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An agreement reached Thursday by the governments of Israel and the United Arab Emirates has the potential to alter the diplomatic dynamics of the Middle East drastically, but experts say the long-term consequences depend heavily on how it is implemented and how other...
United States President Donald Trump is expected to soon release his long-awaited Middle East plan - more than two years after his administration began drafting its vision for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The policy proposal has been...
From the outset of his presidency, Donald Trump has relished tossing aside long-held and bipartisan fixtures of U.S. foreign policy he felt were no longer working – no more so, it has seemed, than in his handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That impulse was...
Despite facing indictment on corruption charges and a strong challenge from a center-left coalition, Benjamin Netanyahu is heading toward an unprecedented fifth term as Israeli prime minister. David Makovsky, Director of the Project on Arab-Israel Relations at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen...
Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about Vice President Mike Pence's upcomoing visit to the Middle East after the Trump administration’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Kurtzer-Ellenbogen also addressed the importance of the trip and the expectations for the visit to neighboring Arab nations.
The White House pushed back Wednesday after representatives from 57 Muslim-majority nations gathered in Turkey to criticize the Trump administration’s policy shift on Jerusalem and demand that the city’s east be recognized as the capital of a “State of Palestine.”
President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has left Palestinian leaders questioning the United States’ ability to effectively spearhead any future peace negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Trump’s announcement has also sparked...
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President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel on Wednesday and directed the State Department to begin planning to move the embassy there, upending decades of U.S. policy on one of the most contentious regional conflicts in the world.
Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen is the director of Arab-Israeli programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. This article was published as a part of an hbs North America series on US-Israel relations.