We now know that the long-awaited Trump peace plan is going to be presented very soon.  Without knowing what is in it, it is hard to evaluate it…

Donald Trump is not an internationalist.  He engages with the world but dislikes international institutions.  His speeches to the UN don’t…

  It feels like we are entering unchartered waters in the Middle East.  If there were rules or norms that seemed to limit what actions…

On September 14, drones and cruise missiles struck Saudi Arabia’s most important oil-processing facility, at Abqaiq. The attacks don’t…

 After developing their peace plan for more than two and a half years, there are now reports that the Trump administration intends to present it…

Iran has now exceeded the amount of low enriched uranium that it can have stockpiled as part of the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal.  Its Foreign…

Tensions are rising in the Middle East generally and especially in the Gulf.  The Trump Administration decision to end the waivers for eight…

    The United States and Saudi Arabia have had a relationship with ups and downs over the last eight decades.  Beginning with the…

The Trump Administration continues to say that it intends to come out with its peace plan soon, presumably after the April 9th Israeli election. How…

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