Annelle Sheline

1 month ago | quincyinst.org | Trita Parsi |Annelle Sheline

U.S. involvement in a Saudi–Israel deal must serve U.S. interests: Reducing the U.S. military footprint in the Middle East while reimagining America’s role in the region by supporting an inclusive and sustainable regional security architecture. Such an architecture enables regional states to take responsibility for their own security, rather than relying on the United States.

Jan 16, 2025 | quincyinst.org | Annelle Sheline

Help us achieve a world where peace is the norm and war the exception. The Quincy Institute is a transpartisan “action tank” and communications project, established to challenge the decades-long obsession of U.S. foreign policy decision makers with global military dominance and war.

Jan 15, 2025 | responsiblestatecraft.org | Annelle Sheline

The achievement of a Gaza hostage deal and temporary ceasefire ahead of Trump's inauguration demonstrates the power that the U.S. had all along. The Biden administration simply refused to use American leverage to push Netanyahu, despite U.S. officials’ assertions that they were “working tirelessly towards a ceasefire.” In his remarks about the deal, and in his response to journalists afterwards, President Biden sought to take full credit.

Oct 29, 2024 | dawnmena.org | Annelle Sheline

Editor's note: This article is adapted from a paper presented at a policy workshop on the possible U.S.-Saudi security agreement, which DAWN co-hosted with Georgetown University's Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding. In a televised speech in mid-September, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman declared that Saudi Arabia "will not stop its tireless work towards the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Oct 8, 2024 | arabcenterdc.org | Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan |Tamara Kharroub |Annelle Sheline

October 7, 2024 marks the one-year since the Hamas attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people and precipitated the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on Gaza that thus far has killed almost 42,000 Palestinians and injured some 96,000 others. It is also a year since Hezbollah began what it called a war of support for Hamas, with the goal of alleviating the pressure on the group and on the Gaza Strip as a whole by attacking Israeli positions on the Lebanon-Israel border.