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Reacting to Trump administration blocking of a UN investigation into Israeli military's killings of Palestinians, Col. Larry Wilkerson says the United States is “in the back pocket of Israel like we have never been associated with any other country in the world.” Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government ...
A few days after Donald Trump was inaugurated, Jared Kushner sat down to decide how to reshape the Middle East. During the campaign, Trump had promised a sweeping transformation of the region. Steve Bannon, Trump's senior aide and ideologist at the time, told me recently, “Our plan was to ...

Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the embassy to Jerusalem was the first time any American leader since Bill Clinton had dared to reject the Palestinian veto on US Middle East policy. Tillerson supported maintaining the PA's veto. As a result, he all but openly opposed ...
On the Democratic Party side: Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton. .... the Middle East and The Israel Project – that do nothing else, such as watching who comments on C-SPAN every morning and then making a big deal out of it if it's not particularly happy about U.S. Middle East policy.
Itamar Rabinovich, who previously served as Israel's ambassador to the United States during the Clinton administration and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., told JNS that “in terms of atmospherics, Netanyahu had an excellent ...
Itamar Rabinovich, who previously served as Israel's ambassador to the United States during the Clinton administration and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., told JNS that, “In terms of atmospherics, Netanyahu had an excellent ...

Itamar Rabinovich, who previously served as Israel's ambassador to the United States during the Clinton administration and is currently a senior fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., told JNS that “in terms of atmospherics, Netanyahu had an excellent ...
Before he became the latest subject of intrigue relating to Mueller's probe, Nader ran a magazine on Middle East policy and positioned himself as a ... Nader's writers also interviewed world leaders such as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and a who's who of Middle Eastern leaders, including Yasser Arafat ...
He seemed then to be part of a wave of young, attractive American-style politicians around the democratic world, such as Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Gerhard Schroder, even if ideologically he was much closer to Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Helmut Kohl. Over the decades, he has paid a great ...
The infamous affair between then-president Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky took place in the days before Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. But that did not stop ... The bill introduced Friday is sponsored by two Middle East policy leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives — Reps.
Analyzing the potential consequences of the embassy move, she stressed that this is only one of the US Middle East policy points. “Donald Trump provided very strong support to Israel. ... This law was signed in October 1995 by US President Bill Clinton. For more than 20 years, the law implementation was ...
“He is a very influential player in shaping Middle East policy; he has direct access to the president,” said Friedman's predecessor, Daniel Shapiro, who served ... Veterans of U.S.-Israel relations note that except for perhaps Martin Indyk, who had a close relationship with Bill Clinton, a direct line between the ...
To the extent the Trump administration has a discernible Middle East strategy, it is to contain and confront Iran. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and President Donald Trump himself have all denounced Iran's regional activities. (In February ...
In 1995, President Bill Clinton signed the Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act, which formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. ... Moving the embassy has been a “third rail” for Middle East policy because of fears it would give Iran and other anti-American, anti-Israel forces a reason to go after ...
The Trump administration's passive and incoherent Middle East policy has also fostered moral hazard with some of our closest partners in the region, as seen in the recent actions by Saudi Arabia to use threats and psychological warfare to pressure Iran's partner in Lebanon, Hezbollah. The move appears ...
Long ago, I was a strong supporter of Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas, in part because of his early willingness – as a Bible Belt Democrat – to seek compromises on government policies linked to abortion. I was even more hopeful about the future of a young politico from Tennessee, Sen. Al Gore, whose pro-life ...
Five former U.S. presidents, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama attend a concert at Texas A&M University ... Although he said all 22 members of the Carter family voted for Barack Obama, he took a swipe at the latter's Middle East policy: “He made some very ...

Aides to President Donald Trump were in deep talks about how to defuse tensions between Qatar and other Arab nations when the door to the secure room at the White House burst open. The urgent message: Trump had just tweeted about Qatar. One adviser read the tweet aloud and with that, the ...
As Kerry was preparing to make the speech, the administration's Middle East policy was trolled on Twitter by the next president. “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect,” Donald Trump tweeted. “They used to have a great friend in the US, but not anymore.
On the Democratic Party side: Joe Biden, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton. .... and Logic About the Middle East and The Israel Project—that do nothing else, such as watching who comments on C-SPAN every morning and then making a big deal out of it if it's not particularly happy about U.S. Middle East policy.
And Mueller's investigators are looking into how he may have funneled Emirati money to a top Trump fundraiser to influence the White House's Middle East policy. ... He served as an informal envoy to Syria for the Clinton administration and worked as a negotiator to help free US hostages in Lebanon. In the ...
Risen and Miller reported that Tenet had begun briefings for Clinton administration officials on the new CIA assessment in December 1999 shortly after the document was completed, citing “several U.S. officials” familiar with it. The Tenet briefings made no mention of any evidence of a bomb-making ...


 

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