Are U.S. Efforts to Restrain Israel Part of a Plan to Make a Grand Bargain with Saudi Arabia?
A scenario built on wishful thinking.
May 13, 2024
Are U.S. Efforts to Restrain Israel Part of a Plan to Make a Grand Bargain with Saudi Arabia?
A scenario built on wishful thinking.
Trying to make sense of Joe Biden’s threat to withhold arms from Israel if it attempts a full-scale operation in Rafah, Gerald Steinberg argues that the president is not primarily motivated by humanitarian concerns or by a desire to court hard-left and Arab-American voters, whom he has most likely already lost. It’s difficult to say with any certainty what is in the minds of the president and his closest advisers, but Steinberg’s alternative explanation seems plausible:
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