Harris and Trump’s foreign-policy aims in the Middle East proceed from the same incentive structures and presuppositions about U.S. supremacy.
Sarah Leah Whitson
Sarah Leah Whitson is the executive director of Democracy for the Arab World Now. Previously, she served as executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division from 2004 to 2020.
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Breaking Away From Secret Concessions in the Middle East
Saudi Arabia is exploiting great-power competition to obtain security commitments from the U.S. This should be rejected.
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America’s Middle East ‘Withdrawal’ Breathes Its Last Breath
What was once a policy of disengagement has now become a policy of far more dangerous entanglement.
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The Israel-Palestine Narrative Has Evolved
How words like ‘apartheid,’ ‘land theft,’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ have entered the mainstream conversation
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Now Is the Time to End Our 30-Year War in Iraq
The country is broken, but U.S. troops remain.