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2 weeks ago | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne |Dana El Kurd |Imad K. Harb |Khalil E. Jahshan
Last week President Donald Trump ended a three-country trip to the Arabian Gulf—Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates—where he signed lucrative arms and business deals and got commitments from his hosts to make huge investments in the American economy.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne
The November 5 presidential election is likely to have major implications for US foreign policy, as it pits a centrist and robust internationalist candidate (Vice President Kamala Harris) against an inward-looking, nativist naysayer (former President Donald Trump). For the Middle East, the outcome will have an important impact on how the United States does business in that region.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Charles W. Dunne
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Russia and China in the Gaza Crisis: Trying to Beat Washington at Its Own Game [1] The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Localización: IEMed: Mediterranean yearbook, ISSN 1698-3068, ISSN-e 2013-3812, Nº. 2024, 2024, págs. 134-139 Idioma: inglés EnlacesTexto completo
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne
“This war must end.”“I will get that settled and fast.”That was Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, respectively, the two main US presidential candidates, on the Gaza war during their televised debate on September 10. That was as much detail as the audience heard on this critical US foreign policy issue. Harris stated the obvious; Trump offered nonsense. Yes, the war must stop.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Khalil E. Jahshan |Daniel Brumberg |Charles W. Dunne |Amy Hawthorne
The assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life on July 13 may very well have an impact on the upcoming presidential election. According to polls, Trump was in a statistical dead heat with his Democratic rival, President Joe Biden, who is himself under scrutiny following a disappointing performance during a debate with the Republican nominee last June 27.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne
As Israel’s devastating Gaza invasion wears on, tensions between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are spiking, endangering the “special relationship” and promising political turmoil in both countries. Almost six months on, the conflict is now threatening to claim some unexpected casualties, such as the US-Israel relationship, whatever sympathy Israel enjoys in the international community, and just possibly Biden’s re-election.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne
Like most Arab countries, Egypt was stunned by the conflagration ignited by last October’s Hamas attack inside southern Israel and subsequent Israeli onslaught against Gaza. To Cairo, the war has delivered not just a vast humanitarian crisis, but the potential destruction of the regional order from which Egypt has benefited politically and economically since the signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1978.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne
It wasn’t that long ago that Russia and China seemed to dominate the Middle East, and the United States was on the brink of relegation to the sidelines. Russia has parlayed its alliance with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Iran, and Hezbollah into a victory, of sorts, in the Syrian civil war, and used that victory as an advertisement to juice Russian arms sales and as a platform to expand its power in the eastern Mediterranean. Weapons sales to Egypt and Saudi Arabia have followed.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
arabcenterdc.org | Charles W. Dunne
At this point in its term of office, the Biden Administration had hoped for a markedly different Middle East. Under American tutelage, the Trump-era Abraham Accords would have ideally widened the circle of peace among Arab states and Israel, effectively ending the Arab-Israeli conflict and purportedly bringing stability and prosperity to a region sorely in need of it.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
cnn.com | Charles W. Dunne
Editor’s Note: Charles Dunne is a former US Foreign Service officer. He is a nonresident fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC and a nonresident scholar at the Middle East Institute. He teaches at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
