Robert Satloff is the Segal executive director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and its Howard P. Berkowitz chair in U.S. Middle East Policy.
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“Clever” is an appropriate term for the counterintuitive essay titled “To Save Itself from International Isolation, Israel Must Hold On to the West Bank.” An argument that rejects solutions to the Isr...
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Committed to developing and supporting the intellectual, religious, and political leaders of the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
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I am grateful to Michael Doran, David Pryce-Jones, and Michael Marrus for their kind, generous words about my essay, “ The Jews Will Have to Wait ,” and for endorsing at least two of its three core ar...
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In 1942 a band of Algerian Jews risked all to help the Allies invade North Africa. Then Washington betrayed them. Thus was born modern American Middle East policy.
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Arthur Herman is right : Israel is hot—diplomatically, not just meteorologically. Old adversaries are burying the hatchet; new friendships are blossoming; and suitors around the world are jockeying f...
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Years ago, when I was teaching , I regularly subjected my students to a lecture titled “The Four I’s.” Confronted with an essay using the words “impossible,” “inconceivable,” “inevitable,” or “irrever...
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Like fashion and food, political analysis of the Middle East has its fads, too. At one time, there was the “days are numbered” fad, as in “King Hussein’s days are numbered” or “the Saudis’ days are n...
