Barack Obama

A weekly selection of opinions and analyses from the Arab media around the world.

“The Biden Administration is setting the stage to abandon Israel," the non-partisan Foundation for Defense of Democracies observed.

Almost every Mideast policy implemented by the Biden administration, and Obama before him, has weakened Israel and strengthened her enemies.

The newly appointed ambassador to Israel has drawn praise from both right and left. But his record in the Obama administration should raise concerns.

The ex-president wrote that "any Israeli military strategy that ignores the human costs could ultimately backfire."

Tafari Campbell, 45, was the subject of a two-day search after a paddle boarder was seen struggling and going under the water in Edgartown Great Pond.

This time, the likely spoilers are known in politics as useful idiots – persons knowingly pursuing lost causes to the benefit of others. In this case, the likely beneficiary will be Trump. 

“Rumors about a nuclear deal, interim or otherwise, are false and misleading,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists in June.

Israel and a bipartisan consensus of Congress and the American people wanted a nuclear deal that ultimately ended Iran’s nuclear weapon program forever.

The Biden administration continues to cause cracks and fissures in the relationship between the two nations.