Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
How Stockholm and Ankara can move past their turbulent month.
In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu began another term as Prime Minister in December. Meanwhile, violence has broken out in the Palestinian territories, and US Secretary of State Blinken has made a trip to Jerusalem.
ut more likely, if the worst of the right-wing extremists’ agenda comes to pass, the Biden administration and Netanyahu will enter a bad patch far worse than the Obama years. And Biden—with no choice but to push back—may well find himself in the middle of a nasty fight that he doesn’t want or need.
On the trip it's going to be very difficult for Blinken to get steps by both sides to deescalate.
Aaron David Miller on The Briefing with Steve Scully.
New restrictions have been imposed on female clothing in Yemen, but the country’s heritage tells a more complicated story.
In a year dominated by the rhetoric of defending democracy, EU democracy support policies were adjusted in important ways to align with the new geopolitical context. However, the union also seemed to treat commitments in this area as second-order priorities compared to security.
The problem is that there's no chance right now of a political horizon, and this government is simply unwilling and unable to articulate one.
Fatima Manji of Channel 4 News spoke to Aaron David Miller who was Middle East Negotiator for the US State Department during the presidential terms of Bill Clinton and George W Bush, and began by talking about how recent changes in the make-up of the Israeli government might have led to today’s attack.