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The Jewish Voice (blog)
January 17, 2018
According to the report, President Trump is poised to announce the selection of David Schenker to serve as the State Department's Assistant Secretary ... If chosen, Schenker would replace Anne Patterson, a career State Department employee who once defended the Palestinian Authority policy of providingÃÂ ...
Haaretz
January 12, 2018
"Palestinian leaders threaten to withdraw formal recognition of Israel" by Noga Tarnopolsky: "The PLO is examining whether you can rescind ... Adviser for Top Middle East Job by John Hudson: The decision to hire David Schenker, a director at the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, wouldÃÂ ...
World Israel News
December 18, 2017
The police are preparing for what the report called a “Palestinian reception party,” which could include demonstrations and riots, the likes of which Israel has already experienced in recent days. Pence was slated to meet with the Palestinian leadership, but they announced their refusal to meet him followingÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 13, 2017
... between going after Hezbollah networks in the U.S., putting the focus on this, it's all the kernels of the beginning of a broader strategy,” said David Schenker, a former Defense Department official and senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “The administration is bringing it out little byÃÂ ...
Middle East Forum
September 11, 2017
David Schenker is Aufzien Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on September 5, 2017.
Foreign Policy (blog)
August 14, 2017
But there's little need for that kind of show this time around, said David Schenker, director of the program on Arab politics at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Cairo has no real peer threat in the region, but its borders with Libya and Sudan are increasingly causes for concern. Instead, battlingÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 22, 2017
For years, the primary destabilization driver emanated from divisions between Jordan's indigenous tribal-origin nationals—the so-called “East Bankers”—and its West Banker, Palestinian-origin citizens. More recently, backlash against official corruption and frustration with the feeble economy haveÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
September 28, 2015
An estimated 60 percent of the kingdom's citizens are of Palestinian origin—refugees (and their descendants) from the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel. Although some institutional biases in employment and electoral politics persist, Palestinians have largely been integrated into Jordanian society. SeveralÃÂ ...
CNN
February 6, 2015
And the Washington Institute's David Schenker, the Pentagon's former top policy aide on the Levant, said it may be difficult for Israel to provide even more support to bolster an already stalwart relationship. ... Israel's security services already claim to have discovered an ISIS cell of Palestinians inside Israel.
Foreign Policy
August 4, 2009
In October 1999, while researching a book on Palestinian politics, I had coffee with then Palestinian Minister of Labor Rafik Natsheh on the patio of the InterContinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan. A member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s Fatah Central Committee, Natsheh was aÃÂ ...
Middle East Forum
September 12, 2017
In spite of recent polls indicating that ordinary Palestinians increasingly recognize that Israel is here to stay, the rejectionist Palestinian ...
Middle East Forum
September 11, 2017
David Schenker is Aufzien Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on ...
Middle East Forum
September 3, 2017
Seventy years ago today, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) introduced a detailed proposal to the UN General ...
Honestreporting.com
August 29, 2017
A five-year-old Palestinian boy died after ingesting poison at Gaza's increasingly polluted beaches. According to The Independent, “More than 110 million litres of sewage is spilling into Gaza's waters a day thanks to the coastal enclave's electricity crisis.” Earlier this summer, Gaza sewage forced the ...
Breaking Energy
August 10, 2017
While the LAF is a “national institution” staffed by all Lebanon's confessions, the organization itself is beset by sectarianism. In the 1970s, when tasked to operate against Palestinian and Christian militias, the LAF fractured as Lebanon devolved into civil war. Today, the LAF remains institutionally incapable ...
Middle East Forum
July 26, 2017
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party announced Saturday that the "campaign for Jerusalem has effectively begun, ...
The American Interest
July 21, 2017
Palestinians rioted across parts of East Jerusalem and the West Bank today following Israel's decision to install metal detectors at entrances to ...
Middle East Forum
July 6, 2017
In fact, this false equivalence became even more inaccurate with time, as Israel went from one success to another and the Palestinian Authority ...
Middle East Forum
June 15, 2017
Unlike past U.S. presidents' "inside out" approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict (i.e., resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would lead to ...
Middle East Forum
June 1, 2017
Since Israel's inception in 1948, the Arab-Palestinians mark Nakba Day. Nakba, the Arabic term for catastrophe, represents much more than ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 5, 2017
The meeting was hotly anticipated, and not without reason — a president who ran on the idea of keeping Muslims out of the United States and vowed to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was to receive the king widely seen as the key moderating force in the Middle East. Wedged between Israel ...
Middle East Forum
March 26, 2017
A striking aspect of Palestinian culture is its resistance to the realities of the past. On September 22, 2016, Palestinian Authority (PA) president ...
Middle East Forum
March 14, 2017
Israel was locked into a decades-long grievance-based approach in its struggle with the Palestinian people. The memories of Oslo make it unlikely that major concessions are forthcoming. However, the Jewish state is under tremendous pressure from the UN, the EU and for the past eight years, the US, ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 22, 2017
For years, the primary destabilization driver emanated from divisions between Jordan's indigenous tribal-origin nationals—the so-called “East Bankers”—and its West Banker, Palestinian-origin citizens. More recently, backlash against official corruption and frustration with the feeble economy have ...
Breaking Energy
February 2, 2017
By David Schenker on February 02, 2017 at 10:00 AM ... And on January 22, the king discussed the issue with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas in Amman, where they “agreed to take a number of measures if the embassy is relocated,” according to the Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA).
Foreign Affairs
September 28, 2015
An estimated 60 percent of the kingdom's citizens are of Palestinian origin—refugees (and their descendants) from the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel. Although some institutional biases in employment and electoral politics persist, Palestinians have largely been integrated into Jordanian society. Several ...
Honestreporting.com
August 29, 2017
A five-year-old Palestinian boy died after ingesting poison at Gaza's increasingly ... See also this Cipher Brief interview with David Schenker onÃÂ ...
Middle East Forum
August 9, 2017
... a deeper look at the problems with Lesch's 2005 and 2012 books, see David Schenker, "The New Arabists," Commentary, November 2012.
Lawfare (blog)
February 22, 2017
By David Schenker ... indigenous tribal-origin nationals—the so-called “East Bankers”—and its West Banker, Palestinian-origin citizens.
Lawfare (blog)
February 22, 2017
By David Schenker ... indigenous tribal-origin nationals—the so-called “East Bankers”—and its West Banker, Palestinian-origin citizens.
Breaking Energy
February 2, 2017
By David Schenker on February 02, 2017 at 10:00 AM ... And on January 22, the king discussed the issue with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud AbbasÃÂ ...
TheTower.org
December 14, 2016
Israel's national water carrier will lay the groundwork next month for a pipeline that will double its annual supply to Jordan, whose limited waterÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
September 28, 2015
By David Schenker ... An estimated 60 percent of the kingdom's citizens are of Palestinian origin—refugees (and their descendants) from theÃÂ ...
Foreign Affairs
April 28, 2015
In Jordan, times are tough. First, the Kingdom has had to contend with absorbing nearly a million Syrian refugees over the past four years,ÃÂ ...
Breaking Energy
December 31, 1999
By David Schenker on August 10, 2017 at 10:00 AM ... In the 1970s, when tasked to operate against Palestinian and Christian militias, the LAF fractured asÃÂ ...
Daily Astorian
March 27, 2017
Ayman Safadi said he and his colleagues endorsed more than a dozen policy resolutions, including several on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, that are to be adopted Wednesday by heads of state of the 22-member Arab League at their annual gathering. The ...
Breaking Energy
February 2, 2017
In large part that is because the kingdom's estimated 60 percent Palestinian-origin citizens have not participated in protests focusing on corruption, the anemic economy, or, even the fifteen-year, $10 billion natural gas contract signed with Israel ...
Huffington Post
January 30, 2017
As Jordan specialist, David Schenker explains, given the effects of regional tumult on the Jordanian economy, the unemployment rate reached 15 percent with youth unemployment hitting 40 percent in 2016.
Business Insider
September 19, 2016
For example, the urban district of Zarqa, with 1.8 million people, including large numbers of Jordanians of Palestinian origin, gets 11 seats in parliament, the same number as the tribal Karak district, with just 300,000 residents, said Al-Nmour ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
September 18, 2016
For example, the urban district of Zarqa, with 1.8 million people, including large numbers of Jordanians of Palestinian origin, gets 11 seats in parliament, the same number as the tribal Karak district, with just 300,000 residents, said Al-Nmour ...
Politico
September 13, 2016
But it might be Trump," who would be far more unpredictable, said David Schenker, a Pentagon policy official in the George W. Bush administration who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
WTOP
July 1, 2016
U.S.-based analyst David Schenker said that while it's difficult to measure jihadi activity, the recent uptick "points to a threat that is not insignificant.
Arkansas Online
June 30, 2016
In Jordan, militant strongholds include poor urban areas, remote tribal towns and decades-old Palestinian refugee camps. In response to the rise of the Islamic State, Jordan toughened anti-terror laws, criminalizing ... Prison creates more bonds among ...
StarNewsOnline.com
June 29, 2016
U.S.-based analyst David Schenker said that while it's difficult to measure jihadi activity, the recent uptick "points to a threat that is not insignificant.
Haaretz
June 29, 2016
U.S.-based analyst David Schenker said that while it's difficult to measure jihadi activity, the recent uptick "points to a threat that is not insignificant.
New York Times
June 28, 2016
AMMAN, Jordan - Two dozen men charged with supporting the Islamic State group squeezed into a cage in Jordan's state security court.
Jordan Times
April 10, 2016
The Washington Institute of near East Policy Studies published last week an article by one of its renowned scholars, David Schenker, in which he analyses the cat and mouse game between the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and successive ... When the ...
Jewish Journal
December 2, 2015
On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Barak echoed Prime Minister Netanyahu that the Arab-spring-turned-Islamic-winter proved the world that the conflict is not the core problem in the Middle East.
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