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There's this sort of bond between Israeli politicians and American politicians, biden's views began to change.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The question is not whether there is anything United States can do. The question is whether or not United States is willing and able to do them, we could come up with any number of creative, sometimes very tough-minded ideas, that the administration could embrace. The question is will they, and so far it seems to be they're highly risk averse even in the face of this intensified conflict.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There has never been a presidency in modern times when America’s dysfunction has been so fully on display.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It works very well with Evangelicals. It works very well with about a quarter of the American Jewish community, it works with conservative Republicans. And these are issues that are highly volatile and play extremely well.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The itinerary and the absence of a largely substantive agenda suggests to me that this has much more to do with Pompeo's aspirations in 2024 than the realities of what is being confronted in 2020, particularly with respect to the Israeli piece of it, it works very well with Evangelicals. It works very well with about a quarter of the American Jewish community, it works with conservative Republicans. And these are issues that are highly volatile and play extremely well.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
From the very get-go, the public messaging has raised all kinds of questions about whether or not there was sufficient motivation to launch an attack to kill arguable the second most powerful and important man in Iran.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
President Donald Trump did this primarily for reasons of President Donald Trump own domestic politics.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I've never seen anything like it, frankly, with respect to bipartisan consensus.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is completely out of sequence because the Israeli-Palestinian issue is primarily driven by historical wounds and overlapping claims to land and sacred space.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Mike Pompeo has been very tough on Iran publicly and as secretary of state would manage the negotiations if there were any, but Mike Pompeo'd unlikely push back hard against those who were recommending a military strike. In the end, the biggest constraint against one is The President The President.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The President has demonstrated a preternatural risk-aversion when it comes to use of military force and wants to get out of unwinnable old wars and not get into new ones, in contrast, John Bolton has been a hawk on Iran John Bolton entire professional life.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If the political part of this plan turns out to be a betrayal of the Palestinian narrative, it exposes Abdullah in a way that no other Arab leader is exposed.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's very important, the King has a fundamental stake in making sure that whatever Jared Kushner is proposing doesn't expose Jared Kushner.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
MBS believes President Donald Trump has President Donald Trump back. There's not a shred of empirical evidence to suggest that President Donald Trump doesn't.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If the President Donald Trump administration were really serious about Iran, that would be the overwhelming priority, and it wouldn't have granted waivers to eight countries allowing them to import Iranian oil, i think this is a question of one hand not knowing what the other hand is doing.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
This is not the first administration to have enabled Saudi Arabia and given them wide berth, it's just that Bruce Riedel have a senior Saudi leadership that has been uncharacteristically risk-ready and frankly reckless.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If Saudi Arabia kidnapped or killed Jamal Kashoggi, Saudi Arabia's on them, there's no direct causality, but the question remains, to what degree the Donald Trump administration's acquiescence to Saudi Arabia emboldened the Saudi leadership to think it can do what it likes, both in repressing dissent at home and pursuing policies abroad that frankly in my judgment... have been undermining Aaron David Miller national interests.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
And that ensures virtually no deal and the likelihood of violence over Jerusalem in the future.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This might be the case where Trump applies a little honey now to show the Israelis he’s the most pro-Israel president ever, and then applies a little vinegar later.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I don't think there are any traps that will be set, the question is whether he generates them on his own. And gets out of his own way. And there's no way to predict that. As carefully orchestrated and choreographed as these trips may be, there's always the possibility of a stumble or an inappropriate remark.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Someone clearly saw the Vatican, Israel and Saudi Arabia as a broad stage where the President could demonstrate a certain degree of unity and ecumenism and go to places where he could be guaranteed a high degree of symbolism when it came to his first presidential trip, the trip provides a dramatic stage on which to act out his presidential role.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There's no school for president, the issue for me is, is Aaron David Miller learning ? That's the key question.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
The way this administration does business is highly unorthodox in so many respects.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Whatever the aspirations on the campaign trail, they have given way to the realities of what it takes to conduct American foreign policy in a cruel and unforgiving world, the way this administration does business is highly unorthodox in so many respects.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
It’s a perfect storm of isolationism, muscular nationalism, with a dash of pragmatism and realism.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He is idiosyncratically different from any candidate seeking the Republican or Democratic nomination when it comes to how he talks about Israel.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is a risk-averse president who sets red lines he doesn’t enforce, there’s not a lot of inclination for heroic initiatives in what’s left.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We haven't yet found a way -- and I think it's going to be extremely difficult to hermetically seal the nation, abroad or here at home, against these kinds of attacks.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is a long war and you we have just seen maybe a very significant turn and escalation in that war, we haven't yet found a way -- and I think it's going to be extremely difficult to hermetically seal the nation, abroad or here at home, against these kinds of attacks.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
He is going to be hammered -- and he already is on the campaign trail by Republicans who argue, 'See, Mr. President, you identified this as a JV organization, you are risk averse. What if this had been an American aircraft?
Found on CNN 8 years ago
How does a presidential aspirant like Joe Biden reach for a bold American foreign policy without fundamentally distancing himself from his boss? It’s tough.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The real deal here is not desperation. It's imprecision and a rush to conclude an agreement that will essentially leave too much ambiguity, and not the creative kind.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't see the coalition fundamentally altering what is already an extremely tense and corrosive relationship between the prime minster and the president.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The Russians know, and so do the Israelis, that Iran has sort of been kosherized by the fact that it's in the negotiating process.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
They clearly disapprove of this, you would think that the more appropriate comment would have been: 'We don't think this is helpful.'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Let’s not forget the U.S. needs every friend it has in the Middle East.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The meetings may run better, the process may run better, but the fundamental challenges to the policy remain the same no matter who sits at the top of the Pentagon, nATURAL TENSION.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
You have a dysfunctional relationship between Netanyahu and Obama.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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