The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer

  By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome, Thank you for joining me today.  If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Paid subscribers can access the full archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall. You can contribute by clicking here . To listen to the podcast or watch the video, please click here . Thank you for your support and loyalty, take care, and best wishes. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Israel’s ultra-nationalists and ultra-conservatives have turned Israel into a ‘haven’ for some Jews rather than all Jews. Not only by encouraging an intolerant, supremacist domestic environment hostile to vigorous public debate and equality for all but also by endorsing the far-right’s flirt with language and imagery that risks stoking ant-Semitism, and efforts to rewrite th...

  By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome,  Thank you for joining me today.  If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based  analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription.  Paid subscribers can access the full  archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall.  You can contribute by clicking  here. To listen to the podcast or watch the video, plese click  here. Thank you for your support and loyalty,  take care, and best wishes.  US President Donald J. Trump risks putting relations with Saudi Arabia and other US partners in the Middle East on a knife’s edge, sending the region into a tailspin, and complicating, if not undermining, negotiations to make the three-phase Gaza ceasefire permanent rather than temporary by   advocating  the removal to Egypt and Jordan of 1.5 milli...

  By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome, Thank you for joining me today. If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Paid subscribers can access the full archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall. You can contribute by clicking here . To listen to the podcast or watch the video, please click here.   Thank you for your support and loyalty, take care, and best wishes. US President Donald J. Trump has foreign governments, domestic constituencies, journalists, and pundits running in circles as they attempt to identify his Middle East policy. The confusion is evident in contradictory responses to Mr. Trump’s election by some of his pro-Israel supporters and early polling in the Middle East. In a twist of irony, pro-Israel conservatives are campaigning against some of Mr. Trump’s ...

  Credit: Doctors of the World By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome, Thank you for joining me today. If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Paid subscribers can access the full archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall. You can contribute by clicking here . Thank you for your support and loyalty, take care, and best wishes.   US President-elect Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may soon diverge in their approaches to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet, the Trump administration is set, as a ceasefire takes effect in Gaza, to cement suppression of criticism of the Jewish state, a pillar of Israel’s long-standing effort to manipulate US and international public opinion and squash public censure. ...

  By James M. Dorsey Hi and welcome. Thank you for joining me today.  If you appreciate hard-hitting, fact-based analysis, please consider upgrading to a paid subscription. Paid subscribers can access the full archive, exclusive posts, and polling. They can leave comments, join debates, and know they are supporting independent writing, reporting, and analysis that lets the chips fall where they fall. You can contribute by clicking here. To listen to the podcast or watch the video, please click here Thank you for your support and loyalty, take care, and best wishes. Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu may welcome two Middle East policy goals articulated by US President-elect Donald J. Trump in response to the Gaza ceasefire but may not like what it will take to achieve them. The same is true for the Palestinians, including the West Bank-based, internationally recognised Palestine Authority and Hamas. The ceasefire demonstrated to Mr. Netanyahu that Mr. Trump can twist his...