President-elect Trump will likely transform U.S.-Israeli relations — and U.S. relations across the Middle East — by providing more military and diplomatic support for Israel, working to weaken Israel’s adversaries and pursuing more Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
The campaign of terror carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, succeeded in denting Israel's aura of military invincibility, while the resulting conflict in Gaza helped isolate Jerusalem on the world stage. Israel's normalization with the Gulf States, which had started to profoundly marginalize the Islamic Republic, also seemed to be a casualty of the new war. Meanwhile, timid American regional policy, and the Biden administration's overriding fear of a wider Mideast war, led to a persistent failure on Washington's part to hold Tehran accountable for its regional troublemaking.
The Taliban's expanding international profile;
Palestinian public opinion begins to shift, finally;
Islamism surges in Somalia;
Flashpoint: West Africa
A Houthi headache...;
...Amid muddled U.S. policy;
Sweden and Turkey turn the page;
Islamist trouble in Russia's heartland
Bangladesh frees terror leader...;
...As worries swirl over Dhaka's direction;
Germany expels Iranian religious leader;
A Hamas rebound in northern Gaza?;
Jordan's new political balance;
Preparing for a northern front