Don’t be fooled by rhetoric. Only actions matter. Nothing on the ground has changed. There is NO U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. The U.S. embassy remains in Tel Aviv. There is no physical address for the new U.S. embassy to go to. Trump’s declaration is hollow. Its designed to mislead. There isn’t even a definition of […]
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America’s Major Challenges in Middle East Policy, 2017
By Juan Cole (juancole.com) The incoming Trump administration is riven by a profound division between those determined to avoid deep entanglements in the Middle East, such as Donald J. Trump himself, and the hawks he is putting in key positions, who desperately want to overthrow the Islamic Republic of Iran. This division is made more […]