Thursday, 3 March 2016

Shifting U.S. interests in the Middle East (Daniel L. Byman, Brookings)

A woman looks at a map displaying the former Gush Katif Jewish settlements in Gaza, at a visitor's center in Nitzan near Ashod, Israel, that commemorates the former settlements August 10, 2015. A decade on from Israel's unilateral withdrawal of around 8,500 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip the legacy of that August 2005 "disengagement" still provokes angry debate in Israeli society. Picture taken August 9, 2015. To match ISRAEL-GAZA/DISENGAGEMENT-INSIGHT REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Regardless of the administration, the United States has long reiterated a consistent set of interests in the Middle East that have guided U.S. policy in the region. The Middle East is in turmoil, and now U.S. interests are in flux as well. As a result, and despite what you might hear on the campaign trail, future administrations might follow the President Obama’s path and be wary of greater intervention.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2016/03/02-shifting-us-interests-middle-east-byman

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