveraging U.S. Aid To Israel Won’t Be So Easy
Not so long ago, a presidential candidate showing any hint that she would consider reducing aid to Israel was considered political suicide. Those days are over. This week, both Elizabeth Warren and...
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Pompeo Unveils Dangerous US Approach to Israeli Settlements
In the latest reversal of long-standing United States policy in the Middle East, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared this week that Washington no longer views Israeli settlements in the West Bank...
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Biden may be imperfect, but he’s the only option for those concerned about...
President Donald J. Trump shakes hands with the 44th President of the United States, Barack H. Obama during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Jan. 20,...
View ArticleOver 100 U.S. Organizations Urge Biden to Support Equality for Palestinians
CODEPINK organized a joint letter from over 100 diverse organizations to Joe Biden, calling on him to support Palestinian rights. ReThinking Foreign Policy joined If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace,...
View ArticleIs ending the Saudi-led blockade on Qatar now the right answer?
The list of foreign policy blunders and failures in just three and a half years of the Donald Trump administration is remarkably long. But one of his first–the green light to the Saudis to try to...
View ArticleIsrael-Morocco agreement plants long term seeds of conflict
While Donald Trump himself desperately tries to undermine what little democracy we have left in the United States, his foreign policy team is, with somewhat less fanfare, triggering one long term...
View ArticleHow will Joe Biden deal with an emboldened Israel?
Joe Biden is, hopefully, being reminded from every corner that the White House he will be going into in 2021 is a very different one than the one he left in 2017. While he seems unlikely to put too...
View ArticleObama, Palestine, and Defund the Police
I had an uneasy feeling of déjà vu. Not a precise echo, but more like the same response to a different, but similar, situation. The feeling came over me when I heard former President Barack Obama...
View ArticleJ Street’s Modest Recommendations for Biden on Israel-Palestine
For the past four years, far right-wing pro-Israel groups such as the Zionist Organization of America and the Middle East Forum have enjoyed unprecedented influence on the White House. More mainstream...
View ArticleIsrael and Saudi Arabia Set To Push Biden Away From the Iran Nuclear Deal
In my latest piece for Responsible Statecraft, I look at the implications of the United States moving Israel from its European command to CENTCOM, putting together with regional Arab states and...
View ArticleUS lawmaker Gregory Meeks shows his true colours on Palestine
When Jamaal Bowman defeated Eliot Engel in a NY primary last year, there was some hope that the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee might be less hawkish on Israel-Palestine....
View ArticleHere’s a Reminder: The Iran Nuclear Deal Was a Very Good One
When people say “The Iran Deal isn’t perfect, but…” they undermine efforts to defend the deal. No deal is ever perfect. It’s a general rule that nothing is. This statement is defensive and extremely...
View ArticleHow hawkish Democrats are impeding Biden’s Middle East policy
I will absolutely admit that Joe Biden has far exceeded my expectations in his domestic policies, and only justified some of my fears. But on foreign policy, it’s a very different matter. Prioritizing...
View ArticleBiden’s unacceptable decision on refugees
[Update: After a fierce outcry, the White House issued a statement saying it would raise the number of refugees it expects to allow to enter the United States in 2021 form the pathetically low number...
View Article‘Equality’ is finally breaching Washington’s debate on Israel-Palestine
More on the new report from the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and US/Middle East Peace Project. In my piece for Responsible Statecraft I looked at the policy implications of the new paper. In this piece...
View ArticleDemonizing China Is Bad Policy for Everyone
Professor Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard recently wrote an interesting piece for Foreign Policy where he posed the question of whether the rest of the world might prefer...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s legacy: Allying with US hawks and fomenting division in Washington
Netanyahu is out and very little will change as a result. Israel’s apartheid policies, inside and outside its internationally recognized borders, will continue. Creeping annexation will continue....
View ArticleLapid, not Bennett, is the Israeli leader to watch in Washington
With the long reign of Benjamin Netanyahu finally over in Israel, it is only natural that most people are scrutinizing his successor, Naftali Bennett. But when it comes to the growing debate within the...
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