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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

Aaron David Miller

Left to Right: Ehud Barak, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000. (William J. Clinton Presidential Library/ Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
January 22, 2021, 2:50 pm
Room where it didn’t happen: US mediators reveal failed Israel-PLO peace talks
In ‘The Human Factor,’ key American negotiators answer Israeli director Dror Moreh’s pointed questions about how a peace plan spanning two administrations crashed and burned
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., flanked by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
June 30, 2020, 2:32 am
As annexation looms, most leading Republican lawmakers remain silent
While 116 Republican House members, including Minority Leader McCarthy, support move, top senators like McConnell, Graham and Romney have kept quiet
By Eric Cortellessa
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 19, 2019, 3:23 pm
Pompeo’s settlements speech: Empty rhetoric or prelude to annexation?
Experts say new US policy less dramatic than it sounds as it simply reinstates Reagan-era ambiguity on settlements’ legal status. Others warn it prejudges final status of West Bank
By Raphael Ahren
A large billboard depicting US President Donald Trump and PM Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of the Likud election campaign, at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 4, 2019 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 9, 2019, 2:53 am
Trouble in paradise? Trump conspicuously absent from Netanyahu’s reelection bid
US president has yet to announce dramatic steps to help the prime minister, in contrast to the weeks before April’s vote. Worse, he’s not just MIA, he’s flirting with Iran
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, on September 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
June 1, 2019, 7:46 am
With new elections in Israel, Trump’s Mideast plan hits another hitch
Former US diplomats and experts say that time is working against the proposal as the US election campaign will be in full swing by the time Israel has a government
By Eric Cortellessa
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Republican US Senator Lindsey Graham, right, and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman visit the border between Israel and Syria at the Golan Heights, Monday, March 11, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)
March 22, 2019, 3:41 am
By recognizing Golan, Trump seen ‘solving’ a problem that doesn’t exist
The status quo on the plateau, in which Israel’s control was neither recognized nor challenged, will likely be upended by president’s move, and not in Israel’s favor, experts warn
By Raphael Ahren
Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
October 11, 2018, 4:41 pm
Israel’s DC envoy refuses to meet J Street, snubs other left-wing Jewish groups
Unlike his predecessor, Ron Dermer steadfastly refuses to sit down with liberal advocacy organization, which accuses him of acting more like a GOP operative than a diplomat
By Eric Cortellessa
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Washington, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
April 4, 2018, 1:30 pm
Just how groundbreaking was the Saudi crown prince’s comment on Israel?
While some fete MBS’s affirmation of Israelis’ ‘right to have their own land’ as unprecedented, experts note that normalization is still far off
By Raphael Ahren
Jared Kushner at a White House meeting with US President Donald Trump, January 11, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
March 1, 2018, 7:28 pm
Kushner’s diminished security clearance hurts, but won’t destroy, his peace push
Former US negotiators say president’s son-in-law losing top-secret clearance weakens him abroad, but that won’t be the factor that makes or breaks his peace push
By Eric Cortellessa
US President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Ronald Reagan Building December 18, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)
December 19, 2017, 7:01 pm
Trump strategy paper has good and less good news for Israel, but may not matter
Administration’s new document says Israel ‘is not the cause’ of Mideast turmoil, but it lacks the Obama-era pledge to maintain Israel’s military edge
By Eric Cortellessa
President Donald Trump speaks to the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
September 20, 2017, 7:01 am
Omitting Mideast peace from speech, Trump opts again for the unorthodox
US leaders usually mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; this year, the president was mum on what is one of his self-declared major foreign policy objectives
By Eric Cortellessa
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
August 31, 2017, 2:21 pm
Trump determination to dent Iran nuke deal leaves experts scratching heads
US president has signaled he will declare Tehran in violation of the pact despite intel saying otherwise, which some say could lead to the entire deal unraveling
By Eric Cortellessa
US President Donald Trump embraces Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after making a joint statement in Jerusalem, Monday, May 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
August 11, 2017, 6:28 am
Netanyahu’s legal woes hardly affect Trump’s peace push, say ex-Mideast negotiators
Two veteran US diplomats say PM’s possible indictment won’t undercut US attempts because no process is yet in place, though Bibi may be a bit more distracted
By Eric Cortellessa
US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
August 3, 2017, 9:06 am
The Temple Mount crisis ended Trump’s Palestinian honeymoon. The Kushner tape made things worse
Early flattery from Ramallah, as the president held back on moving the embassy and criticized settlements, has given way to increasingly public accusations that the White House is siding with Israel
By Raphael Ahren
A handout photo made available by the Russian Foreign Ministry on May 10, 2017 shows US President Donald J. Trump (C) speaking with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Russian Ambassador to the US Sergei Kislyak during a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC. (HO / RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY / AFP)
May 24, 2017, 2:52 am
Some Jewish groups welcome the scandals slowing the Trump agenda
Reflecting on the troubles plaguing the White House, liberal groups see ‘positive’ ramifications
By Ron Kampeas
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