why trump’s middle east plan can’t work

The best the Israeli leader could do was post an illicitly filmed video on YouTube of the foreign ministers of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates discussing Israel. ... As for the United States’ European allies, they mostly sent low-level representatives, whose fate there..

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ottoman cosmopolitanism and the myth of the sectarian middle east

European colonialism abruptly interrupted and reshaped a vital anti-sectarian Arab cultural and political path that had begun to take shape during the last century of Ottoman rule. Despite European colonialism, the ecumenical ideal, and the dream of creating sovereign societies..

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