Efraim Inbar, the president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, talks to Mike and Marshall about the conflict between Hamas and Israel. Who’s winning? Who’s losing? Where do we go from here? His answers were bleak yet he remains an optimist.
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The Biden foreign policy team
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A guide to the Biden administration’s first moves and initial set of senior officials.
By Bob Silverman
(May 20, 2021 / Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security) Interest in the new U.S. foreign policy team in Israel and elsewhere in the region is strong and growing, following the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence and Biden administration responses. What follows is a guide to the group and to some of the individuals in it, with a focus on their impact on U.S. policy.
President Biden’s foreign policy people are members in good standing of the Washington foreign policy establishment. This establishment is composed of like-minded former government officials, Democrats, Republicans and independents. They sit in office suites throughout Washington, D.C., and work as lobbyists, strategic advisers on government affairs, consultants, lawyers, industry association officials and think tank scholars, with an occasional investment banker fro
If current Mideast violence a test, some experts say Biden is failing
May 21, 2021
(JNS) The Biden administration has come under withering criticism in the United States and Israel for its poor handling of the current situation in the Middle East. On Tuesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price failed to mention Hamas or Islamic Jihad as terrorist organizations targeting Israeli civilians in his statement to the press. “Israel has the right to defend itself and to respond to rocket attacks,” Price said in his daily briefing. “The Palestinian people also have the right to safety and security just as Israelis do.”
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