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Though Israel remains opposed to Palestinian independence, 2020 marked the year of its acceptance in the region.

He was successful because only an iconoclastic president could have rejected false assumptions and failed strategies.

Biden will shift focus in the Middle East, but Israeli-Arab normalization will continue.

How Israel’s agreements this year with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates made the Middle East more volatile.

Israel’s pacts with the UAE and Bahrain go far beyond the tenuous “cold peace” with Egypt and Jordan. They could even help end the conflict with the Palestinians.

But the White House ceremony is marred by events back in Israel, including his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.

A political program that does not envision statehood for the Palestinians could reverse the Gulf Arab states’ tentative warming toward Israel.

Kushner’s plan aims to divide Palestinians from their leaders but fails to recognize that the people already resent their corrupt leadership—while failing to place any similar pressure on an Israeli prime minister under indictment.

European leaders should not lend support to a Trump administration plan that dangles economic carrots to Palestinians while entrenching the Israeli occupation.

Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt’s peace plan may not be the deal of the century, but there are interim steps that U.S. officials and Arab leaders could take to help stabilize the West Bank and Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu is building ties with anti-Iran Arab leaders from Riyadh to Doha and betting that a peace deal is no longer a necessary prerequisite for normalizing diplomatic ties.

Many Arab rulers have revealed their moral bankruptcy by rekindling ties with Syria and embracing a war criminal.

By allowing a refugee soccer player to remain stranded in Thailand, soccer’s governing body is scoring another own goal.

But strategic dialogues don’t come cheap.

A Bahraini delegation's trip to Israel is the latest sign of the Gulf monarchies' burgeoning alliance with the Jewish state.

Rainbow flags, political challengers, and citizenship laws are all in Cairo’s crosshairs.

America's military is scattered around the world fighting a battle they can't afford to lose — and don't have the resources to win.

Sen. Bob Corker has no qualms playing bad cop as Tillerson works to salvage Gulf relations from a bitter Qatar feud.