Hamas Has Started a New Phase of Its War with Israel
It seized on earlier unrest to show its power.
May 12, 2021
But the Islamic Republic will never bring stability.
In a comprehensive analysis, Tony Badran and Michael Doran argue that the Biden administration’s Middle East policy aims to reinforce and to build upon that of Barack Obama, which they term “the realignment.” As Doran explained in a 2015 essay for Mosaic, the Obama White House’s goal was to promote the interests of Iran, against those of Israel and Saudi Arabia—America’s traditional allies—in order to bring “balance” to the Middle East. This approach is bound to fail, as indeed the events of the last few years have already proved:
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A story wildly distorted by feckless reporting.
But the Islamic Republic will never bring stability.
Modern Orthodoxy needs more robust arguments for its positions on men, women, and marriage.
Right and left sides of a single face.